ECU Problems

[jlevie]

Found the lemons source. I think I mis-remembered the bit about 5k rpm (it relates to floating valves) but they do have problems with going though ECUs at an alarming rate.

My, and other, Spec E30's beg to differ with that. I've never had a DME fail from "overheating", nor do I know of any that have. And our race cars spend a lot of time at the upper of the rpm band (above 5k).

[nando]

Yeah, I agree. That is nonsense.

Were they perhaps running an ebay chip? Dwell settings set too high could fry a driver (there is only one, fyi). Otherwise it comes down to age and condition.

[Rose E30]

Meh, I have never had to deal with ECU stuff with my car, I had just remembered reading this on the lemons forum.