I did buy and auto P13 from a JDM dealer. The reason i had to use the p14 was because my 96 OBD2 prelude had abs and a built in TCS....So when i got my obd2->1 wiring harness I noticed that it did not have the wires hooked up for the Extra pigtail "B" on the PCB of the ecu. It turns out my p14's B plug controls the abs, torque converter lockup and A/B/C shifting solenoids of the trans. So when i hooked up my auto P13 I did not get 1-3 on D4 just 4th and the samething on D3, just 3rd.... So i had to hook up the old P14 to control the auto trans properly. Last night my brother took the car to the street races and he came home very happy

He told me he had beat the madre out of several S/C cavaliers, sunfires and taken out a spider eclipse...

this is great news a we felt the new motor sucked due to no bottom end power. The old h23 would haul from the begining but stop puilling at about 5.5k...Now we develop power from about 4.5k to 7k and although the takeoff is slow it makes up for it at the top end

The only thing i'm waiting for now is import night at the quarter so we can see how fast it is. Also i'm not too happy with vtec kicking in at 5.5k so i'm going to see how much better the hybrid reacts to it at 5k and 4.7 or 4.5k. The cams are ok but i want more from this 2.3 so i might try to see if I can get some cams from a genuine 2.3vtec as i believe these have the primary lobes of the Si and these would definitly improve the bottom end respose. Also the 70mm tb does hurt the bottom end because we lose air velocity in the 500-3500 rpm but from about 3.5k on up it does make one heck of a difference... If however i had bigger lobes (say Si) i don't think we would hurt so much... but Im not sure as i have only Chevy 350 cam experience... Well i think the next motor i'm going to build will be a turbo 2.3 as the lack of torque is rather sad... So far my younger brother and i have spend about 3.7k and I am not totaly satisfied... These little hondas sure are hard to make fast NA style...
Ezra-