V8S: injection control box

[LutzBrux]

Dear all,
I enjoy to the max the first summer of TVR ownership.

Two days ago, I all of a sudden hat a heap of cables and a control box in the passenger footwell. The velcro of the under-dashboard cladding had come off and everything had spilled out.

The injection cotrol box has two steel things to put bolts through to attach it to the body, dashboard or....
But I could not find the bolts or bolt holes to attach it to.

Question to the tech savvy:
is the injection control box lying around lose behind the cladding, and only the cladding and its velcro strips hinder it to fall down?

I know, anything is possible with a 23 year-old TVR, but any advice beyond that?

Thanks.

Lutz

[v8s4me]

LutzBrux said:

...Question: is the injection control box lying around lose behind the cladding, and only the cladding and its velcro strips hinder it to fall down?...

Correct. All you have to do is shove it all back into the space behind the glove box and secure it wit zip-ties. This will work until the next time you hit a large bump when it will all fall out again. Or, you could do a proper job and do something like this (see the post on Saturday 30th October 2010).

Have fun

[GreenV8S]

You should have a metal bracket bolted through the top of the passenger footwell which the fuse / relay panel and ECU are mounted to. But if they've ever been removed it's far easier to just stuff them back into the space and let them sit on the carpet cover along with the excess wiring loom, so not surprising this is how you found it.

[Bobhon]

On my V8S the bracket was there but it didn't have any mounting holes and the harness and ECU would fall down on every bump in the road. So I stuck some sticky back velcro on the bracket and the ECU.

Never fell down again. Quick, cheap fix.

Bob