I've been a little tied up with work the past few days, but had an opportunity to progress this project a bit this evening.
The Motronic DME has been removed, along with the wiring harness - well, at least the harness is out of the engine compartment. I thought this was going to be more difficult that it ended up being.
Taking a page out of a similar project I had read on this forum, from quite a few years ago, I plan on leveraging the connections available at the DME relay for power, ignition switched power and a power lead to the fused fuel pump line. More pictures on that later.
The engine compartment is cleaning up nicely, and beginning to look much less cluttered. I did a few other uninstalls (like the rear wiper), in order to remove stuff I don't use and would just add to the clutter of the engine if not needed.
Al says the ECU and wiring harness may ship this week - so it won't be long before the tear down stops and the install begins!
It's hard to see in this, but in order to reuse the wiring that went to the DME relay, I need to disentangle that part of the wiring from the main DME wiring, along with the wiring that runs from the DME to the front of the car.
I'll be able to mount the AEM ECU on the driver side rear passenger footwell, and reuse the factory cutout for the Motronic wiring harness for the Rasant wiring harness.
A much less cluttered engine compartment
And a perfectly good Motronic ECU that will be going up for sale shortly.