Taiwan saab guys made a relocation kit too.

Thank you for keeping the Saab live in USA.

This prolong the life of ECU but what you need to do is to look up how to solder on new wires and place the ECU away from the engine like placing it on the side of battery box or something like that, it still builds up alot of heat and vibrations around the area even if you place a heat shield below it.

Hello! I do had that ECU problem. Mine faulted totally, so I replace it with a used one and to avoid future and recurrent heat damage to my new used ECU, I purchased an ECU loom to extend it and be able of relocate it to the air filter area. I tried that heat separator plate, but heat eventually reaches the ECU, so at the filter area I replaced the original box for an open conic filter and a HEAT separator. Now this really isolates the engine heat from my precious engine brains. Lots of work to do, to extend cable by cable, one at the time, but was the final solution. I figured this because the 9-5 OG has the ECU in the windhsield wiper área, between engine compartment and passengers cabin, and those models has zero ECU fails. Cheers!

Thanks for the tip! Fellow 9.3 convertible owner here. Will look into the ECM spacer & heat shield like you did here.

Hey there. You're right to suspect the throttle body. The butterfly that piviots on a shaft meters the amount of air required and the ECU controls this and the fuel supply. When the shaft wares the aluminum housing more voltage is required to move the butterfly. So the throttle position sensor tells the ECU more movement required from your accelerator input but it becomes more and more difficult to move the butterfly as it wears. You get to a point where the ECU is sending the maximum voltage to the butterfly but it wont move to the right position that the throttle position sensor needs it to be. You then need a new throttle body. You will not get any codes on a cheap ECU reader. The ECU is not able to compensate for this ware. Most throttle bodies can be repaired if this is the case. Engine cutting out is only the beginning. When the car chuggs at idle and then a warning light you will know this is whats wrong. The engine code for this fault will then indicate a vacuum leak. You will think the manifold is sucking in air somewhere but no its the throttle body. Hope this helps someone. I like the autopsy clips as well. Love Saabs. * Love your wife worship your car! Cheers from downunder.

It's the two spliced wires going from ECU to the throttle body. Fix those and it will be fixed period.

Thanks man

Did the spacer modification on mine last year, it's well worth doing.

Nice car Ive always liked Saab and hab
ve a soft spot for them Maybe one day I will find one I like and just take a shot,I know someone who purchased Saab 93's every year for his wife and she loved them

Thanks !!!

Thanks for sharing man. Just got my 9-3 and the next day it got a P0638, replacing the entire throttle body next week since a clean only worked temporarily and had to clear the code and the boost was still weaker than it was off the lot. Wish me luck!!! And best of luck with yours.

If you have a throttle body problem, you need to open the black box on the throttle body and clean the variable resistor inside it with a contact cleaner. Sounds complicated, but it's not.

There is a guy in Australia that makes them too.... many many years ago......

Good job

Thank you so much for pointing me in the direction of sage cloning. The ECU in my car died, fortunately I was able to source another, had my old one cloned and added the stage one tune and bought the same heat shield featured in your video. Once again thank you for helping keep another saab on the road. Kudos

I heard from a Saab mechanic that the 2007 93 engine wasnt as reliable as the 2005/2006 models because the 2007 93 had bad valves.

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Not really a Saab problem but more of a GM problem. This effects many GM cars with 4Cyl where they bolt the ECU to the engine.

Good idea installing the heat sheild. Also you left out one step when you installed that kit, you forgot to mention what you need to do if you want to use the engine cover.