well in order to run a ex motor you gotta have the right ecu for it with the vtec so it will enguage and you need to hok up the knock sensor so it does not knock you gotta run all the right stuff for the right motor when i was doing my VAFC i was not able to go past 3200 but mine is an auto but i am guessing your's is a 5 speed so get the 96 ecu and hook up the knock sensor