Delighted to carry on in our third year of support for Mark and his Greystone Track day operations and support all the Mclaren owners in keeping their cars track ready at Silverstone this month all for free. As usual we carried out the official Mclaren track day...
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The Mysterious Hole – update
Remember the oil tank issue we discovered on Mclaren cars? if not the initial story is HERE where we had a car with a hole in the oil catch tank and no real way of understanding how the hole happened? Well, now we know. By way of a recap, all Mclaren models have a dry...
Mclaren Engine Advice
It has come to our attention that it is possible to cause engine damage to Mclaren cars if the car is run with low oil pressure or low oil level. Now this may sound a bit 'well, really' but due to the potential consequences resulting from such action we feel it...
MSV Track Day Championship Round 1
You never know what will happen with a new season and its fair to say that this one was a bit of a surprise. Pre-season went well, the car has been heavily updated with new brakes, aero, less weight, new exhaust but the one thing we didnt touch was the power, plan was...
HydroFlow Engine Cleaning
Thorney Motorsport has been in the business of tuning cars for over 20 years and its fair to say we have seen our share of 'snake oil' products to emerge promising all kinds of performance gains. Oil additives, spurious petrol claims, engine flush treatments, pretty...
Thorney Motorsport FIA cage competing in 2019 Dakar Rally
We are delighted to be able to support Ignacio Casale in his entry to the 2019 Dakar in his Yamaha YXZ1000 by supplying one of our FIA approved and certificated race cages. Ignacio, a Redbull supported athlete chose our cage to ensure the stiffest chassis as well as...
Badger Oak Sponsors Day
To reflect the enhanced support we have had from Badgers Oak this season we decided to host a fun day out for them at Bruntingthorpe Training Ground. Bruntingthorpe is basically an airfield where you can use areas simply for fun and also a short course track to both...
The mysterious Hole
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...
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.
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