Today i picked up a great condition EP3 steering wheel from a local seller, although I had to drive 2 hours to pick up the wheel and 2 hours back i didn't mind. So i will show you how to install one of these puppies in your rides. Well lets get started:
Heres the wheel ready to be installed:

First you MUST unplug your negative battery cable, and wait around 15 mins. To begin with you must remove the 2 star(torx) screws that hold the stock airbag to the stock steering wheel. I used a T25 to get them off:

blurry pic:

After removing the two nuts your airbag should easily come off, you might have to wiggle it a little

After this its time to start unpluging stuff
Here I have unpluged the black horn conector, its on the left side

Then comes the cruise control conector and housing:

Then comes the airbag plug:

Now we must remove the center nut that holds the steering wheel. It is a 19mm, I used a deep socket and a nice breaker bar, the nut is not that tight so be careful so you won't hit your windshield or something. Also the two screws that are on top of the 19mm nut, they have red/orange paint in them, see the pic, those must be removed. Then pull the steering wheel towards you, while being careful that the wiring goes thru the bottom slot

And here is what is looks like nekid


Now its time to get the EP3 wheel on: when I did this didn't figure out how to conect the cruise control, but I asked Freddy and he told me that you must use your stock em2 cruise control housing and trim the plastic a little bit so it will functional. As you can see the stock em2 cc plug won't plug into the EP3's socket:

Now that you have your EP3 steering wheel on, with the 19 mm center bolt, plug the airbag plug and the horn plug, plugs into the back of the EP3 steering wheel, sorry didn't take a pic of that. It shoud look like so:


My steering wheel was missing the plastic covers, the one that covers the yellow airbag plug and the also the one that covers the airbag nut on the right, I just went to the Honda dealer and they had both pieces for under 20 bucks.
Finally this is what it should look like:



Don't forget to reconect your battery and I ADVISE you to turn in your ignition from your passager side so the bag will not accidently explode in your face! Then just wait untill the SRS light on your dash goes away and your set to go. Do this at your own risk!

Comments/questions/input welcomed.


Modified by LatinEM2 at 8:54 AM 9/20/2007


Modified by LatinEM2 at 1:14 PM 1/9/2008

 

woot, looks amazing man, how do you like it? feels way better then the stock one, huh? i love mine .

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by fventura03 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">woot, looks amazing man, how do you like it? feels way better then the stock one, huh? i love mine .</TD></TR></TABLE>
Im loving it Way better than the stocker. It feels soo tiny and skinny compared to the stock

 

excellent writeup....ep3 steering wheel crew holla!!

 

say we have the dx model with no cruise control stock, does it still have the plugs? so we can plug it into the new si steering wheel?

i'm gonna do this regardless, looks great.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by theciv &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">say we have the dx model with no cruise control stock, does it still have the plugs? so we can plug it into the new si steering wheel?

i'm gonna do this regardless, looks great.</TD></TR></TABLE>
well on the dx, i don't think there a cc plug, so i wouldn't worry about it anyways.

 

Thanks for the DIY.

I might just do this one day.

 

fk it, i dont need it then. haha. on goes teh ep3 steering wheel

 

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if your car doesn't have cruise control then it wouldn't have the lugs...

 

yes lugs uh..........

 

plugs*

 

sweet!

 

Added to the FAQ's. Nice writeup.

 

wow, i like.

 

ill do this on my VP if i come across a cheap local EP wheel. so the SRS light goes off automatically?

 

bout how much do these generally go for?

 

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Only when the battery is plugged in and the SRS module notices a change in the voltage to the Airbag.

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Jon Vito &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">bout how much do these generally go for?</TD></TR></TABLE>

I've seen $250 - $500.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors...wItem

 

thanks matt i think ill just keep buying k series crap until i find one closer to the 200 range lol

 

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The seller had posted the wheel for 250 obo, i offered him 200 pickedup..he said yeah. When i got to his house hi noticed that the plastics covers were gone, he said he must have left them at the junkyard where he was parting out a ep3, so he gave me a $20 off, so total i paid $180 for it.

 

Nicely written up

Just FYI, those "star screws" are actually called "Torx" head screws.

 

NIce! I remember when I put mine on couple years ago, I remember i was scared shittless when i was about to turn the car on lol(airbag) but all was good. I have the dx.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by LatinEM2 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">
The seller had posted the wheel for 250 obo, i offered him 200 pickedup..he said yeah. When i got to his house hi noticed that the plastics covers were gone, he said he must have left them at the junkyard where he was parting out a ep3, so he gave me a $20 off, so total i paid $180 for it. </TD></TR></TABLE>

wow, amazing deal. i got mine like 2yrs ago when they weren't too common (the dc5 crew was hogging them all up), i wanted one really bad so i spent $500 on it.

 

dang thats a lot for a stock wheel.. lol

 

damn looks smooth...i might try it if i can find one around here...

 

one question: where do you store your stock steering wheel?