Hi all,
My fairly new valeo smf and clutch kit has started slipping already so taking the car off the road to save up.
I've been planning on doing a full rebuild on a spare BAM engine I have sitting around with forged rods, relentless v4 mani and bbt k04 hybrid with watermeth etc etc and now the clutch has started slipping badly which isn't good, I need a car to get to work etc I knew I would need to upgrade the clutch for hybrid turbo power and I was getting all the bits together in my own time, build everything up and drop everything literally straight in. This has put a spanner in the works! As the clutch will definately not last much longer so I'm buying a friends fiesta cheap to use and take the leon off the road for a while.
My question is if I disconnect the battery for an extended period of time will it do anything to the ecu? I've been told the ecu has a battery or something and if left without a source to charge from it could potentially wipe the map off of it rendering it useless. Anyone shed any light on this?
Also is there anything else I should do to prepare the car for being off-road?
Thanks in advance
My fairly new valeo smf and clutch kit has started slipping already so taking the car off the road to save up.
I've been planning on doing a full rebuild on a spare BAM engine I have sitting around with forged rods, relentless v4 mani and bbt k04 hybrid with watermeth etc etc and now the clutch has started slipping badly which isn't good, I need a car to get to work etc I knew I would need to upgrade the clutch for hybrid turbo power and I was getting all the bits together in my own time, build everything up and drop everything literally straight in. This has put a spanner in the works! As the clutch will definately not last much longer so I'm buying a friends fiesta cheap to use and take the leon off the road for a while.
My question is if I disconnect the battery for an extended period of time will it do anything to the ecu? I've been told the ecu has a battery or something and if left without a source to charge from it could potentially wipe the map off of it rendering it useless. Anyone shed any light on this?
Also is there anything else I should do to prepare the car for being off-road?
Thanks in advance
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