Hi everyone i am noob in cars, can you help me. i got a 95 year honda civic coupe EX , i bought it on cragislist, and it has an engine from i guess 98 honda civic HX VTEC (thats what the prev owner told me) i dont know how to check what engine is there now...The problem is that some ******** stole the ECU in my car ... (the one which is under the passenger sides dashboard) now i dont know which one to buy - for 95 or for the engine(98 i guess) one ... Please help me guys ... i already got a 165$ ticket for parking on the pedestrian walk ... it [freak]ing difficult to find a parking pushing a car at 8 a.m!!!!!!

 

whats the engine code on the block?

 

Where is it? i can't find it. i see only P2J-5 on the engine

 

does the car have a conversion harness on it... bc if it does he was probly running the obd2a ex vtec ecu if it doesnt have a conversion harness he was probly running a p28 which is the stock ecu that came with the ex model civics..

so id go out on a limb and say he was running a p28 which u can find on here for any where between 80- 150 bucks...

GET AN ALARM IF U HAVE A HONDA

 

see where your upper radiator hose goes to your engine look straight down its on the side of the block

 

hold on guys i need to go downstairs and check the engine code... and what is convertion harness? how can i find if its installed? i hope my car is not stolen yet...

 

http://shopping.lightningmotor...0.gif

that is a jumper harness it should look like that if u got 1.

 

ignore the conversion harness questions.

once you find the engine code on the block, the next easiest thing to do is to pull back the carpet near the door on the passenger area and check your ecu, there are numbers listed on the side, that will tell you what ecu you have as well

 

ok it says HM D16Y5 it took me awhile to find out that this number is laying under 3 inch of dirt lol !!! so what are your advises?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by instrument &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote"> the next easiest thing to do is to pull back the carpet near the door on the passenger area and check your ecu, there are numbers listed on the side, that will tell you what ecu you have as well</TD></TR></TABLE>

his ecu was stolen. how is he suposed to check it. and yes people running obd2 motors in obd1 cars sumtiems do use a jumper harness

 

Thanks a lot bro ...you really helped me , so i can buy any of ecu p28 now?


Modified by tamik at 3:24 PM 10/8/2008


Modified by tamik at 6:30 PM 10/9/2008

 

bc u can only post 5 tiems per day just edit ur other posts and talk thru them... so ur saying it does have a obd1- obd2 jumper harness on it.. not all are red they can be all diff colors.

 

yeah there are suposed to b three wires hanging there they are the ones that conect to the ecu. they should b grey plugs with all diff color wires going into um.. if all the wires are teh same color its s jumper harness if tehy are all diff colors its stock harness.. and probly was using a p28

 

yeah man the p28 is the scu that was usedin ur car origanly and is what they probly used for the swap. if it was me thats what id get.