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Mitch McKee: Why Tuning is Changing and McLarens Hurt Themselves

The Smoking Tire

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The Difference Between McLaren and Mercedes

A lot of the ECUs are actually the same exact ECUs. It's just that it's like some Bosch fucking thing. So while a lot of them are similar in a lot of ways, they also have some pretty big differences. For instance, McLaren in the 720s, the waste gates aren't really controlled by the ECU. They're actually controlled by the transmission controller. This makes it very hard for tuners because they don't have access to the trans where we wrote custom code and do whatever we want with the waste gates. And it's just that knowledge, that really deep understanding of how these things are working that make us make our product better. Do you have

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