luciusad2004
New Member
Hey guys, I think this is my first post here so I guess ill mention a little bit about my car and my current situation.
I recently purchased and EF hatch which the previous owner had swapped a b18a1 in to. I was very hesitant to buy a modified car but the thing has almostno rust which is increasingly difficult to find up here in the rust belt, so i went for it. I'm still not sure if i regret it or not. I don't know much about Hondas or tuning in general, I decided to purchase a Honda because i figured the HUGE aftermarket and immense popularity would make it easier for a newbie to learn to wrench on his own and get help when it comes to the finer details of tuning. However i've run in to problem after problem with some of the previous mods and the fact that my car is a strange Frankenstein like monster of civic/integra parts really pisses off mechanics when I take it in for the work i can't do at home.
I'm not sure what sub model the car is. My suspicion is that its the STD but all i know is that it was one of the models with DPFI as the MPFI has been wired in, which leads in to my question.
I don't know much about Honda wiring (or tuning in general as mentioned above.) I was looking at the wiring work and it just looks iffy to me. There are a number of cut wires hanging loose down by the ECU plugs. A couple of wires are jumped between two pins on the ECU end of the harness and the soldering on the MPFI wiring doesn't look the cleanest (I removed some of the electrical tape to make sure it WAS soldered as a number of the other mods in the car involved wires just twisted together and Taped over. The MPFI wires ARE soldered) A lot of it just looks really shoddy and even a number of places wear the wires are so worn out that they have come bare.
BUT, the car runs. Do you guys thing I should really worry about the wiring? I was considering the possibility of purchasing an entire new harness such as the Rywire milspec replacement harness. I've run in to numerous Mods that were just completely half-assed from suspension, to the engine and electrical, to audio mods. I just want to make sure my car is safe and reliable before I try to tinker with it more. I thought about downloading some wiring diagrams and trying to figure it out myself but the harness is already pretty hacked up and modified, not to mention that I wouldn't really know what I was looking at.
Thanks for reading and any advice.
I recently purchased and EF hatch which the previous owner had swapped a b18a1 in to. I was very hesitant to buy a modified car but the thing has almostno rust which is increasingly difficult to find up here in the rust belt, so i went for it. I'm still not sure if i regret it or not. I don't know much about Hondas or tuning in general, I decided to purchase a Honda because i figured the HUGE aftermarket and immense popularity would make it easier for a newbie to learn to wrench on his own and get help when it comes to the finer details of tuning. However i've run in to problem after problem with some of the previous mods and the fact that my car is a strange Frankenstein like monster of civic/integra parts really pisses off mechanics when I take it in for the work i can't do at home.
I'm not sure what sub model the car is. My suspicion is that its the STD but all i know is that it was one of the models with DPFI as the MPFI has been wired in, which leads in to my question.
I don't know much about Honda wiring (or tuning in general as mentioned above.) I was looking at the wiring work and it just looks iffy to me. There are a number of cut wires hanging loose down by the ECU plugs. A couple of wires are jumped between two pins on the ECU end of the harness and the soldering on the MPFI wiring doesn't look the cleanest (I removed some of the electrical tape to make sure it WAS soldered as a number of the other mods in the car involved wires just twisted together and Taped over. The MPFI wires ARE soldered) A lot of it just looks really shoddy and even a number of places wear the wires are so worn out that they have come bare.
BUT, the car runs. Do you guys thing I should really worry about the wiring? I was considering the possibility of purchasing an entire new harness such as the Rywire milspec replacement harness. I've run in to numerous Mods that were just completely half-assed from suspension, to the engine and electrical, to audio mods. I just want to make sure my car is safe and reliable before I try to tinker with it more. I thought about downloading some wiring diagrams and trying to figure it out myself but the harness is already pretty hacked up and modified, not to mention that I wouldn't really know what I was looking at.
Thanks for reading and any advice.
