ECU

So now chritsmas has been and gone Nick and I finally had some time to work on the car just before the end of the year. Although the engine is ready to come out of the saab we thought we would tie up all the other little bits we needed to do to the saab first. So the main task was to get the ECU out along with the wiring loom that connects it to the engine. The ECU is a metallic box located just inside the drivers door, as shown in the pic.

There are a lot of wires in the saab 900, but fortunately the wiring loom for the engine from the ECU is separate from the other parts of the car wiring, making it relatively easy to remove. We had already disconnected most of the connectors from the engine while prepping that for removal, so the loom just had to be fed carefully through the hole into the drivers footwell once the ECU had been unscrewed. See the pic of Nick holding the ECU and engine loom.

We also took the instrument panel out of the dashboard, in case we decide we need / want any of the dials. This was mostly achieved with brute force, so the dashboard is in quite a few pieces now!