I found out that a pair of wires shorted out on the crossfire and fried my ecu. I am trying to find out the steps needed in getting a new one and how to actually make it work. I highly doubt it would be a direct plug and play and would really appreciate any advice or help. I see them on Ebay but they all seem to be for a 2004. My car is a 2005 base with manual trans.

The one photo i attached is hard to see but you can kind of see the black burn mark running along the connection prongs (not sure of the actual name)

 

I'm not saying it can be repaired but why not try replacing the components that look fried. These parts cost pennies in most cases.
I'd say its worth a try.

 

yeah thats something Im looking into today to see if its possible. crappy thing is that I just burned $200 on a time attack event, just my luck haha

 

Sorry to hear about your troubles.

Where are you located?

As Onehundred80 suggested look into a repair. I know that you can get a refurbished TCU but I am not sure about the ECU.

The PITA is that the ECU is VIN coded so you just can't go grab an ECU and drop it in (as you suspected). Reach out to Eurocharged and see if they can do the VIN coding.

 

You have a PM

 

if anyone has a answer for you Rudy has it and can fix it, call or send car to him..

 

I'm near London Ontario in Canada. I plan on sending it out tomorrow to see if anything can be done and go from there.

Fingers crossed!

 

Get that thing fixed so I can see you race at CSCS!

 

Which wires shorted out? Good luck on the repair.

 

Just in case, car-part.com lists about a gazillion ECU's ( they call it Engine Computer ), starting at $74 -
you will, of course, have to have it programmed.

 

When are we going ??? I'm IN !!

 

Omg I know! I'm going to try and have it ready for cscs. I signed up for sigma time attack for the 13th but I had to postpone that for a later date.

Either way I will be at cscs with or with out the crossfire. It's too much fun to miss out!

And thank you guys for the support!

 

Alright great news!

The car is up running again perfectly again and it will be attending CSCS for some time attack.

Thank you so much Rudy and everyone else for your help!

Now lets see if i can improve my track times

 

That's good news but what was the fix?

 

For people who would like to attend and watch this event here is the link
Canadian Sport Compact Series :: June 3rd @ TMP, Cayuga

 

Ah......same day as Fleetwood. OK screw Fleetwood.

Just kidding. It's a show not to be missed.

 

The ecu unfortunately got shorted out by a couple of O2 sensor wires. So luckily I managed to with the help of Rudy, replace th ecu

By the way the crossfire managed to place second in the street rwd class, thank again guys!