Articles » Swap: B16a into a 2nd gen CRX

41. Time for the axle reinstall. Now when I did this I was furious because one of my axles that came with the swap was trash and so I had to redo all this crap so this is totally up to you, but you can get 90-91 integra axles from autozone for 120 bucks, and when u bring them the old axle they give 60.00 bucks back so it maybe worth while for you to buy new axles give them your old ones and you be done with the axle dilemma, however don't give them the old ones until you know for sure these will work. Im not sure what the hasport guy is talking about when he shows u all the different axles and maybe I just got lucky but 1990 integra axles worked perfectly for me, basically this is the same as how you removed them just backwards. go back to step 20 and 21 if you are unsure of how to do this. Now, if you are using the integra axles you need to remove the caps inside the hubs



42. Reassemble your suspension, and tighten the axle nut. (once the car is on the ground you will need to come back and torque this down)

43. Go ahead and fill your engine with 5 quarts of oil, your choice, fill the Tranny up with 2 qts and then go ahead and add coolant, I think the stock radiator holds almost 1 gallon and a half I could be wrong though.

44. Hook up your clutch cable and vehicle speed sensor.

45. Throttle cable, you will need one from a 90-93 integra ls. this is so simple basically you remove the old one feed it through the firewall and hook it up opposite of how you removed it, be sure and tighten the cable really good (I didn't have mine tightened enough it wasn't even open half way when I hit the pedal.

46. vacuum hoses, below is a diagram of what to do. you will need a few tee fittings.

D goes into the intake pipe
Use a Tee fitting and hook A and B together and then connect them to F
C hooks up to H
I hooks up to G
E hooks up to J



47. Wiring- this is the easiest / hardest part of the swap. This really takes patients and you have to be careful. First things first if your ecu came with the old connectors being cut off I would practice on removing the pins, I bought a kit from radio shack for 5 bucks it looked like dentist tools, after 30 minutes of practice I had it down. You have three plugs a,b,c first you are going to take the wire you designated for vtec use a but connector and connect it to one of the pins that you made, you are going to add this pin to plug A in slot 8(a8). now for the rest of the wires look at plug a as your guide so you know what direction to look at the plug and how to count the slot etc.. Now find the C plug, and count to the 8th connector(c8), get another butt connector and connect it to another pin that you pulled out earlier to the wire you made for the 2nd o2 sensor and add the pin to the clip. Okay now take plug be and count to the 5th connector (b5) and you are going to give yourself a little slack and cut the wire, put a cap on the wire engine side of the wire, you will no longer use this wire, Use a butt connector and and crimp the wire that you added for the vtec pressure sensor and connect them together. And last but not least. find pin b19, cut it like you did b5 and cap off the engine side of the wire, then use a butt connector and crimp the knock sensor wire that you ran. Here is a chart that shows you what each pin does and here is a diagram of the pins

Diagram 1

Diagram 2

48. Reinstall the battery, check your grounds, and reinstall the intake.

49. Okay time to check everything,

Basically go over everything in case I left anything out.

50. Slide under the car and install your shift linkage, im going to give u instructions if your using the hasport linkage, basically you need the bushings off the linkages that came with your swap, if not you are going to need to order some, im assuming the ones off a b16a del sol will work pull the old linkage down and install the new one, its pretty self explanatory, the hardest part is getting the pin back in, on the linkages, you will once again need a punch and you will have to hammer it in.

51. Put the wheels back on, finger tight, or as tight as you can get, remove jack stands, lower car, then take your 36 mm socket and be sure and tighten the axle nuts and then there is thing that you beat on with a hammer to lock the nut in place. Now go ahead and tighten your lugs all the way

52. Give everything another look and fire the motor up.