Hi my names is Alex and I live in Los Angeles, I need a canyon car and have found one for sale but it needs a distributor and I have a question that I think can be answered on this forum.

The 88 CRX is a stock USDM model and someone has dropped in a JDM d15b (from what I can tell) motor and did something very strange with the harness. I cannot tell whether it’s the stock harness or they spliced it and did some funny stuff to it. I think the distributor was either stolen or it never had one.

Now my major problem is that I have a friend (GSPOT AUTOMOTIVE) who is willing to give me a distributor at no charge but they said they need to look at the car. The problem is that the car does not run and I don’t have money to tow it so I am hoping that someone here who know this motor or SET UP can tell me what distributor I need or what it needs to look like. Thanks for the time and sorry for taking up space on the forum.

Oh yeah and I am moving down from a B16, is there any good info on how this motor produces power better yet is there something special about this JDM MODEL ?












NOT SURE IF IT WORKS SO I AM GOING TO POST LINKS AS WELL

 

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resize the damn pic mang.

 

now thats a hack job for sure sorry but have fun i would have to see it in real life to help

 

looks like a mini me swap too me,

 

 

looks like you got someone else's rats nest of a nightmare......start by getting a new harness youll save yourself alot of headaches down the road

 

Some things I can tell you based on the images:

Its a JDM d15b, VTEC SOHC engine. You need to get a distributor that matches this motor. If it were me, living in california like you do, I would contact a trustworthy importer, such as hmotors online or password to acquire your distributor.

That thick red cable with the blue scotch lock, is the VTEC Solenoid trigger wire.

Solder and heat shrink that with a better gauge of wire and re-run through the firewall.

Those 6 blue butt connectors on the 3 wire map sensor, get rid of them. Solder and heat shrink that, and wire loom it.

The 4 fuel injectors seem to be soldered and heat shrinked, assuming they are going to the correct wires on the harness.

Trace out those 2 brown wires on the back of the block, eliminate those 2 blue butt connectors and make sure they are going to the correct place at the ECU.

Based on these images you've shown I would imagine theres a similar botch job at the ECU itself. You really want to avoid exposed terminal connectors under the hood where moisture will increase resistance on the line and skew sensor outputs and put undo stress on ECU internals.

Low resistance soldered connections are mandatory.

Whats it look like at the ECU?

 

I have the same swap in my crx ur gonna need a distributor off a 92-95 sohc vtec civic. You will have to get the distributor adapter harness to convert it from od0 to 0bd1 so it will work. You can go to rywire.com to get just about any conversion harnesses for this swap. Good luck.

 

You may also want to look into gettin you a new engine harness and doing away with that mess instead of trying to figure it out. also available on rywire. im having to swap my dash harness right now due to a wiring nightmare like that.