I am fairly new to this so please excuse my ignorance.

How do I change out the ecu in my 96 Civic Ex coupe?

Thanks for the help!

 

would you mind elaborating on why you need to change it? its not common for ECUs to go bad

 

Not common, but mine went out a couple months ago.

 

A friend of mine gave me a JDM ecu for a differnt engine type (B16A ?) It is also OBD2. He said it would improve the performance of my engine. He implied it was different from a stock ECU, not 100% sure of the specifics.

Thanks

 

what is the ecu code?

 

I don't have it with me (I am at work). I will post it later.

 

disconnect battery, unbolt and unplug old ecu located behind passenger side kick panel, install new ecu, reconnect battery, start and let idle for a few minutes to set maps... EASY!

 

Thanks! Should an ecu for a B16A engine work on a D16y8 engine?

Would you need the whole number off of the ecu to know?

 

Dude, check this out. My buddy gave me an ECU off of a Skyline and said it would help me out!! :rockon:

Why would you just throw some unknown ECU in your car? Cause it's JDM and JDM is cool?

You need to find out exactly what it is, what car it came from, if it's going to be compatible at all.

 

No, see that's what I'm saying...

A B16A is a DOHC motor. The D16Y8 is SOHC...

You need to learn more before you just go swapping your engine's brain out.

The middle number will be the number we'd need to tell you what the ECU is like: P72, P30, P28, P13... those are ECU codes