His skills in microelectronics enabled Rob Young to establish one of the UK’s most successful performance upgrade businesses, DmsAutomotive. We explore his Life & Cars -
So Mariusz got a new sleeve for the bearing made in Poland, and then we stripped it out on the bench – and there’s no handbook for that car – and put it all back together. I love starting with a problem, even if it’s really stressy, and then getting to the solution.
Back in the era of the Sierra Cosworth when everyone was tuning them, they’d put a stronger spring on the actuator and then alter the fuelling within the ECU. Before that, with set-ups such as Bosch K-Jetronic, air was drawn through a flap with a potentiometer on it and you’d just bend the flap. But the thing that really set us off being particularly busy was around 1998/99 when electronic control systems really began to develop.
So suddenly hardly anybody could tune all these new ECUs, and not only did I have the direct work for customers, I’d have other companies sending me an ECU, I’d do it for them, and they’d even give me the software, and then I’d do the turnaround. I did that for the first year, and then we worked exclusively for us after that. Now there is so much depth to the software, there’s so much that you can do with different maps and the technology.
Another big thing for us was when someone rang up one day and said: ‘I’m from the Ferrari Club Singapore, can you tune these cars?’ Manufacturers were making a separate spec for hotter climates, often with less power, so there was a big grey import scene and those cars were going wrong – they’ve only got 95 RON to run on over there, so suddenly we were doings and 550s, detuning them to run on their fuel.
I have cars that are my passion, and then cars that are ‘work cars’. For the former, my first Porsche arrived in 2001, a 996 C4 with factory aero kit – Arctic Silver with Metropole leather. I really liked it at the time. And then I got my dream car, the 996 Turbo. That’s a car I should never, ever have sold. However, I still have my 997 Turbo – a GT2 RS lookalike with 900bhp – and that is simply my ideal Porsche, plus some others.
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