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Wiring Question, How to tell engine harness apart?

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#1 ·
Here is my spot.

A lot of you know I had my crx project started at a friends shop. So much drama mixed with it. Long story but I realized a lot of what I thought I had wasn't and a lot of what I thought was done wasn't. So now I find out a TSX harness isn't ideal to use in my kswapped crx. Now with everything being messed up I figured who knows what harness I have and until I know why spend more money.


So the question is how could you tell a TSX engine harness from a RSX 02-04 Harness?
 
#3 ·
What color is the first wire on connector A (the grey ECU plug) on the harness. It has 9 wires in the top row. If you have an 02-04 harness it should be Black/White and if you have an 05 harness it should be Red/Blue.
 
#6 ·
Well I asked my buddy to look for the extra white plugs that Ryan said would make it a TSX harness and he did not see those.

He did tell me the grey plug had blk/white so I am assumign I lucked out and got the correct harness afterall. I will post pictures once I get it to verify Im not missing anything.

I hate going thru this all the time with this project. I mean it should have been done in the first place another way and wasn't.

Thanks for the feedback guys.
 
#7 ·
I have one right now and the biggest notice i could say which is a huge difference is this triangular shapped box that connects to the fly by wire on the tsx. You can't miss it. Unless your blind others don't have it. The more settle differences are the 2 little wires on the end of the fuel rail connecter bracket they aren't on the tsx BUT ARe on RSX. Also the ecu connector for the rsx has like 1 long connector like 3 inches and tsx just has 3 smaller ones. Peace
 
#8 ·
I got K20A2 Swap From 2003 Acura RSX TypeS so I Put in in Different Bidy RSX and I got problems with Fuel Pump , ECU and Radio got No Power , rest Working Fine , I got EP3 Electric Rack Oppinion tap into ECU Harness, any advices or Solutions??? Thanks in Advance Guys !!!