my brothers got a 88hf with a b16a2, its converted to obd1, the car is getting fuel an spark, when we turn it over its chugs but wont fully start, its now throwing a code 8 TDC and im still getting spark, when we pulled the motor out of the old crx to put in this one it was running so i know the dizzy is good, so i thought it might be the wiring so i hardwired both tdc power and ground from the distributor straight to the ecu and still same issue, im waiting on a friend to try his dizzy to just make sure its not the dizzy, but any other opinion on what may be the problem, any ideas will help

 

do you have the HF engine harness on it?

 

yeah its an hf harness my brother bought the car it had a wire tuck.

 

was the car running with a different engine in it before you swapped in the B16?

 

yeah b20vtec