CTR/SIR EK4 Head Light Wiring

[j3573r]

Hello everyone. Yeah this is my first post so im going to make it extra spicy for you all.

I have a EJ8 99 coupe and just purchased SIR EK4 headlights from a friend and also purchased the city light wiring harness from PWJDM. I want to start to put them in but PWJDM didnt include a diagram for wiring them in. I know that some of you are technical enough to do this and wondered if anyone has done this?

If someone has, can you please help me to get my wiring right before I start to install these?


Thanks in advance.
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[mportedcivicsi]

Depends on what you want the final product to be. True "JDM" is to run a city light rather than the parking light. So you would cut the wire from your parking light and connect your city light and then ground it. Your side marker would only come on when using your turn signal. Down side to this is that its probably not legal where you live. The other option is to just wire tap your parking light with the city light power wire. To ensure you have the right wires pulled for what ever you decide I would just get a test light and check the power to your parking lamp socket. Find your power and bam...you have your power. Make sure you ground the lights out too. Hope this helps.

[j3573r]

Im guessing that it helps. I undertand what will happen when you do the true "JDM" hookup. Downside is that I dont have sidemarkers on the car (im not a fan of them). Im a huge fan of illegal hookups to my car for the look LOL. So basically Im going to have to play around and try to get it to hook up correctly. I am guessing that its going to take some time and right about now its a tad but ice freaking cold outside (20 degrees). So either its going to have to get warm out or im going to have to wait till spring to do this. No one that I know has a heated garage that is going to let me use it for a few hours where I live.

Thanks for your info on this lighting question.

You have helped.

[mportedcivicsi]

No problem...when I said side marker I was refering to the parking light in the head lamp though...hince the illegal janks. Didnt mean to confuse that with the JDM side markers. In JDM-land they dont rock the "parking lights." Its city lights position then to head lights. The corner lights in the head lights are just for turn signals and they alternate from head light to fender in the flashing sequence. Good luck with it. I will go out tomorrow and see if I can pull the correct wires for you. The wire color coding is the same for the 96-00. That way its less time in the cold if you so choose to do it in the cold.

[j3573r]

Thanks I really appreciate it. If possible could you take a pic or two for me too?

[mportedcivicsi]

Werd. Just so happens that I have a Civic in shambles that will be prime for some photos. Should have them up later in the day tomorrow.

[j3573r]

Hey thanks a bunch. I cant wait to see them. HAHAHAHA i like how you had said that you have a civic in shambles. I too have a car in shambles .... the glorious 89 CRX SI. I cant wait till spring to put it back together w/o a motor and have my friend buy back his CRX.

[mportedcivicsi]

Funny thing is that my civic in shambles is a 00 EM1 that will probably never see the road again...damn criminals. Anyway...I ended up using my running EM1 for this as there was power on it. The pictures will tell all...

This is the Parking/Turn Signal light harness with the bulb jack taken off


This image shows the Red w/ Black stripe wire. This is the wire that supplies the power to the parking light. This is the wire that you will want to get your power from for the city lights. You can either wire tap it to use the parking light and city light or cut it and splice it to the city light power wire for the true JDM style lighting.


The Green w/ Yellow is your turn signal power and the Black is of course your ground. You can tap that ground if you like to ground out your city lights.

If you need any other help just post it up!

[Z3R0]

The corner lights in the head lights are just for turn signals and they alternate from head light to fender in the flashing sequence.

yeah i have to call you out on this one. i dont remember any car in Japan that did that. maybe some of the newer cars do now but i know for a fact our year model car 99-00 does not and neither did my 89 Civic EF2. they all flashed at the same time. not trying to be a dick but i thought i would let you know whats up.

oh and if there was a car that had the waggle effect its cause it has 3 lights for turning not 2.

[mportedcivicsi]

While I will never say I am an expert on this subject my research on this matter is that they did flash in an alternating sequence for the EK9. I have read of people putting a resistor in-line with their side markers to cause the delay that is not set up in the USDM wiring. I also lived in Japan from 1998-2000 and remember seeing this alternating sequence. If I am wrong I will gladly say so but I am going off of my living in Japan and my research. I will contact some friends that are over there now and see if they can verify what is really going on. No worries on the call out my friend...like I said if I am remembering incorrectly and dont have my facts right I will say so. :)

[j3573r]

Kudos my friend. I thank you for the pics. Now all I have to do is wait for it to warm up above freezing to go outside and play Mr.Electrician. I guess that its a good thing that I dont have side markers. I dont have to worry about alternating lights but it would be cool. The front end convertion would be nice but a bit out of price range atm. I cant wait till spring. Mods Mods & more Mods await my coupe in the garage.

[mportedcivicsi]

No problem. Good luck with it. A lot of people just do whatever for the side markers anyway. But since you arent going to run them its all good.

[Z3R0]

While I will never say I am an expert on this subject my research on this matter is that they did flash in an alternating sequence for the EK9. I have read of people putting a resistor in-line with their side markers to cause the delay that is not set up in the USDM wiring. I also lived in Japan from 1998-2000 and remember seeing this alternating sequence. If I am wrong I will gladly say so but I am going off of my living in Japan and my research. I will contact some friends that are over there now and see if they can verify what is really going on. No worries on the call out my friend...like I said if I am remembering incorrectly and dont have my facts right I will say so. :)

yeah i lived there from 04-06 thanks to the military which is why i owned an EF2 lol. i know the EF2 didnt waggle and im almost positive the 96-00 were the same way... i kinda took notice of them since i didnt have my car over there lol. let us know when you find out cause im not positive about my side either. :cool: