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WARNING!:

IF YOU DO NOT THINK YOU ARE CAPABLE OF DOING ANY OF THESE HOW-TO'S, HAVE A CERTIFIED MECHANIC DO THE WORK AS I WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANYONE'S MISTAKES MADE DURING ANY OF THESE HOW-TO'S.

You've stumbled upon a great horsepower swap if you've got a base model 88-91 Civic or CRX. If you are not mechanically able, I wouldn't suggest doing this swap but it is pretty straight forward once you read over how it is done.

Switching from DPFI(Dual Point Fuel Injection) to MPFI(Multi Point Fuel Injection) is basically pretty simple. You are going from 2 injectors that is almost like simple carbeuration to 4 injectors which is like 4 injectors. Now this swap is great if you want to spend little money and gain some hidden horsepower.

Here is a list of parts in which I have purchased for the swap to make it easy:

88-91 Civic/CRX Si Complete Intake manifold w/Throttlebody and Injectors
88-91 Civic/CRX Si Complete Distributor(TD-02U)
88-91 Civic/CRX Si Complete Engine Wiring Harness
88-91 Civic/CRX Si Injector Resistor Box
88-91 Civic/CRX Si PM6 ECU
88-91 Civic/CRX Si Throttle Cable

Now most of these parts can be found in the local junkyard or the greatest marketplace in the world, eBay. The engine wiring harness will make wiring so much easier if you get the complete harness. I say this because it will have all the injector wiring already there and you wont have to solder so many things together. You'll also have the distributor plug in which you can pop the pins out of and plug them into the Si plug. More on that later.

Since you will be cutting and soldering wires together, you are going to need some supplies:

18 gauge wire 40+ Ft so you have enough
Automatic Wire Stripper
Soldering Pen
Solder
Heatshrink
Heat Gun
Wire Loom 20Ft or so
Electrical Tape
Mini Screwdriver(for popping pins)

For the mini screwdriver, you will need to switch some pins on the ecu plugs so this is what I came up that worked excellent. Basically, Take your mini flathead screwdriver and grind down the one side of it so that the tip will look like a perfect square. This is so that you can get it to fit in the end of the plugs and be able to butt the blunt end of the screwdriver on the pin and pop it out. You'll thank me later.

Above is a picture of the ECU Plugs and how you should look at them. Looking at them like that would be the female side that you would plug into the ecu. Now, There is alot of soldering involve but you'll be glad you soldered all the connections in the end. I started from the inside of the car with the wiring and worked my way out. Here is how to get started at the ECU:

Best Method To Do This:
-Pins B10 and B12 are empty meaning there are no wires going into them as a general rule, however some models have a wire at B12 (if you have one that is one there that is one less wire you will need to move).

-Pins B2 and B11 have wires going into them but they are not used for anything (weird, but trust me on this one).

-Take the pin/wire from B2, depin it (this means pop it out of the plug) and pin it (pop it into plug) into B10's empty spot, how you have a wire at B10.

-Take the pin/wire from B11, depin it and clip it into the B12 spot, now you have a wire at B12.

-Cut the orange C1 wire and white C2 wire "in half" (by cut in half I mean cut the wire making sure to leave enough wire so you can strip and solder them to another wire later). Now when dealing with cutting I will refer to the side of the wire coming from the interior harness as the harness side, and I will refer to the side of the wire coming directly from the ECU's plug (direct ECU connection) as the ECU side (the only plug in question for this step is the ones that go into the ECU).

-At the ECU plug, for C1 and C2 solder and heatshrink wires to them and run them into the engine bay (I did this via the A/C grommets). Mark these wires with a piece of tape saying C1 and C2 on it. Because if you are like me you were using black wire which all looks the same so you need to make sure you know which is which.

-Now connect and solder the ECU side of B10 onto the harness side of the orange C1 wire, then do the same for the ECU side of B12 and the harness side of the white C2 wire.

-Cut wires at A3 and A7, solder and heatshrink wires to the plug side of A3 and A7 and run them into the engine bay, make sure you mark them. Now you should have 4 wires running into your engine bay.

Location of ECU is under the passenger side footwell.

Wiring Colors and Functions
DPFI MPFI
Pin # Wire Color Function Wire Color Function
A1 Yellow 2 Aux Injector Brown #1 Injector
A2 Black 1 Main Relay/Ground Black 1 Main Relay/Ground
A3 Yellow 1 Aux Injector Red #2 Injector
A4 Black 2 Main Relay/Ground Black 2 Main Relay/Ground
A5 Red 2 Main Injector Light Blue #3 Injector
A6 Green Purge Cut Off Solenoid Valve (Coil) Green Purge Cut Off Solenoid Valve (Coil)
A7 Red 1 Main Injector Yellow 1 #4 Injector
A8 Yellow 3 Sedan LX A/T
A10 Red EGR Solenoid Control Valve (Coil) (A/T only)
A11 Blue/Yellow EACV (Coil) Blue/Yellow EACV (Coil)
A12 Green/Black 2 Main Relay Green/Black 2 Main Relay
A13 Yellow/Black 2 Main Relay Yellow/Black 2 Main Relay/Injector Resistor Box
A14 Green/Black 1 Main Relay Green/Black 1 Main Relay
A15 Yellow/Black 1 Main Relay Yellow/Black 1 Main Relay/Injector Resistor Box
A16 Brown/Black Ground Brown/Black Ground
A17
A18 Black/Red Ground Black/Red Ground
DPFI MPFI
Pin # Wire Color Function Wire Color Function
B1 White/Green Hazard Fuse White/Green Hazard Fuse
B2 Orange Tandem Control Solenoid Valve Blue 1 Fast Idle Control Solenoid Valve
B3 Yellow A/C Clutch Relay Yellow A/C Clutch Relay
B4 Yellow/Green Radiator Fan Relay Yellow/Green Radiator Fan Relay
B5 White/Yellow Alternator White/Yellow Alternator
B6 Green/Orange Check Engine Warning Light Green/Orange Check Engine Warning Light
B7 Green/Orange A/T Shift Position Console Switch (Park, Neutral)
B8 Blue/Red A/C Switch Blue/Red A/C Switch
B9
B10 Orange Crank Angle Sensor
B11 Green/Black A/T Shift Position Console Switch (Drive)
B12 White Crank Angle Sensor
B13 Blue White Main Relay Blue White Main Relay
B14 Blue 2 To Yellow, To Alternator Blue 2 Alternator
B15 White 1 Ignitor Unit White 1 Ignitor Unit
B16 Yellow/Red Speed Sensor Yellow/Red Speed Sensor
B17 White 2 Ignitor Unit White 2 Ignitor Unit
B18
B19 Green/Red Electric Load Detector Green/Red Electric Load Detector
B20 Brown Ignition Timing Adjusting Connector Brown Ignition Timing Adjusting Connector
DPFI MPFI
Pin # Wire Color Function Wire Color Function
C1 Orange Crank Angle Sensor Blue/Green Cylinder Position Sensor
C2 White 4 Crank Angle Sensor Blue/Yellow Cylinder Position Sensor
C3 Orange/Blue TDC Sensor Orange/Blue TDC Sensor
C4 White/Blue TDC Sensor White/Blue TDC Sensor
C5 Red/Yellow TA Sensor Red/Yellow TA Sensor
C6 Red/White 1 TW Sensor Red/White 1 TW Sensor
C7 Red/Blue Throttle (Position) Angle Sensor (TPS) Red/Blue Throttle (Position) Angle Sensor (TPS)
C8 Yellow EGR Lift Valve Sensor
C9 Red/White 2 PA Sensor Red/White 2 PA Sensor
C10 Green/White 3 Brake Switch Green/White 3 Brake Switch
C11 White 1 MAP Sensor White 1 MAP Sensor
C12 Green/White 2 EGR Lift Valve Sensor/Pa Sensor/Ignition Timing Adjusting Connector/TA Sensor/TPS Sensor/TW Sensor Green White 2 Pa Sensor/Ignition Timing Adjusting Connector/TA Sensor/TPS Sensor/TW Sensor
C13 Yellow/White EGR Lift Valve Sensor/Pa Sensor/TPS Sensor Yellow/White Pa Sensor/TPS Sensor
C14 Green/White 1 MAP Sensor Green/White 1 MAP Sensor
C15 Yellow/Red MAP Sensor Yellow/Red MAP Sensor
C16 White 3 O2 Sensor White 3 O2 Sensor

Next, you're going to want to move into the engine bay. If you can find a plug from a junkyard with 4 wires coming out of it, it will help you out in the long run if you ever swap your old motor for something else. Adding a plug after the firewall will allow you to easily unplug your new wiring quickly. After you have the plug wired up and you have soldered lengths of wire onto them, you can start with some easier of the wiring.

-Throttle Position Sensor (TPS) wires need to be extended, the TPS is a black sensor on the side of the throttle body, there are 3 wires going to it, extend those, always solder and use heatshrink. On the TPS plug on the DX harness you will see 3 wires going to it, yellow, red, and green, in that order (if you are looking at the top of the clip from left to right on the DX clip). Depin and switch the green and yellow wires around so now the order is green, red, yellow. This is because the DX TPS sensor works in the reverse of the MPFI one, so if you didn't do that your car would think it was at redline when it was suppose to be at idle. So if you have that problem you know you skipped this step.

-Electronic Air Control Valve (EACV) wires need to be extended, the EACV is a rectangular box on the back of the intake manifold, it has 2 wires going to it, solder and heatshrink.

Next, you can mount the injector resistor box on the driver's side in between the firewall and the strut tower. There is already a 10mm bolt there that you can just mount it to.

Now you can start with the rest of the wiring and this is where you will thank me for getting the entire Si wiring harness. You can't plug the Si wiring harness in to the DX harness, if you're wondering, it just doesn't work. But you will chop up about half of the harness to get what you need off of it.

-The DX has 2 injector plugs on it, cut them off as close to the plug as you can. Connect all the yellow/black wires from those injector plug wires and solder them all together. From that combined connection solder on another wire and run it to the yellow/black wire on the Injector Resistor Box.

-Connect the solid yellow wire from the DX injector to the #1 injector (I insert all the signal wires onto the left side of the injector plug, and all the resistor box wires on the right side, though I'm not sure it matters).

-Connect the solid red wire from the DX injector and run it to the #3 injector (onto the left side of the plug, like I mentioned above).

-Connect the A3 wire to the #2 injector (left side).
-Connect the A7 wire to the #4 injector (left side).

-Now run a wire from the right side of each injector plug and connect it to the red/black wires on the injector resistor box (the order doesn't matter from what I've seen).

If you read the instructions carefully, technically you wouldn't need to run a wire from each right side of the injector plug if you have the whole harness intact. Leave the injector wiring from main part of the harness intact but take all the looming and tape off so you can get at the wiring and you'll know what I mean. All you would need to do is splice into the left side of the wires with A3, A7, and the wires from the DX Injectors. It cuts down on the soldering.

In the picture above is the injector resistor box. It is kind of difficult to see the green plug but that is the plug hiding under the big white plug.

The last thing you really need to do is wire the Cylinder position sensor and its pretty easy. From the Si harness, snip the other half of the distributor plug with the 6 or 7 wires coming out of it. Then match up the wires between the two plugs and you are good to go.

-Connect the C1 wire to the blue/green wire on the CPS (the sensor is inside the Distributor on a SOHC engine). For doing this I suggest swapping out to the proper Si distributor plug so it is all plug and play and looks clean.
-Connect the C2 wire to the blue/yellow wire on the CPS.