Saving McLarens; Hacking ECUs; Tuning the Right Way - TST Podcast

When it comes to engine tuning, Mitch McKee knows it. He spent years working for Vivid racing and COBB before opening his own company, M Engineering. They write software (and some hardware) upgrades for high-dollar exotics like McLaren, Porsche, and Lamborghini. As you'll learn from the show, they don't do simple reflash or throttle maps, either. They're so good, in fact, that OEMs hire them to prevent cheating in racing team ECUs.


We talk about Mitch's unorthodox start; why his approach is different; the challenge that is tuning a modern ECU; OEM security; why McLarens explode; why he doesn't tune Ferraris; Pikes Peak; and more.


From his page: Mitch is an engine and transmission calibrator with over 15 years of hands on experience. Mitch has contributed calibrations to multiple high caliber, championship winning teams over a wide variety of racing disciplines, including road racing, drag racing, hill climbs, rally racing, and drifting. As a reverse engineer, Mitch was the lead on a project that was responsible for bringing Porsche aftermarket engine and transmission tuning to the mass market. Mitch has also consulted with multiple OEM part manufacturers for various products. 


https://www.m-engineering.us/pages/ab...
https://www.dynospectrum.com/

Recorded January 4, 2023


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0:00 McLaren Preview
1:12 Sponsors
8:43 Show Contents
9:41 Start + Pikes Peak Porsche
14:43 Fixing Dai Yoshiharas car
18:15 Ken Block
19:10 Mitch is THE BEST
22:07 German cars are a black art
24:18 Tuning languages
26:20 No formal education
27:23 Breaking cars
28:55 Tuning McLarens
30:00 Starting a new company
30:35 Dyno spectrum
33:35 Why McLarens tune well
37:20 Cammisa’s 1hp cams
39:25 Untunable cars
42:14 Easiest cars to tune
43:12 Accused of cheating as a resume
45:27 Customer stereotype differences
46:45 Big McLaren weaknesses
49:08 Rolling Anti-Lag
50:00 V10 Customers
52:02 EV’s are scary fast
55:00 McLaren drag racing record
56:22 Is McLaren leaving a lot on the table?
57:44 Artura
58:40 Tires impact on performance
59:28 Matt’s 720 track day story
1:00:30 Why guys tune supercars
1:01:53 Half mile vs quarter mile racing
1:07:15 Modifying Ferraris
1:10:10 Hybrid Supercars
1:12:50 Porsche Hybrids
1:14:03 Tuning a 918
1:14:30 Tuning the Deman 4.5
1:19:09 Base Porsche tuning
1:21:10 Cars NOT to touch
1:24:00 Patreon
1:24:26 Factory vs Aftermarket downpipe
1:26:32 Locking down ECU’s
1:27:47 Direct injection maintenance
1:29:37 991.2 GT2RS
1:30:47 Porsche PDK improvements
1:32:45 Cayman with more power
1:33:10 4 cylinder GTS Boxster
1:34:26 Highly boosted 4 cylinder cars
1:35:38 Not discoverable tunes
1:38:55 Odometer rollbacks
1:43:00 M Engineering Tuning



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