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    Quote Originally Posted by KingElli
    Thats where ur trouble is you have the wrong ecu, obd1 ecu on what is now a obd2 car and initial settings such as vtec engagement, fuel etc...are still for your 1.6 liter . unless you plan on going the turbo route with a chipped p28 you need to ditch that ecu and get the correct ecu for you motor. then your car should run alot better.

    Get the ecu for the d15b

    Ok. That looks like the answer i'm looking for then. I am for sure going to get a turbo, but not in the foreseen future until i get out of debt and money permits.

    2 things remaining, can you guys confirm about the gas pump (original factory) either is working or not working (meaning, current pump is working fine if my car is drivable currently) or should i consider getting another to possible help fix anything (128k total original mileage on pump now.)

    and second thing is where might i go to get the proper ecu for my replacement engine, and am i looking at an expensive part to get it? also, possible to get a revamped one in the process if it's more worth it for a little extra tweeked performance if i'm needing to get one anyway? Or even anyone here possible to get one for me? Thanx so much guys. This has been haunting me for a while now.I'm finally getting the answer i've been looking for. I would've asked way earlier but had a crash and couldn't remember the site name until i caught up with an old friend from x-car club i was in.

    I don't know for sure if it's from a 1996 civic (if that is what makes it a obd2 instead of a obd1 ECU, after trying to research a little and noticed obd2 ecu's were used from 1996-1998) or how i can find out for sure what exact model engine it is by any findings i can look for somewhere on the engine. They used the polished engine head from my old engine (i forgot what reason they told me why they did had to do that though) I might still have the receipt still somewhere. I was told that from the company i bought it from. They just told me that the only info they had was it was a civic jspec engine with about 45-55k miles on it and was probably from a 1996 or so (due to mileage avg) from cars that were raced a little. That's the only stuff i know about it unfortunately. I wished i knew more now, or could know more.
    Last edited by DJDafreund; 07-24-2005 at 05:44 PM.

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