What did you guys do when you ran emissions with this ECU? My car is running extremely rich and wasnt even close to passing. I dont have my old ECU but is there a solution besides putting a stock one back in to pass? If that is the only solution, what other stock ECU will plug in and let me pass for the test? Any integras or civics and if so, what year and models? Thanks!

 

I ended up swapping the stock ecu back into my 99 Si. The inspection station (MA) wouldn't even hook it up to the emissions dyno until they could get an OBD2 reading from the car. Obviously a Kenji OBD1 ecu couldn't provide that.

However, my car did end up passing the sniffer test complete with timing advanced to 18 deg, and camgears at intake +2.5, exhaust -4. It was a Festivus miracle, I tell ya!!!

Swapping ecu's is easy/fast enought that it isn't a pain in the ***. Correct me if I'm wrong, but couldn't you use pretty much any Civic/Integra OBD2 ecu and the car will run??? Since you aren't concerned with VTEC, redline and overall performance for just an emissions test, I think you can use whatever you can get your hands on.

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong...

 

Give us some more info about your setup. Is the car obdII or obdI? I'm thinking that since you are in PA you just need to pass a sniffer. Drive your car around before the test, get the cat good and hot. Also I've heard that you can actually run a stock p28 to help the swap pass.... might end up having to try this at the end of the summer...

 

There is a jumper wire inside the ECU that will allow the ECU to go back to the stock P28 program (which stays on the ECU when it is chipped). All you have to do is clip this jumper (J1), and then when the test is done, you can have the jumper replaced, or soldered back together, and you'll be back to your chipped program.

 

...or ask a friend for a stock ECU for this...

 

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In PA we do not have to worry about that. They don't check anything except to see if it looks like there is a catalytic convertor on the car. Then they run a tailpipe sniffer test. He just needs to get his emissions down to what PA says his model of car should have...

Andrew