Lo all, not really been around here properly in a good long while, had alot of personal stuff to sort but now throwning myself back into 'it' 
So Ahh the humble EG black dash, with VTi dials, all bulbs changed to orange, jdm heater controls, coin pocket, it is nice but I want some thing different, so I pondered an ITR dash, but I fancied something different, something more in keeping with the… ‘feel’ of Tamama, so an EK9 dash sprang to mind. I mean EK9 engine and gbox, EK9 alloys, EK9 floor mats, might as well get the dials and dash eh? One ickle problem, after a good few weeks searching the interweb I couldn’t find anyone on the big Honda forums, or even on Google searches who had fitted an ek dash into an eg civic, or even tried – not even tried and failed!
So 18months later after a lot of searching for a facelift ek9 dash (well if ya good do it, get the ‘best’ one ) and a nice trip up to see Johnny at tegiwa imports in stone to pick up my new dash!
I got home and right away split the dash into bits. Previous experience of removing an ek dash in a local scrap yard had taught me that the ek dash bolts in sections to a main metal frame work. So the 1st place to start would be to remove the main sections of plastic and see if they would fit.
Another small problem, ek dash looms wont plug into eg fuse boxes. Now this time last year some may (99% wont) remember I was after ek wire diagrams and was kindly supplied with some, so I made a start the idea of using an EG dash loom (so it would plug in) and swapping over the ek dash plugs onto it. Took me the best part of 2 wks at work (yeah my old job I was being made redundant and no one cared anyway lol) to figure it all out using a mix of uk and usa wire diagrams but I managed to splice EK dial/cluster plugs onto a spare eg dash loom I had. Only I didn’t have an ek dash, or even dials/cluster to use to test them so the whole project got put on hold while other things in my life took priority.
So now I had an EK dash and cluster I could try my loom!
It didn’t really work…. Half the lights on the dash worked, some didn’t work at all, and some where just wrong full stop! So back to the drawing board 
After much thought I had a new idea, so I set to it right away, working 9hrs at my current job, then putting a good 2-3 hrs each night last week into redoing my research, refiguring and retesting allot a lot of wires, today that accumulated in a new conversion plan – and a new conversion harness
My work place for the afternoon
And 3 hrs of soldering later, tadar a new conversion harness is born!
So I had to try it out before I lost daylight.
Things again didn’t go well, only the radio, turn signals (and thus hazard), the high beam light, and the dash lights worked, everything else failed to work.
I figured I had made a wire mistake, or something, so back inside to check the wire diagrams but to no avail + Mrs_Gee wanted to go to the cinema so I called it a day.
Only being a sad geek while watching the film (which was quite good) I couldn’t stop wondering what had scuppered my harness, and then bingo – iirc from the wire diagrams all the things that had failed ran from one fuse, and the few things that did work came from different fuses – it couldn’t be so simple could it? So getting back from the cinema I went out and had a looky….Turns out was just a fuse, silly me had plugged the wire harness in with the keys in the ignition and power on – this must have popped the fuse to the dials/cluster some how. So one 10A fuse change later and bingo success!
Before all that worked:
After:
So right now, the wiring seams to be sorted (till I find a facelift heater matrix), next up comes the really scary bit. Now as I touched upon before, the eg and ek dashes are very different, the eg dash is a one piece dash with a bit of metal frame work – but its one big lump. The ek dash is a big metal frame that everything else bolts to – including the steering column!
So I’m pretty confident the dash will fit dimensionally, however the steering column on the EG bolts to a metal plate which is part of the chassis, as it may have dawned on you, this metal plate gets in the way, as is gonna have to be cut off if I’m to fit the metal frame for the ek dash. The risk being once its cut off – there’s no going back I HAVE to make the ek dash fit. Plus since I don’t have a facelift ek9 heater matrix ive picked up a preface lift matrix uber cheap late last year, ill use that with a std eg heater controls bodged somewhere so I have a heater that works till I find a facelift one for a reasonable price.
This next stage wont be happening for a week or so, as ive got tam’s MOT next week so I’m gonna run the std dash as I know it works 100%, pass the mot then start cutting. With some luck it might be all ready for japfest…. And if not anyone wanna buy an entry ticket and track time
Ta for looking
So Ahh the humble EG black dash, with VTi dials, all bulbs changed to orange, jdm heater controls, coin pocket, it is nice but I want some thing different, so I pondered an ITR dash, but I fancied something different, something more in keeping with the… ‘feel’ of Tamama, so an EK9 dash sprang to mind. I mean EK9 engine and gbox, EK9 alloys, EK9 floor mats, might as well get the dials and dash eh? One ickle problem, after a good few weeks searching the interweb I couldn’t find anyone on the big Honda forums, or even on Google searches who had fitted an ek dash into an eg civic, or even tried – not even tried and failed!
So 18months later after a lot of searching for a facelift ek9 dash (well if ya good do it, get the ‘best’ one
) and a nice trip up to see Johnny at tegiwa imports in stone to pick up my new dash!I got home and right away split the dash into bits. Previous experience of removing an ek dash in a local scrap yard had taught me that the ek dash bolts in sections to a main metal frame work. So the 1st place to start would be to remove the main sections of plastic and see if they would fit.
Another small problem, ek dash looms wont plug into eg fuse boxes. Now this time last year some may (99% wont) remember I was after ek wire diagrams and was kindly supplied with some, so I made a start the idea of using an EG dash loom (so it would plug in) and swapping over the ek dash plugs onto it. Took me the best part of 2 wks at work (yeah my old job I was being made redundant and no one cared anyway lol) to figure it all out using a mix of uk and usa wire diagrams but I managed to splice EK dial/cluster plugs onto a spare eg dash loom I had. Only I didn’t have an ek dash, or even dials/cluster to use to test them so the whole project got put on hold while other things in my life took priority.
So now I had an EK dash and cluster I could try my loom!
It didn’t really work…. Half the lights on the dash worked, some didn’t work at all, and some where just wrong full stop! So back to the drawing board 
After much thought I had a new idea, so I set to it right away, working 9hrs at my current job, then putting a good 2-3 hrs each night last week into redoing my research, refiguring and retesting allot a lot of wires, today that accumulated in a new conversion plan – and a new conversion harness
My work place for the afternoon
And 3 hrs of soldering later, tadar a new conversion harness is born!
So I had to try it out before I lost daylight.
Things again didn’t go well, only the radio, turn signals (and thus hazard), the high beam light, and the dash lights worked, everything else failed to work.
I figured I had made a wire mistake, or something, so back inside to check the wire diagrams but to no avail + Mrs_Gee wanted to go to the cinema so I called it a day.
Only being a sad geek while watching the film (which was quite good) I couldn’t stop wondering what had scuppered my harness, and then bingo – iirc from the wire diagrams all the things that had failed ran from one fuse, and the few things that did work came from different fuses – it couldn’t be so simple could it? So getting back from the cinema I went out and had a looky….Turns out was just a fuse, silly me had plugged the wire harness in with the keys in the ignition and power on – this must have popped the fuse to the dials/cluster some how. So one 10A fuse change later and bingo success!
Before all that worked:
After:
So right now, the wiring seams to be sorted (till I find a facelift heater matrix), next up comes the really scary bit. Now as I touched upon before, the eg and ek dashes are very different, the eg dash is a one piece dash with a bit of metal frame work – but its one big lump. The ek dash is a big metal frame that everything else bolts to – including the steering column!
So I’m pretty confident the dash will fit dimensionally, however the steering column on the EG bolts to a metal plate which is part of the chassis, as it may have dawned on you, this metal plate gets in the way, as is gonna have to be cut off if I’m to fit the metal frame for the ek dash. The risk being once its cut off – there’s no going back I HAVE to make the ek dash fit. Plus since I don’t have a facelift ek9 heater matrix ive picked up a preface lift matrix uber cheap late last year, ill use that with a std eg heater controls bodged somewhere so I have a heater that works till I find a facelift one for a reasonable price.
This next stage wont be happening for a week or so, as ive got tam’s MOT next week so I’m gonna run the std dash as I know it works 100%, pass the mot then start cutting. With some luck it might be all ready for japfest…. And if not anyone wanna buy an entry ticket and track time
Ta for looking
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