Mid Ohio Continental challenge Doran 370Z RC
 

It's officially Mid Ohio week for the Grand Am Conti Challenge series.
As some of you may know... Doran racing has been hard at work putting the 370z RC back together after the turn 1 incident at Barber back in March.
The car spent over a week on the frame rack getting back square... the new quarter panels... paint... and then back home to our stable.
The second part of this cars development went into full swing as work began on our own projects with the car.
The team has opted to go with the spec Bosch motorsports ecu... This meant a major project in engine harness ... changes to our chassis harness... and starting from absolute scratch on the engine mapping.
The swapping to this ecu will give the team a much more detailed engine map and better throttle response.
Along with this we have also now dry sumped the engine which should help in a couple areas and possibly another few ponies.
The biggest overhaul has been on the suspension where we have designed our own bushings through the entire car, new upper control arms (version 2) new front and rear sway bars with adjustable blades, and new rear control arms.
From all indications this will be a whole new car from what we had at Barber... Especially in the suspension department.
We move in Thursday am... And begin testing Thursday afternoon.
And so.....the journey begins.... again
Dwnshift

Dry sump? I'm in for pics on that....Can you show some? If not I understand. If you go dry sump do you run the cooler lines from the oil tank? Where did you fit the oil tank? Now that would be a cool kit to make for the Z masses, a dry sump oil kit using a CNC oil tank with fittings, super easy oil changes..My Aprilias and KTM bikes are dry sump.

Represent boys!

Eat 'em up! Wish I could come down for the race.

Good luck guys. :tup:

Made that race last year. Wish I could make it this year. :mad:

Let's do this......
;)
Dwnshift

Good luck guys. Show those damn mustangs and camaros how it's done.

Congratulations on pole position! Unbelievable. Wish I was there to watch.

:tup: yowza great job guys !

Link to pole article.....

Fast Buckeyes win poles for Mid-Ohio Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge race

OMG!!! That's wild! Congrats to you and to Bryan! He is our local AX star turned big time racer! New car and new driver getting pole is just awesome! Not many people understand how hard that is to do in this series. You guys have my attention now! What did you do to make the car work so much better?

Thanks guys.... Still lots of work to do and tomorrow is a different day...bigger battle.
I thnk we have turned some heads...
Bryan did a great job in quali today...
The team has been busting tail trying bug suspension swings and we kept chopping wood every session.... And on old tires. We were hopeful that when we went to stickers it would wake it up a bit.
Again.... today was was goooooood day...
Let's do this
;)
Dwnshift

OMG!!! I'm so freakin' excited I could pee.
I didn't realize Bryan was driving for you guys. Me thinks he likes this track. 12th last fall and 1st this time. This is so awesome.

And to add to the mojo. I'm on my way to the beach and the hotel I booked is right across the street from a Nissan dealer!

Huge congrats on the pole. This is so cool and I wish I was there.

Last couple minutes, this ***** getting exciting!

Great result! Can't wait to see the race on the 17th!