I just purchased a 97 civic hatch shell 5spd. but the engine harness i received is from a 97 civic automatic and it has the extra plug at the ecu for the auto stuff. can i use this engine harness? Please help me!


Modified by Skunk U at 5:16 AM 5/22/2008

 

help!

 

it might work but i would get the right harness...wiring is a disaster when you have the right stuff, imagine when its diff....good luck

 

yea, you would have to get a 5sp harness. The auto harness wont plug in to the 5sp tranny. if you know what you are doing you could splice or run new wires.

 

You can use the harness but it's a mess unless you pull out all the unnecessary wires. Only wire you'd need to run for the trans is the reverse light wire. Also, auto harness will cause a few issues in the car since they use a neutral safety switch; the auto body harness is also completely different from a 5 speed. It would be a lot easier to just get a 5 speed harness from a 96-98 Civic. I wouldn't worry about getting one for VTEC as it's easy to run the wires in the harness since the whole thing is out of the car...

Ryan