LX-i engine into LX

[BMS]

I recently acquired an 88accord lx. to make a long story short, I want to put the 88 lx-i engine in it. besides makin room for the injection, ar there any complications I may face? I would think it would b a drop-in, but that almost never works. Anybody with some experience?

[anchovies]

It's in the how-to section. Some crazy canadian did it
https://www.3geez.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=112

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[smufguy]

Its our beer baron moderator, carotman did it and greenmachine and myself did it. There are no complications u would face if u know what u are doing and that is Accquire the knowledge before u do it. since u got a lx, ur pretty much set for the dash harness cause u dont need to change it. IF ur just wannting to swap the engines, i dont think there is a problem. But if u wanna change the engine and the intake which involves converting from carb to efi, then u got a lotta work ahead of u. Have fun.

[BMS]

I guess I'd be better off just rebuilding my A20A1 and building that up, rather than fooling with computers and wires fo the EFI conversion.

[MoonScryer]

Yes, you would be, if you don't have time to be withouth a car. You need to remove most of the LX harness under the hood, put an LXi harness in, and plump a return fuel line.

Look in the Performance and Project Central sections at the threads on DCOE carb setup's. Easy power, and not very expensive when you consider it.

[BMS]

What exactly is the harness? the main engine electrical?

[BOLINKXR-89LXI]

Thats a look of work for what you get it mite be ezer to just buy an lxi well good luck

[BMS]

Injection's nice, but I'll stick wih what I got and put the extra dough into my suspension.

[Cloud892dr]

Another good way to save you money is to have a whole F/I parts car for the conversion. I'm lucky that i still have my old EX-I, it will make things easy (dollar wise) for my EFI conversion in the spring.

Just another crazy beer drinking Canadian planning a EFI conversion here, lol.

[GreenMachine]

hmmmm... beeer - It took a couple months to do mine but a was really slow and had this job thing to do, But In my opinion it was worth it

[Cloud892dr]

I'm giving myself 2 months to do mine if all goes well.

I want to also replace the LX interior (it's rough) plus install power windows too at the same time.

[BMS]

Your LX doesn't have power windows? I thought all LX came with them.

[Cloud892dr]

nope, mine has the old school crank windows, it's a plain LX model with no features, but i'm hoping to change that next year. I also hate that my back seat won't come down, its not very subwoofer friendly.

[BMS]

Huh. Mine is decked out. power windows, locks, folding seats, power antenna, cruise control, the works. I thought that the full option package was the diff between LX and DX. Guess not.

[Cloud892dr]

The cool thing that i like is that my parts car has everything except for power locks, it will eventually be an EX-I model time i'm done with the mods.

[carotman]

Yeah don'T attempt to do thin if you don't have a parts car (unless you're dating the junkyard owner's daughter) hehe :p

[BMS]

I've decided to stick with what I've got and just put the money into making it turn. You don't need power if you don't have to slow down around turns ;-)