Originally Posted by Spirish ITR
hondatech: I'm pretty sure. About 2 years ago I bought a diagnostic tool and it said the ecu was bad. But then I took it to the dealership and it was throwing a code for the evap system. I have the service manual and followed the flowchart and it after doing tests it said "replace with known good ecu" so I'm fairly certain it's the ecu. I bought a '97 JDM ECU and it's not throwing a code anymore. However, I'm not sure the code would even be thrown because the ECU is different.
sensei: Thanks for the offer, but the '00 ITR ECU immobolizer is different from the '98.
Most of the problems I see turn out to be bad pin fits at connectors on Hondas, maybe that's all you have and when you plugged the replacement ecu in it was good enough to not cause a problem. I would be checking that first..