You're now ready to put your new engine in the car!!
Attach chains to the 2 hooks on the engine and lift it with the engine hoist. You'll notice that we only used one chain and a strap. That's because the easiest way to get the engine in the car is to have the transmission side of the engine lower than the belt side so the transmission clears the mount. But with the engine inclined like that you'll have trouble with the front and rear mount. That's why we used a strap there so that we can get the engine to its normal position after we cleared the transmission mount. You should plug coolant hoses before the engine in completely in. When mounting the engine, start with the transmission mount first, that's the easiest one to install, then do driver side mount, then front and back.
You can now remove your chains or whatever you used to put the engine in. Plug all the hoses, connectors, fuel line and transmission cable, install the radiator, etc.
Now install the driveshafts, that shouldn't be a problem since it's easier to install them then removing them. Also you need to use 4th generation driveshafts here since 5th generation are a bit different in length.
Now for the exhaust manifold and header down-pipe, if you can get something like a DC Sports or any other brand 93-96 Prelude VTEC header. Once the header is installed, you can connect the O2 sensor. The connector on the H22A4 harness is the same gender as the one on the 4th generation O2 sensor that was on the 4th generation down-pipe. So what you can do is either swap the O2 sensor and use the 4th generation one or cut the wires and swap the connectors. This will depend on either the wires are the same and we know which wire goes where.
Well we're almost finished with the swap. Put oil in the transmission and engine, the clutch fluid and coolant.
Then swap the ECU. You need to remove the plastic cover that's on the right side of the floor in front of the door. Then pull the carpet and there'll be some kind of rack you need to remove the nuts. Then remove the 4 ECU bolts. As car wasn't wired for VTEC took an old connector that is similar to the ECU one and broke it and took some pins with a few inches of wire and added the pin to the ECU for pins A4 and D6. Then pas some wire through the firewall (there's a place for that under the fuse box) and connected the VTEC solenoid to the A4 pin and the oil pressure switch to pin D6 and the other wire of the oil pressure switch should be wired to the ground on the thermostat housing.
Gentlemen start your engine!! If you did everything right and didn't forget to plug anything it should start.
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