Inquiry about ECU Compatibility with KPRO v4

[turner2f]

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Hello Hondata,

I have a 2003 Acura RSX ( Base model ) with Automatic Transmission.

My ECU part Number is 37820-PND-A56

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I am planning to do an " Auto to Manual " conversion swap on the transmission

I am also planning to do a K24A2 engine swap

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According to your article at ...

https://www.hondata.com/tech-alternativ ... ngine-swap

" With the KPro4 it is possible to use the 2002-2004 RSX base auto ECU.
This will only work for engine swaps. "

" We install the manual transmission code into this ECU. "


QUESTION 1 :

Will my ECU work with KPRO v4 for both the Manual Transmission conversion and the K24A2 swap ?


QUESTION 2 :

Will my ECU work with KPRO v4 for JUST the Manual Transmission conversion alone by itself

( without doing a K24A2 swap ) ?


QUESTION 3 :

What is the turnaround time to get KPRO V4 installed ?


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Thanks in advance.


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[turner2f]

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QUESTION 4 :

I am wanting to use my AUTO ECU because Manual ECU's are very expensive to buy, hard to find, and expensive to program to my key fobs.

Are there any " significant " known issues with using an AUTO ECU ?

Such as with the speedometer or cluster ?

If, yes are there any " significant " known issues with NO solutions ?



QUESTION 5 :

Which Manual Transmission harness would I need to get ?

• I have a 2003 Acura RSX ( Base model ) with Automatic Transmission.

• My ECU part Number is 37820-PND-A56

• I am planning to do an " Auto to Manual " conversion swap on the transmission

• I am also planning to do a K24A2 engine swap

EXAMPLE : A Manual Harness from a RSX Type S, or would a Manual Harness from a Base RSX be fine ?

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Thanks in advance.

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[Spunkster]

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[Lucky16]

Apologize for reviving a very old post, but I have similar questions.

I'm also doing an auto to manual trans swap on an 03 base RSX.
(Trans swap is to a W2M5 5 speed - the one out of the original 02-04 RSX base manual)

ECU 37820-PND-A56
I have a manual harness to use for the project

Seems like Kpro4 should work fine and from the "KPro Alternative ECU for Engine Swaps" I just need to manually connect the VSS signal wire to the Kpro patch harness.

My question is, on the patch harness it looks like there's about 9 other wires coming out. Where do all those need to go?

Alternatively I could get a PND-A06 ECU and immobilizer bypass for the project to work, but that's a whole lot more money when it seems like all I need to do for kpro on my current auto ECU is some de/repinning and some soldering.

I'm not tracking there should be any other issues?

Side question - to get the prior reflash discount what documentation do I need? or do you just look it up based on the serial? (I currently have the hondata auto reflash. love it btw)

Happy Thanksgiving

[turner2f]

Hello Lucky16.

A little over a year ago I sucessfully swapped my transmission.

Invested 6 months of reserch toward parts, purchases and labor.

I had to sell the car within 3 months before tag renewal was due.

Happy ending was that I got into a Toyota 86.

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All the best.

Let us know how it goes.

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[Lucky16]

Interesting
Sorry you had to sell after all that work - I know it's a lot

When you did your swap did you get kpro on your auto ecu or did you buy a manual one?

[turner2f]

I purchased a Manual ECU from eBay, and sent it to a dealer that then added the KPROv4 to the ECU.

I have read other forums where other folks had their readiness codes erased when the ignition is turned off after they installed KPRO.

One other thing I was not told was that you will need to get your car tuned for idling.

Whenever the A/C was turned on the RPM's would drop almost to the point of the car stalling.

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No one told me, so I am passing this info along to all that can benefit from it.