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Mitch McKee: Why Tuning is Changing and McLarens Hurt Themselves

The Smoking Tire

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Cobb Engineering - It's a Big Leap, You Know?

McLaren is kind of how M engineering started. I ended up flying all over the world to tune McLarens and it was starting to consume so much time, but also found that Cobb was becoming a bigger company. So I kind of wanted to just go out of my own and see what, you know, just see what I could do. Dino Spectrum is a company that we made that does mostly outies. It does like the four liter, like older RS7s, twin turbo versions and then RS3 and then the V10s. We actually manufactured a device that plugs in to cars and it went pretty deep into the ECU deeper than I think anybody really has. And

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