track prepping a McLaren

A long time customer of mine from FL sent us his car recently sent us his track car (MP412c) Over time, the tips kept retaining too much heat and melted the bumper. He also wanted us to retune the car, there are intermittent CEL's, and in his words "the car just doesn't feel like it's at 100% power). Fast forward to a month ago, and I was arranging transport to get the car up here for an exhaust re-design and a real, dyno tune.

 

With the car apart, I wanted to share pictures of what we are doing. The new exhaust is being built from 321 stainless (a titanium, stainless blend) which has EXCELLENT heat performance. Once the exhaust was taken off we notices there is coolant EVERYWHERE. The coolant reservoir is TINY for the amount of power the car is making, and with the owner hot-lapping the car in some seriously hot temps (Orlando, FL), that really isn't a huge surprise. Now the plan has evolved from a simple exhaust and tune, to exhaust, tune, and a larger (roughly 2x bigger) aluminum coolant reservoir that shouldn't have any problem overflowing in the hot FL weather during hot laps.

 

I will keep the thread updated with pictures and video! As always, any pictures... please do not hesitate to call, email, post here, etc.

 

 

all the pretty 321

 

 

Coolant everywhere

 

 

melted nonsense

 

In for pics!

we have had a ton of projects in the works, but finally made some progress on the McLaren. The 321 x-pipe is done, satellite foil down, just need to make the tips and we are well on our way!