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GaleForce · 07-21-2014, 09:09 PM

Thank you!

To say that this has been a hectic week would be an understatement. With Importfest 2014 less than a week away I was still fabricating and installing parts on the 3Gs Customs 370z. I had 9 hrs sleep in the last 72 hours leading up to the show. I was clear coating and polishing carbon fibre panels the morning of the show setup day and still needed to clean the car top to bottom, inside and out, it hadn’t been cleaned since last fall when I put it in winter storage. My wife Julie was helping all along and was even sanding carbon fibre panels at 4am thursday night/friday morning.

Lets go back in time a bit. For some reason I had the great idea of entering Tuner Battlergrounds Live at the last minute. The winner would get a trophy and a feature in Performance Autosound Magazine. Getting a car into a magazine has always been a dream of mine so I thought why not try. I didn’t expect to go far because there are some really amazing vehicles at Importfest with many people being sponsored, or belonging to a large team. I am an independent. *Well sort of…

Forward to Monday July 21. Stage 1 for Tuner Battlegrounds Live began with voting beginning at 10am and ending Wednesday July 23 at noon. When 10 o'clock rolled around I noticed my car wasn’t on the Tuner Battlegrounds website as a competitor. I thought to myself that I entered too late to qualify. I sent a message to the organizers and they loaded up my profile shortly after. I was already behind in the votes as the other competitors had a hour and a half advantage.

I decided to start a thread on the370z.com looking for support and the race was on! The competition started off with 17 competitors, only the top 4 people with the most votes would move on to Round 2. After lagging behind for a little bit I asked Trips if there was anything he could do to help. He made my “Help a forum brother realize a dream” thread a Sticky, and gave me his endorsement. That in itself blew me away. After he did that we moved up to second place. In the final hour of Round 1 a couple competitors made an astonishing surge and we finished in 4th with 145 votes, first place had 170 votes. Excellent! Round 2 here we come!

In Round 2 the four competitors were paired up into two battles. Since we finished 4th, we were battling the 1st place winner, another Z… a 350z, he was the one to beat. This is where you guys started to pour it on. Finishing Round 2 with 240 votes to his 150 we move on to the finals!

The other battle was between a 2003 VW GTI and a turbo charged FR-S. The VW guy has major Facebook contacts and was pulling away from the FR-S. Stefano, the FR-S owner, after stopping my house on the way to Importfest suggested teaming up. I agreed and you guys tried your best to help him out. He was very appreciative by the way.

Enter the Finals. Saturday July 26. Voting method changed to texting TUNER2 to a number if you wanted to vote for me and the time to do it was between noon - 10pm. We started in the lead only to quickly drop back. I think we were 40-50 votes down. I thought it was over. I was going to all the booths to get pictures of the booth girls holding my sign with voting information so i could share it on social media to drum up votes, I was asking other competitors, spectators, anyone that took a picture of my car. It was a lot of work! The VW guy was part of a team, they had 30 members voting, and their friends voting, and their friends friends voting, you get the idea. It was going to be difficult to make a come back. But we did make a comeback. Big time! Votes for us were jumping like crazy, eventually you guys broke the system and voting stopped around 9pm. The system was maxed out. It was a blood bath with a final score of 407-293 for the good guys!!!! The score was the highest they have ever seen in competition!!!!

The GaleForce 370z is the 2014 Importfest Tuner Battlergrounds Live Champion!

On top of that I also won top of my class, 2014 Importfest 1st place Baddest Nissan 370z!

Thank you, to everyone who helped. My successes couldn't have happened without the members on this forum. I am grateful to be part of this community and to be able to call it’s members my friends.

TL

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You guys rock, thank you for your help, support, and friendship!

UPDATE!!!!!!

I have just been informed by the PASMAG people that there is a chance we could have the GaleForce 370z competing at SEMA 2014!!!!

They are saying the top 4 cars will be shipped to SEMA in Vegas to compete for a "Grand Prize". I don't have any details yet as to what the next step is, but will keep you guys informed.

There is some/limited info on there site,

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GaleForce A True Z Fanatic Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 21,749 Drives: Varis Arising II Rep Power: 51865	Help a forum brother realize a dream. Thank you! To say that this has been a hectic week would be an understatement. With Importfest 2014 less than a week away I was still fabricating and installing parts on the 3Gs Customs 370z. I had 9 hrs sleep in the last 72 hours leading up to the show. I was clear coating and polishing carbon fibre panels the morning of the show setup day and still needed to clean the car top to bottom, inside and out, it hadn’t been cleaned since last fall when I put it in winter storage. My wife Julie was helping all along and was even sanding carbon fibre panels at 4am thursday night/friday morning. Lets go back in time a bit. For some reason I had the great idea of entering Tuner Battlergrounds Live at the last minute. The winner would get a trophy and a feature in Performance Autosound Magazine. Getting a car into a magazine has always been a dream of mine so I thought why not try. I didn’t expect to go far because there are some really amazing vehicles at Importfest with many people being sponsored, or belonging to a large team. I am an independent. Well sort of… Forward to Monday July 21. Stage 1 for Tuner Battlegrounds Live began with voting beginning at 10am and ending Wednesday July 23 at noon. When 10 o'clock rolled around I noticed my car wasn’t on the Tuner Battlegrounds website as a competitor. I thought to myself that I entered too late to qualify. I sent a message to the organizers and they loaded up my profile shortly after. I was already behind in the votes as the other competitors had a hour and a half advantage. I decided to start a thread on the370z.com looking for support and the race was on! The competition started off with 17 competitors, only the top 4 people with the most votes would move on to Round 2. After lagging behind for a little bit I asked Trips if there was anything he could do to help. He made my “Help a forum brother realize a dream” thread a Sticky, and gave me his endorsement. That in itself blew me away. After he did that we moved up to second place. In the final hour of Round 1 a couple competitors made an astonishing surge and we finished in 4th with 145 votes, first place had 170 votes. Excellent! Round 2 here we come! In Round 2 the four competitors were paired up into two battles. Since we finished 4th, we were battling the 1st place winner, another Z… a 350z, he was the one to beat. This is where you guys started to pour it on. Finishing Round 2 with 240 votes to his 150 we move on to the finals! The other battle was between a 2003 VW GTI and a turbo charged FR-S. The VW guy has major Facebook contacts and was pulling away from the FR-S. Stefano, the FR-S owner, after stopping my house on the way to Importfest suggested teaming up. I agreed and you guys tried your best to help him out. He was very appreciative by the way. Enter the Finals. Saturday July 26. Voting method changed to texting TUNER2 to a number if you wanted to vote for me and the time to do it was between noon - 10pm. We started in the lead only to quickly drop back. I think we were 40-50 votes down. I thought it was over. I was going to all the booths to get pictures of the booth girls holding my sign with voting information so i could share it on social media to drum up votes, I was asking other competitors, spectators, anyone that took a picture of my car. It was a lot of work! The VW guy was part of a team, they had 30 members voting, and their friends voting, and their friends friends voting, you get the idea. It was going to be difficult to make a come back. But we did make a comeback. Big time! Votes for us were jumping like crazy, eventually you guys broke the system and voting stopped around 9pm. The system was maxed out. It was a blood bath with a final score of 407-293 for the good guys!!!! The score was the highest they have ever seen in competition!!!! The GaleForce 370z is the 2014 Importfest Tuner Battlergrounds Live Champion! On top of that I also won top of my class, 2014 Importfest 1st place Baddest Nissan 370z! Thank you, to everyone who helped. My successes couldn't have happened without the members on this forum. I am grateful to be part of this community and to be able to call it’s members my friends. TLR You guys rock, thank you for your help, support, and friendship! UPDATE!!!!!!* I have just been informed by the PASMAG people that there is a chance we could have the GaleForce 370z competing at SEMA 2014!!!! They are saying the top 4 cars will be shipped to SEMA in Vegas to compete for a "Grand Prize". I don't have any details yet as to what the next step is, but will keep you guys informed. There is some/limited info on there site, Home - PASMAG Tuner Battlegrounds ( Click to show/hide ) Final round!!!!!!!! You guys are incredible. With your hard work we made it to the finals! I'm pumped!!!!! Here is the voting info for the final round. Winner gets a feature magazine spread in Performance Auto Sound Magazine! This is a dream of mine! This round is text based, Text TUNER2 to 37607 between 12pm - 10pm EST if you like my Nissan 370z. To stay on top of the action click this link, Importfest Toronto 2014 Standings - PASMAG Tuner Battlegrounds Hi guys. Sorry for the silence. things are crazy here my phone is nearly dead, and I just got my laptop hooked up and teathered. I don't know how much or how long I'll be online today. I appreciate your help you guys are the best! I don't know who this VW kid knows but he is king of contacts. I'm trying to promote the heck out of the car for us..... Here is the direct link to real time results Realtime voting results for Tuner Battlegrounds In the meantime here's some eye candy fro you guys.... Round 2 ( Click to show/hide ) We did it!!!! We finished Round 1 in the top 4!!!. This means we continue to Round 2! Excellent job guys! When can you vote? Voting for Round 2 begins tomorrow July 24 at 10am EST and end Friday July 25 at 12pm EST (noon) If you vote before noon tomorrow, you will be able to vote again on Friday. Below is the procedure for voting 1. Click Jason Gale - PASMAG Tuner Battlegrounds 2a. If using a mobile device, Go to the bottom sign in using Facebook- VERY IMPORTANT OR ELSE THE VOTE WONT REGISTER- 2b. If using a desktop, Look for the Facebook log in button at the top right of the screen- VERY IMPORTANT OR ELSE THE VOTE WONT REGISTER- 3. Go to the top of the page once signed in through facebook and press the star to vote ! Winner will be in PASMAG!! Which is a dream come true! Please take your time to vote , I appreciate all your votes Who are we battling in STAGE 2? We are in Battle 1 going against a 2004 Nissan 350z. If we have more votes than him by 12pm EST July25, we will be finalists going to STAGE 3, the last stage where the winner of Battle 1 goes against the winner of battle 2. Battle 1: Sam Afzali (2004 Nissan 350Z) vs Jason Gale (2009 Nissan 370z Sport Touring) Battle 2: Dave D (2003 Volkswagen GTI) vs Stefano Vacirca (2013 Scion FR-S) Info from the Tuner Battlegrounds web site Importfest Toronto 2014 - PASMAG Tuner Battlegrounds STAGE 2: TOP 4 COMPETITORS Voting Period: July 24, 2014 @ 10:00am - July 25, 2014 @ 12:00pm ET To vote for your favorite competitor, login with your Facebook credentials (desktop mode: top-right; mobile mode: bottom), click on the competitor name/profile then click the star on their page. During the Elimination Stages, voting limited to 1(one) vote per 24 hours per Facebook account of the posted Selected Competitors. In the Final Stage, voting is limited to 1(one) vote per telephone number of the posted Finalists. Standings/Results Round 1 ( Click to show/hide ) Have you ever wanted to put a smile on a grown mans face? If you answered yes, read on! If you answered no, or are still thinking about it, read on anyways, your secret is safe with me. Many of you have seen this on Facebook already and have helped me out. Thank you! For those who haven't read it on FB yet, I'm looking for some help to realize a long time dream of mine. My 370z is showing this weekend at Importfest. Part of that show is Tuner Battlegrounds. The winner gets a spot in PAS Magazine. You can help make my dream a reality! This is where you can help me win. Go to the link below, once on that site, use the Facebook link to log into your FB account, then click the star next to my name to vote. The vote will not count if you don't log onto FB from there. This is Stage 1. I need to make it to the top 4 to progress to the next round. Stage 1 ends July 23, you can vote once in every 24 hour period. I appreciate all help. Thank you! Let's get a Z34 to the top! Jason Gale - PASMAG Tuner Battlegrounds __________________ >>>GaleForce's Build<<< >>>FaceBook @3GsCustoms<<<>>>Instagram @GaleForce370z<<< Varis Kamikaze-Z Last edited by GaleForce; 07-28-2014 at 09:16 AM.