Friday, April 28, 2006 - 09:51 pm, by: Peter Nitschke(Pen)
Not always. Our resident electronics Guru - Mark Paddick has started to experience some issues with V8 ECu's as they age, capacitors going dud and things like that.
As it's a relatively easy thing to swap, well compared to swapping a crank, and providing you don't have any dodgy wiring attached to it (blush) then it would certainly be worth a try.
91 V8's have a thick foam base attached to the carpet which apart from proving better noise insulation than on TT's and late model V8's, also makes it a bit harder to work in the footwell when doing this little job.
If it doesn't make any difference, and if the donor ECU is known to be working right, then at least you can add something to the "tested" list
