Sindrlla's Real Time Awd Wagon Journal Many Pics

Oh. Why the hell would he use an entire Teg wire harness for a Civic using a Teg motor, dash, and electronics? He should have spliced and diced. I am disappointed by his lack of creativity.

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it was a fairly simple swap really. just time consiming with the car being 17 miles from my house and only an hour here and 2 hours there to work on it. the way i saw it was that we (remember that sindrlla did a LOT of the work) had 2 options. #1 being to use the complete 87 civic SI harness that i have here or #2 use a complete integra harness. either way, we had to put a whole FI harness in the car but if we went with the SI harness, we would have had to make all the changes to electronic advance where with the integra harness it was already setup for that exact engine. with doing this, the integra cluster plugged right in and we also used the integra combination switch to eliminate as many wiring changes as possible. we did have to make all the connections beside the drivers seat, adapt the civic clock plug, rear defrost plug and dimmer switch plug to the integra harness but that was no big deal since all the wire colors matched. the integra fan switch on the climate control did plug into the civic switch but the wiring configuration was different so we had to repin that plug also. the integra harness also has another second plug for the climate controls because of all the push button functions but the civic wagon has manual controls so that plug was just tucked back behind the controls... one day i will have to pull the AC switch wires out of that harness but for now, her AC compressor is shit anyway.

as far as making the teg cluster fit... i used the original civic cluster hood and glass then put the integra cluster behind that. the modifications that needed done were some trimming to the cluster mounting points and a new hole had to be drilled in the civic's glass cover because the integra cluster has the trip meter reset pin in a different location. this leaves your cluster glass cover with an extra unused hole and rubber grommet but nobody will ever notice it unless you point it out. if they do notice... it's a conversation piece about your "JDM" cluster and how it needs to vent because the speedo and tach move so fast

chris, if you decide to go FI with your wagon, i can help you get the integra cluster mounted in the wagon hood and glass since it would be a lot easier for me to do a second time around... if you wanted to go that route



the plan was to make the least ammount of wiring changes as possible so to eliminate wiring/electronic gremlins in the future and make it as reliadle as possible since Jenny needs this car as her DD... hopefully one day she can get another car to DD so she can preserve this wagon and finish up the rest of the interior and exterior work that it needs then she can fully enjoy it. im saving all of my creativity for my next project!

I know, I was just busting his chops. Putting a teg motor, ecu, ignition, and cluster is way easier with the complete harness.

So I know this thread is pretty dead. I am slowly planning on doing this exact swap. Sindrlla, any updates??