Thad Norman (Hypercar Development, Triple-turbo McLarens!)

The Smoking Tire

Zack Klapman, Matt Farah

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🗓️ 13 April 2017

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

This week we welcome Thad Norman from Hypercar Development joins us to talk about their insane 3 turbo compound McLarens. Matt drove one of their cars several months back and came away thoroughly impressed. Beyond McLaren's Thad shares a lot of knowledge on how warranties are affected by ECU tuning, the ins-and-outs of dyno accuracy and just how modular the McLaren lineup is.

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0:30.0	Yellow!
0:35.0	It's one of the entire podcast, Energy.
0:37.7	Summon Energy.
0:38.7	I've been on a mountain for a few hours, so we're trying to summon energy.
0:41.9	It's here.
0:42.9	Now, okay, cool.
0:43.9	Welcome to the show.
0:45.4	Thad Norman from Hypercar Development is here.
0:49.7	One of the few people out there tuning McLaren's.
0:52.8	So interesting perspective on exotic tuning.
0:56.6	And welcome sir.
0:57.6	Thank you.
0:58.6	Thank you for coming.
0:59.6	You guys are kind of a bicostle shop.
1:01.6	You got North Carolina and LA.
1:04.0	Now you've got a shop out here.
1:06.0	So what's the McLaren tuning business like?
1:08.6	How do you decide to do that?
1:10.2	Staying busy.
1:11.2	Well, we definitely saw an opportunity when McLaren came out with the 12C and the P1.
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