D15B 3 stage setup

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Meshaq

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i need to know if you can wire a 3 stage vtec d15b with a d16y7 wiring harness. I have a vtec ecu I just dont have the plugs for the vtec
 
i need to know if you can wire a 3 stage vtec d15b with a d16y7 wiring harness. I have a vtec ecu I just dont have the plugs for the vtec

Do you have the P2J ECU that was made for the motor? If not, then the answer is no.

And to the guy that said his VTEC solenoids are missing... sorry, that's not possible. You'd need some kind of custom bracket with a gasket to seal the hole left in the head. VTEC solenoids are not on the intake manifold btw. Hate to break it to you, but you have a non-VTEC motor.

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I think I may have brought this up before somewhere, but couldn't you add a secondary vtec driver circuit like adding vtec function to a non-vtec ecu? I was thinking if you could convert an obd1 for tuning purposes. If not you could always run an external vtec controller or 2 for that matter. Not ideal but what are ya gonna do for a weird setup like that with no aftermarket support

i still wanna see somebody do one up
 
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have any of you thought of looking at the date of this thread
 
:moved:

I think I may have brought this up before somewhere, but couldn't you add a secondary vtec driver circuit like adding vtec function to a non-vtec ecu? I was thinking if you could convert an obd1 for tuning purposes. If not you could always run an external vtec controller or 2 for that matter. Not ideal but what are ya gonna do for a weird setup like that with no aftermarket support

i still wanna see somebody do one up

And yes, you can do that with an OBD1 setup.
 
I had one with an AEM EMS until earlier this year when I sold it for a GSR.

Activating VTEC and VTEC-E are the least of your problems. People pretend that a VTEC controller is all you need. But if you actually try that you find that the engine stutters badly. VTEC changes require a change to the fuel pulse-width and ignition timing. Honda switches to an entirely different map. I could explain a little further but it's a lot of writing if you don't have experience with tuning but basically there are times when you're particular load/rpm cells in VTEC and other times when you're in the same cells but not in VTEC. Hence the need for a separate map or function.
 
I always wondered about that actually, I have no experience with external vtec controllers but that def makes sense... you can't just pop the solenoid open and expect it to run right it would be like switching from a stock cam to a stage 2 with no other mods or tuning

I remember years ago when I was into domestic tuning, a few of the guys on the diy efi boards and I were discussing a setup where you have multiple files on an oversized chip large enough to fit them, and one (or several) of the pins runs to a switch where you can manually select a prog like street/race/valet/etc. I know a few of the aftermarket chip manufacturers offered that back then too

wonder if you could do something like that only instead of the map being switched by a manual switch it would be triggered on/off by the vtec circuit
 
:squint: i dunno... sounds made up to me

ot anyways, maybe you should start a thread about it
 
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stmotorsports, what you're talking about isn't necessary. I've had similar conversations with people who want to have separate maps where you flip a switch between them. One economy map, one emissions map, one power map... actually there's no reason not to have that all built into one single map. Emissions testing is idle, then 2500 RPM. It's quite easy to find those small areas in your map and tune them to stoich. For fuel economy, you're talking cruising at 35, 45, and freeway speeds up to 80. Those are very light load points with RPM (on a Honda) at 2800-3500. Again, you find those rows and tune them very lean. Most Hondas can quite easily go to 16:1 and slightly leaner with very careful ignition timing tuning. Power is quite different. Power jumps to heavy load when the RPMs are low and then slowly climbs in RPM as the load stays high, going higher the more air you can get into the engine. None of these areas of the map conflict.

VTEC, boost, NO2 are different because there's overlap where you're in the cells when you're not in VTEC (etc) and you're in them again when you are in VTEC due to limitations in the resolution of a map. All standalones give you the ability to switch to separate VTEC, boost, and NO2 compensation tables.


I don't understand what you mean about splitting the thread but this thread moves so slow. How can you blame someone for posting in a thread that's still on the first page?
 
OP did post in a thread that had been inactive for years... hence the :moved: from me when I split the new posts out to a new thread.

Back on topic. Good info. :thumbsup:
 
i need to know if you can wire a 3 stage vtec d15b with a d16y7 wiring harness. I have a vtec ecu I just dont have the plugs for the vtec

Just FYI - Obd1 and Obd2 a/t transmission electronics aren't interchangeable. you will need an OBD1 a/t transmission as well if you convert to OBD1
 
I just thought of something- for the secondary vtec to fire, does the primary solenoid have to already be open? Meaning is the 3rd stage dependant on the 2nd stage? Or will the secondary fire either way? Like say what happens when you go from cruising at low load/low rpm (stage 1, lean burn, 12-valve mode), then downshift and nail it which would spike both the rpms and load? Does it fire both solenoids simultaneously?
 
I'm pretty sure the requirements for the '2nd' stage are that the first stage is already implimented, so the lobes dont over exert themselves going from 12v all the way to 16v and open lobes. Annnnd vtec is not dependant on load, just temp and rpm.fyi.
 
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