We love sorting engineering issues, its part of the fun of what we do so when we come up with something that just cant be explained we do love a challenge. Mclaren 12c (same applies to 650s) has a dry sump oil system with a catch tank that just happens to be buried...
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Mclaren Chassis Work
We've been an independent operation since we started nearly 18 years ago and whilst we were a Vauxhall franchised operation for a while we've always enjoyed the freedom that being independent gives you from the manufacturer and their rules and fees. The downside to...
Mclaren Owners Club meet at Cliveden
Small gathering of 20 odd Mclarens and members at the super swan Cliveden House hotel. Great fun and great bunch of people.
Mclaren Owners Club Meet 2018
We are honoured to offer our continued support for the Mclaren Owners Club at their 2018 Annual meet at the Silverstone Classic. 56 cars and over 100 owners all arrived to the Silverstone Classic and were treated to a hog roast under the shade of a nice marquee...
TOYO R888R TYRE TEST AT BRANDS HATCH
The original R888 tyre from Toyo was well known to us, we first starting using the tyre on the Vauxhall VX220 cars and subsequently we raced on the R888 in BMW's and Vauxhalls and it was the preferred tyre for all of our track Vauxhall and BMW models for many years so...
MCLAREN TRACKDAY – SILVERSTONE (SEPT. 2015)
I've been to a fair old few track days (last count I think was near 200+) and I tend not to go to many these days as after racing they always feel a bit pointless. However with development of the MP12 tuning upgrades nearing completion we thought a bit of spirited...
SANTA POD – 2015
All of our tuning and performance upgrades have to undergo an extensive development process before we are happy to release them for sale, fortunately some of these processes are relatively enjoyable (crash testing certainly isn't one of them) one of these being noise...
Le Mans 2015
By John Thorne - Mon, 22 Jun 2015 06:39 Weekend began simply enough, park up at Le Mans after a spirited drive down and as we are unloading the camping stuff we spy a row of expensive looking race trucks in the fenced off car park next door. Then as we were...
24 HEURES DU MANS – 2015
Weekend began simply enough, park up at Le Mans after a spirited drive down and as we are unloading the camping stuff we spy a row of expensive looking race trucks in the fenced off car park next door. Then as we were heading back to the campsite one truck lowers its...
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