Tuned In

What does it take to run multiple cars at some of the world's toughest endurance races? Is the life of a top-tier race engineer as glamorous as it all seems? And what's the difference between GT3 and GTE classes anyway? Listen to this week's 'HPA Tuned In' podcast to find out.

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Race Engineer Arne Peeters has spent the better part of the last decade working across Europe and North America for both OEMs and race teams alike, all in the never-ending hunt for more performance and better results. In this episode of HPA's 'Tuned In' we discuss how Arne set his career in motion, his time spent perfecting OEM vehicles for the mass market, and the many intricacies and challenges involved with running teams in endurance racing across the world.

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We also spend time talking about the big gap between amateur drivers and true professionals, and how important it is that a racecar's setup accurately reflect a driver's skill level — something that can be quite challenging when you have people of different abilities on the same team. The importance of understanding and making the most of aerodynamics is also delved into, as well as thoughts on achieving the perfect car balance, the compromises that need to be made to have a career in top-tier motorsport, and plenty more.

How should I learn how to tune? Do you need to be a mechanic to be the best EFI tuner? Let's find out.

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Chris Wall of Prestige Tuning and Motorsport is easily one of New Zealand's leading, and busiest, EFI Tuners. In this episode of HPA's 'Tuned In' we're going to talk about how he got started with tuning, his time working with Andre at STM (the tuning shop from which HPA was born) along with insight into how to get started, and more importantly how to be the best tuner you can.

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Some other topics also discussed in this in-depth episode focus around Chris's trackside support role he offers to some customers, how he guides customers to make the best choices they can for their ECU and tuning upgrades for their application, when reflash tuning is better than fitting an aftermarket ECU, the future of reflash tuning, what motorsport disciples are the hardest on gear and much much more than we can fit in a description, so have a listen.

What are some of the BEST 'bang for buck' modifications you can do to your car gain performance and improve your lap times?

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In this episode of  Tuned In, Andre & Tim are talking to Grant Hosking from Honed Developments about their the technical skills and desire to develop specialist components for various Honda vehicles with a focus on the 90s models.

Topics discussed are the reason why Honed was created and the philosophy behind what parts Honed decided to make. The biggest errors people make when modifying cars and what can actually prove to be the biggest gains with modifications.

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Another key point discussed is the approach of tuning car setups for the track vs the road and what the biggest compromises that need to be considered are.

Finding the perfect ECU is hard, but not when you're Scott Kuhner who instead of settling for compromises decided to create & build the EMtron ECU platform himself instead.

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Andre and Tim dive into  a bit of history on EMtron, why Scott wanted to create his own ECU and what is the process to do so was, along with the experience/knowledge he had before starting plus what he's learnt along the way.

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Also talked about is what goes into developing an industry leading ECU, what functions EMtron is bringing to the aftermarket world such as 'Geo Fencing' and 'Throttle Mass Flow'. Scott also gives us insight into the future for EMtron, what sort of development path is the ECU brand heading towards and what potential new products are in the pipeline.

Andre & Tim talk with Myles Kerr from English Racing, a performance workshop developing high performance and world record breaking custom builds who's work has previously featured on our YouTube channel.

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We will dive into what Myles' does is at English Racing to help make sure customers are realistic of the demands of a high performance build for the street and or track, and how he transitioned from a customer service role to building his own 1400WHP Honda Integra.

Myles' 'Gringotegra' is far from any normal Integra, with 1400WHP, a 4WD conversion and many other modifications. We talk reliability issues such a build presents and how he manages to overcome them in order to daily drive this insane Integra.

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Also touched on is tuning philosophies around half mile drag racing and how they manage torque management on a 2WD vs 4WD cars. Another point discussed is how much harder on the engine is a half mile drag race compared to a quarter mile drag race.

We’re talking ‘taxi racing’, aka V8 Supercars, Australasia’s premier professional motorsport series in the first ever episode of the ‘Tuned In’ podcast.

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Tickford Racing engineer Sam Potter talks about what being a race engineer involves, how Formula SAE gave him the interest to become one and general topics on his experience in the V8 Supercars and motorsport in general.Data/math channels, vertical load variations, Formula SAE/Formula Student, 2020 V8 Supercar data rule changes, 3D printed parts and much much more are discussed in this comprehensive interview.

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Think we missed a great topic? Let us know in the comments below and we’ll cover it for you in the future.

3000HP+ 4 cylinder drag cars, EKanoo's World Record breaking 5 second door slammer, LMP3-turned-Pikes Peak  hill climbers, 460mph++ land speeders, the list goes on and on, and this is only a portion of what Shane Tecklenburg, aka Shane T of '@TunedByShaneT' is and has been involved with throughout his career.

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Let's dive into some of this along with how his career really got rolling leading to his involvement in projects like this and so much more leading Shane to be one of the most passionate and pointed people we know in the industry.

Also discussed are some of the specific challenges of tuning a car to race at Pikes Peak international hill climb which see's competitors finishing at over 14,000ft. That's high enough for aircraft to require the use of oxygen in the cabin.

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NOTE: Some scientists claim swearing can be a sign of intelligence, and if they used Shane as a subject we'd say they're right, so be warned Shane has a 'diverse' vocabulary that may be unsuitable if you're still convinced that your children will never hear such words or use swear words themselves 😅