So I got my girl friend a cheap 4 door eg that was stolen before and the people just wanted to sell it, it was missing very little and nothing whats cut on any of the wires in the engine bay but it seems they didn't want to unplug the ecu so they just cut it out. I got some ecu plugs in the junk yard with the wires on then, I was just going to go in and put all the wires together by color....well that is tell I found out that there are more then one of each color wire one that is ground and one that is power. I don't what to cross anything like that, so what I'm going to do now is pull the full harness out of the car and get a used one from the junk yard but I don't know if i need to remove the dash and how much I'm going to have to take out to get what I need. So if anyone can tell me what I'M going to need to do or have a link to a DIY. After this is done the car will be ready to start and drive.

 

Anyone? got anything?

 

The dash needs to come out, battery tray too and a bunch of other stuff. IIRC the heater core and AC evaporator core needs to be removed as well.

 

Thank you.

 

Well thank you for all that, I went to the junk yard and got the full harness out of a lx civic 4 door, it really was not that hard to get out and put in. I did remove everything from the dash up, and the driver and pass seat. I tried to keep the ac in but it seems that there is no room for that so out came every thing, I the new on in now and I have the car running like a dream now. I just need to see how it drives now.

only problems I had really:
1. the brake switch in the dx is not the same plug as the lx (dx 2 pin v.s. lx 4 pin)
2. the right door wires are for all the power stuff and the dx only has a 2 wire plug.

The wires on both are the same colors as I need for the brakes, but for the door I need to test them all