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Old 05-23-2013, 02:14 PM   #13
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At this point you will get your first glimpse of the ECU. From here you can use your needle nose pliers to unplug the ECU. Be careful here, I broke a piece of the plug release in the process.



One note, there is a bracket in the foreground of this photo above that you can see two weld nuts attached to - there is a secondary bracket on BRZ's that holds another control unit in the way of the ECU. You'll have to remove the bolts attaching through to those weld nuts and also disconnect the three plugs off the bottom of that control unit (which are accessible at the far rear underneath the glove box mounting points to the right) and remove it in order to get to the ECU.

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