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Installing JDM Climate Control
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Assembling

The air mix motor can be a bit complicated to install. If you look at the first picture below, the air mix motor should be in the bottom right corner. In the second and third picture, you can see that the bracket in the JDM cars is almost the same as the USDM bracket except that it's a mirrored copy and instead of a place to connect a cable it's a hole to connect a wire. The problem with the stock location of the air mix motor is this, it's made for a right hand drive car so if you try to mount it like it's mounted on JDM cars, it's going to work the opposite way. (32 is going to blow cold air and 18 hot air). So you have flip it upside down. The only thing is that you won't be able to mount it in the stock location. So finding another place to mount it is required. Look at the picture below to see how to mount it.

Mounting it this way requires you to take the heater unit apart, take away a bit of plastic that's in the way, drill some holes, put some spacer under the motor bracket and bolt it in place. You can use 2 nuts about 3/8" high for the spacer. You'll need a wire to open and close the flaps on the heater so get one the right size and cut and bent where needed. You'll also need some kind of clip or something to connect it to the heater mechanism. Make sure that you set the air mix motor either to full hot or full cold and fully open or close the flaps on the heater depending on either it's full hot or cold when you cut/bent the wire.

Motor in the original position. Now it is reversed. Ready to go into car.

The power transistor should go where the blower resistor was and for the blower motor high relay, just attach it with the bottom screw of the recirculation motor.

The In-car temperature sensor goes in the dash between the unit and the steering wheels. You'll need to cut a hole in the dash. The tube from the sensor should go to the bottom of the heater unit. You will need to make a hole for it at the bottom of the heater unit near the mode control motor. For the sunlight sensor, you'll also need to make a hole in the dash but close to the windshield, I made mine on the passenger side a bit but it doesn't really matter where as long as it's close to the windshield. The evaporator sensor goes in the evaporator where the A/C thermostat was. You might need to enlarge the hole in the rubber grommet. The Outside air temperature sensor goes outside to the front of the car. Just find a place to mount it near the bumper. The heater core temperature sensor goes underneath the heater core. You will need to make a hole on the heater unit under the heater core. Make sure you don't make a hole in the heater core or you'll end up with a big mess of coolant in your car.

Now re-install your heater unit, blower unit, evaporator, dash and everything else and you should be done! Just make sure you test if everything works before re-installing the dash cause it's not fun to remove and re-install the dash all the time. Also note that you might need to cut a small notch in the center console to clear the air mix control motor.

Well this is it. The install is finished. You only need to re-fill the A/C system but other than no A/C everything is working great.

Credits
Jean-Rene Cormier
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