My little cousin goes and buys 92-95 hatch with an integra front conversion and a h23 swap. He gets it, it lasts about 6 days and then this happens.

motor locks up on the way home from hsi work we tow it with turbo deisel ford. We pull motor and begin to find all sorts of half assed bullshit. Isntead of using amount kit. They just cutthe passenger side mount and drilled a new hole?

here are some pics of hte wiring. and the unpainted engine bay and **** just pisses me off..... thats the injectior wiriing.
thats some other wires and **** that are butt connected to a few other wires with a few running to tops and a few running to i dont know where the hell.
i dont know what the **** .....

So we bought a JDM h23 long block from Hmotors.com and now i have a few questions as h series motors are not somthing i have reserched..

What is this plug? What is this plug?

Why does the USDM fuel rail have 2 holes

and the JDM have only one?

I am at a loss on the wirieing that is the only part of a swap that frustrates me. WHy was all that wiring done on the injectors? There is a resistor box. Why?
The intake cam was retarded 4 degrees. exaust cam set at normal. Im too pissed to think right now. Hope to hear from you guys and hope my pics worked.

 

Why would anybody buy something A.) with an integra front end conversion, B.) with such halfassed work in the engine bay and C.) without any semblance of professionalism on the wiring?

Good luck there: you've got a project on your hands now.

 

i wasnt able to be there with him when he test drove/ purchased the car. bost of this **** *** wiring was hidden. Like i said it wasnt till pulling hte motor that i noticed all this.

 

have you confronted the guy that your cousin bought it from yet? You should definitely ask him some questions...

 

eeeewwwww, ghetto rigged set up! I would find out wtf the seller did to the car...and ask for some money back..unless your cousin signed a form stating he was buying the car as is.........

 

If you need some help let me know. Located in Tyler Tx. If I were you, I would start fresh wiht a new harness. And since your not VTEC, you could use a dx harness (make sure its 4wire O2). I have those laying around. And I also have a template made for converting Civic engine harnesses to fit Prelude motors. Just let me know

 

I would love some help i go to texas fairly regularly as my girlfriend lives in bedford. and help would b e appreciated.

Yeah a new harness is next step. we have the JDM one but you know how that goes LoL. any more suggenstions?

 

he called the guy no answer hopefully the **** will come and pay for most of the repairs ....

 

there's no h23(non-vtec) in Japan

so, is it the h23vtec out of the wagon?

 

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hahhahahah sorry but when ur cousin signed that title over to his name (or parents) the original owner lost all his rights to the car and doesnt have to pay for anything.

the plug in the engine is for the lights and stuff i think

 

well there is no numerical suffex on the engine code on the block so its gotta be JDM

 

looks like some long nights...

 

to answer some of your questions, the prelude injectors need a resister box because they work differently than a standard d or b series injector setup. im not sure on the specific and how much this helps you but if you search for it i believe in a post about putting an h22 in a del sol someone posted a very good diagram explaining alot of things involved in the h series swaps. And yes, that swap looks like complete **** s be prepared for fun. it also looks like the chassis tranny mount is pretty mangled, what's up with that?

 

hoooray for buying someone else's problems!
bad deal man, good luck with it though!

-Bryan-

 

cant blame the seller ur cousin bought the car knowing there is a swap in it he should of waited for u if u had time or not. plus the engine bay is not even the same color, shady already. i dont know if anyone would buy a swap car without knowing nothing about swaps buy the way how much was it?

 

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because if you're running low impedence injectors on a high impedence injection system, you need a resistor box. The H series 270cc injectors are a low impedence injector

 

either the oil was rarely changed or that motor was beat to ****.............hella glazed

 

Yeah its quite obvious that the person who had it in the prelude ran the **** out of it and then they got it in the hatch and ran the **** out of it and can anyone explain the 4degree retard on the intake cam? No2?

 

Hmm could be turbo. I think that's common on turbo setups.

Suks about the motor. At least now you have something to build and mess around with.

 

pretty sure that is the plug for the AC part of the harness

 

I thought it was AC also. Thanks for verifiying.

You guys ahve any idea on the Fuel rail?

 

So it's the H23 not the H23a1 right?
My guess with the wiring is that they used a USDM H23A1 wiring harness. That plug that is near the distributor goes to the external coil the H23A1's have. Or at least that's what it looks like in the pic.
The USDM fuel rail has the 2 bolts. The one on the left is where the fuel line connects and the one on the right is where you could attach a fuel pressure gage, or let the pressure out of the system.
I bet the guy that did it used a USDM harness and chopped it. I really don't know too much about the H23. Is it VTEC? Doesn't look like it is from looking at the cams.

 

Why would you buy a car without inspecting the engine and stuff like that first? Specially on a car with all that work done to it... You are just an idiot.. You have no reason to be pist off.. It was your own stupidity that got you into this situation.. Sad but true.

 

^you mean his cousin

 

whats the point of even posting if you are just going to bust his *****....learn to read before you start calling someone an idiot and stupid...maybe if you learned to read you would have see that right up front is says that his COUSIN bought the car and did not ask for any help when looking at the car......he's just trying to help him out of a huge friggin mess now

anyway looks like you've got a mess and a ton of work ahead....good luck
for you helping you cousin out of a jam