[s-cars] S-CAR-List Digest, Vol 38, Issue 72

[Peter Dowker]

My $.02 - as someone suffering the same symptoms -
Ambient Temperature in or around the ECU .

Spray and cold water would keep that floor pan cool and conduct ECU  
capacitor heat away, would it not?

PD


Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 19:17:26 -0500
From: Huw Powell <audi at humanspeakers.com>
Subject: Re: [s-cars] Perplexed
To: Robert Myers <bob at chips-ur-s.com>
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> The first 350 miles of the trip were done at ~80 mph in a driving
> rainstorm and buckets and buckets of spray.
>


>> Wild guess... Water in a connection somewhere that the heat in
>> the engine bay, over hundreds of miles, managed to evaporate.
>> Dry connection, no more miss.
>>

Wild guess... dry connection somewhere that the rain fixed by getting it
wet, and keeping it wet, over hundreds of miles.  Wet connection, no
more miss.

-- 
Huw Powell

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