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Mitch McKee: Why Tuning is Changing and McLarens Hurt Themselves

The Smoking Tire

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You Know, It's Like Learning Anything

I was just barely scratching the surface of kind of, you know, the things I know today. It's like learning anything. You can destroy an ECU or a car very easily. The most memorable event is we went to the Texas mile when I was at AMS and I just started reverse engineering the Porsche's. We had an on at 7.1 turbo and we were trying to run it and what I thought was a boost control table was a throttle table. So, I turned it up. When the owner, Martin, started the car to run the event, it started the car and the thing just sat on the rev limiter.

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