anyone ever polish or paint their ECU under the hood? mine is showing signs of rust/corrosion and id like to clean it up a bit. im polishing my valve cover and fuel rail, but it seems the ECU would be a tough piece to try and polish

anyone got pics of painted/polished ECU's?

thanks in advance





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i polished mine ill get pics up as soon as i can...

Listening, I'm in the same boat as joe.

I'd probably start with some dry scotch brite and then work my way up with finer sand paper on the ecu. I didn't have time to really play around with mine b4 i left for college as i tried to strip a whole car with the amount of time i had. My black metal bracket is pretty shotty as well. But i can sand blast that and re paint.

Freak04 wrote:i polished mine ill get pics up as soon as i can...

that would be great man!!





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just hide it like this. its under the dash in front of the console.


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s1lver_N1p wrote:just hide it like this. its under the dash in front of the console.

u ho you beat me to it lol. thats what i did joe and it helps clean up the engine bay allot. gets ride of about 3' of 2" thick wiring and the big cpu opening up the back end. its extremly simple to do but has a great effect.


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thanks guys.....so you just un-hook the harnesses, pull them back thru the firewall, and thats it?

by the way Jason, that new sig is SIQ





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yeah, the stock wiring is long enough to reach to right below your radio so no extention is needed, just unhook it, cut a biger hole in the gromment and feed one then the other thru. i just used zipties to hold the cpu in. will take u less then an hour to do.


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hmm would that work for the 03 or did gm make some stupid little change that i dont know about?



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mines an 05 and it works fine, should work fine for any eco


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I'd still like to see a polished one. I plan on having quite a bit of bling in my engine bay and i don't have a lot of anything in there right now currently anyways.

im gonna take a crack at it this weekend since i gotta redo the valve cover anyway


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sweet, as soon as i get back to new york im gonna do that, cause my strut tower bar deos not like that ecu being there at all.....lol


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It really shouldn't be hard. It's pretty smooth already, just get a polish wheel for a dremel and go to town. IIRC, the Eco ECM's have heat sink fins on them?
I wouldn't bother with the sand paper, just some 000 steel wool to clean it up, then hit it with the compound. I think that would look very nice. A well finished look that would fit with your car perfectly.

yeah they shouldnt be bad to polish.


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sndsgood wrote:yeah they shouldnt be bad to polish.

just a bia to get in between. i'd like to see it done. i'm goin to hide mine. jason we got work to do!


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