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#100 David Pook | Life 110 (Tuning Alpine A110s)

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David Pook is a specialist in vehicle dynamics, having worked previously for JLR SVO Division bringing you cars such as the Project 8. He founded Life 110 to bring that knowledge and consequently products to the Alpine A110.

Life 110: https://www.instagram.com/alpine_life110

https://life110.co.uk

Hope you enjoy,

Sam

Audio Podcast:

https://linktr.ee/carchatpodcast

Support The Podcast:

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Show Notes:

00:00 - Intro

02:29 - What is Vehicle Dynamics

10:40 - Designing Cars for Local Roads

18:50 - David’s Career in Vehicle Dynamics

26:09 - Modelling Ride and Handling

42:19 - What was the Ethos of JLR SVO

59:17 - Life110

1:16:16 - Perfecting the A110

1:30:03 - Jaguar Project 8

1:35:42 - The Future of Life110

1:39:25 - 5 Questions

Car Chat Podcast #79 - Iain Litchfield | Litchfield Motors

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Iain Litchfield is the founder of Litchfield Motors (@litchfieldmotors). Litchfield provides tuning options for a wide variety of cars and probably best known for Nissan GT-Rs.

https://www.litchfieldmotors.com

Hope You Enjoy,

Sam

Support The Podcast:
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Show Notes:

00:00 = Intro + the birth of Litchfield
07:07 = Starting working with GT-Rs
09:55 = What is the aim of a Litchfield GT-R kit?
11:57 = Can you explain the tuning Stage system?
13:38 = Expanding into other cars, Alpine A110
15:00 = Yaris GR
17:52 = 911 T + 992
19:45 = Why is it easy to get power out of these engines
22:08 = Warranties
27:00 = Do you need to run specific fuel when you've mapped an engine?
28:43 = Tuning Mclarens
31:02 = Scariest builds... + diffs in Mclarens
41:30 = What is a good tune vs bad tune
45:18 = Any cars in your sights?
49:00 = Suspension (M2, M4 etc)
1:01:00 = 5 Questions