Great to see this topic lives, thanks

research continues.
So, if I understand correctly, dirty repair could be made by desoldering TA8903 entirely and make a wire bypass of +5V to M66207 MCU and figure out if MCU code requires any kind of feedback.
According to the only one schematic I found related to TA8903 and its surroundings (found on hackedecu website), it could be easy to do. Unfortunately I was not successful when looking for TA8903 datasheet and so I have the only pinout information from this image.

Some slight information could be extracted from schematics on
this image (i would love to give a credit but I really don't know who made it - most probably someone from pgmfi but can't find.)
I also found a datasheet of TA8000S - it's the other part with other pinout but as some labels are quite similar and purpose of this IC is close to TA8903, I consider this as a very rough inspiration how things work in TA8903. (datasheet
/pgmfi/forum/media/18/18075fe2275acf26f8b661af2699c8cfca65e18a30613e1ac216f4beab07a11f.pdf )
So, what could be worth trying:
- desolder TA8903 from PCB- pin 1 was Vcc of TA8903 - not needed anymore
- pin 2 was BIAS of TA8903 - connected to +5V, not needed anymore
- pin 3 was ??? of TA8903 - connected to bypass cap 10n (C82) and to pin 13 of 74HC00 (IC20) -
probably would be OK connect to ground- pin 4 was ??? of TA8903 - was connected via 10k resistor to +Vcc - not needed anymore
- pins 5 and 6 of TA8903 - ground, not needed anymore
- pin 7 seems to be reset watchdog timer (resistor pullup, capacitor to ground = typical reset pulse circuit), not needed anymore
- pin 8 seems to be quite complicated, see later.
- pin 9 was ??? of TA8903 and was somehow related to D11 pin of ECU (backup power) - most likely this is only an input for TA8903 so it's not needed anymore
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connect pin 10 to ground so Q6 completely opens (however I don't really understand why Q6 works if D7 de facto bypasses +5V to "output")
// in second schematic the transistor is called Q4 with different surroundings - but the "core" logic is the same,
GNDing pin 10 opens transistor and transistor puts +5V into MCU pin 64 (VDD) and IC20 74HC00 power pin (VDD)- pin 11 is not mentioned on any schematics - let's omit it, if it is not okay let's try different logic levels to pin 9 of 74HC541 (and figure out which pin of 82C55 is powered by this IC - output of 74HC541 input pin 9 is on pin 11)
- pin 12 was some kind of output, my guess is "power good" signal to MCU pin 47 (port P4.1 = TM1CK?) -
probably would be OK connect to ground so MCU P4.1 gets logic L
Pin 8 have some close relation to NMI trigger of MCU.
It's connected to the following destinations:
- pin 12 of IC20 (74HC00) which is one of two NAND inputs (the second one is from pin 3 of TA8903), I wonder where output of this NAND gate is connected (pin 11), have to check on some ECU
- pin 12 of M7U016 - i have no information about this IC

- pin 33 of MCU 66207 = NMI (inverted logic)
- two bypass capacitors (1nF)
If NMI is not to be triggered, I assume that pin 8 has to have logic H so it's interpreted as "no NMI".
Do anyone have some ECU with fuel pump delay so this "TA8903 elimination" could be tested? Unfortunately I don't have any ECU with this problem left as I used those ECUs for parts