Hey guys! I have an 98 Prelude that I have just given a new heart, an 97-98 (OBDII) motor from HMO.com. However she will crank over, and try to fire up, but she will only give a few kicks before she dies. As a background I switched over the oil pump(CRK&TDC sensors), sprockets, vtec solenoid, Knock sensor, Coil pack and Dizzy. I kept the JDM Intake manifold/ fuel rail on and swapped over the throttle body, and I also left the thermostat housing alone, other than moving the line a bit in order to install the coil pack. Once the sun starts coming out I will begin checking spark, compression, ect. If anybody has any experience on this swap and any other suggestions your help would be appreciated.

 

EDIT: Spark at all four cylinders, over 200 compression on all four cylinders. However when using a noid light to check the injectors its would flash, pause, and then flash in sequence. Kinda like Flash.........Flash,Flash,Flash. Also the motor threw a code for Crank sensor. Im going to try swapping fuel rails & injectors now.

 

EDIT: Swapped over fuel injectors, still nothing. Looks like its time to test Crank sensor.

 

Fix all check engine lights, without the crank sensor the ECU may not be able to tell when to fire the injectors

 

Yes, I was an idiot and installed the wrong timing balancer belt drive pulley. GRR.

 

You need to swap oil pumps so that you can mount the CKP sensor from the old engine as well as use both lower timing gears.