Thank you!! - 2014 Tuner Battleground Results

GaleForce · 07-27-2014, 05:58 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

R

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

Z_ealot · 07-27-2014, 07:28 PM

reaction of VW guy after results were in:

the part of the emperor of course being given to Gale

Ubetit · 07-27-2014, 08:40 PM

Congrats man. You have an awesome car

Chuy · 07-27-2014, 08:44 PM

Congratulations

Trips · 07-27-2014, 08:48 PM

Once again Congrats!!

Thank You, and also Thanks again to everyone who helped to make this happen.

It makes me very proud of the members we have.

kenchan · 07-27-2014, 09:35 PM

Congrats, mr.gale!!!

axmea? · 07-28-2014, 12:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Trips

Once again Congrats!!

Thank You, and also Thanks again to everyone who helped to make this happen.

It makes me very proud of the members we have.

Great call helping Jason out via sticky G! You sir gots class.

Felix 808 · 07-28-2014, 12:58 AM

Nice job.

Congrats Jason, enjoy your fifteen minutes

karotZ · 07-28-2014, 01:43 AM

Nice! Now drive down here in California for a real battle. lol j/k good job! I love that molded front end.

exsanity · 07-28-2014, 01:50 AM

I demand a copy of the magazine!

Spooler · 07-28-2014, 02:23 AM

Awesome, I am glad you won.

GaleForce · 07-28-2014, 09:13 AM

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

JARblue · 07-28-2014, 09:36 AM

Thanks for representing the 370Z so well!

blobbish · 07-28-2014, 09:40 AM

Sounds like he may not be finished representing just yet!

jpkirk · 07-28-2014, 10:28 AM

Vegas baby!!

That would totally rock. Congrats on the win. Hope it continues.

07-27-2014, 05:58 PM	#1 (permalink)
GaleForce A True Z Fanatic Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 21,749 Drives: Varis Arising II Rep Power: 51865	Thank you!! - 2014 Tuner Battleground Results 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! XwChriswX, 6spd, kenchan and 31 others like this. __________________ >>>GaleForce's Build*<<< >>>FaceBook @3GsCustoms<<<>>>Instagram @GaleForce370z<<< Varis Kamikaze-Z

07-27-2014, 07:28 PM	#2 (permalink)
Z_ealot A True Z Fanatic Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Albuquerque, NM Posts: 2,045 Drives: 09 370Z Touring/Sprt Rep Power: 10091	reaction of VW guy after results were in: the part of the emperor of course being given to Gale GaleForce and Ghostvette like this.

07-27-2014, 08:40 PM	#3 (permalink)
Ubetit Track Member Join Date: May 2012 Location: Ohio Posts: 527 Drives: the women lazy Rep Power: 14	Congrats man. You have an awesome car GaleForce likes this.

07-27-2014, 08:44 PM	#4 (permalink)
Chuy Enthusiast Member Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Colorado Springs Posts: 474 Drives: 2015 NISMO Rep Power: 15	Congratulations GaleForce likes this. __________________ Miko 2015 Nismo Tech: nothing RIP Ginger 2009 370Z Sport Touring

07-27-2014, 08:48 PM	#5 (permalink)
Trips Administrator Join Date: May 2009 Location: Disneyland, Ca Posts: 8,730 Drives: 🔰 Rep Power: 10	Once again Congrats!! Thank You, and also Thanks again to everyone who helped to make this happen. It makes me very proud of the members we have. Z_ealot, JARblue, GaleForce and 2 others like this. __________________

07-27-2014, 09:35 PM	#6 (permalink)
kenchan A True Z Fanatic Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: N/A Posts: 76,801 Drives: N/A Rep Power: 141521	Congrats, mr.gale!!! onzedge and GaleForce like this.

07-28-2014, 12:58 AM	#8 (permalink)
Felix 808 A True Z Fanatic Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Camarillo, CA Posts: 1,063 Drives: 2011 PW/Grey T/S 7AT Rep Power: 2807	Nice job. Congrats Jason, enjoy your fifteen minutes GaleForce likes this. __________________ Semper Fi Μολὼν λαβέ

07-28-2014, 01:43 AM	#9 (permalink)
karotZ Track Member Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: not found Posts: 723 Drives: on empty tank of gas Rep Power: 15	Nice! Now drive down here in California for a real battle. lol j/k good job! I love that molded front end. GaleForce and DEpointfive0 like this. __________________ VERTEX \| SUIVAX \| AMUSE \| SSR \| SPARCO \| STILLEN \| FAST INTENTIONS x HKS \| HANKOOK \| NARDI \| NRG \| EVO-R \| ROBISPEC \| SPC

07-28-2014, 01:50 AM	#10 (permalink)
exsanity Premium Member Join Date: Oct 2013 Location: Middle Tennessee Posts: 10,499 Drives: you mad.. Rep Power: 3700	I demand a copy of the magazine! GaleForce and DEpointfive0 like this.

07-28-2014, 02:23 AM	#11 (permalink)
Spooler A True Z Fanatic Join Date: Jun 2014 Location: Ga Posts: 13,791 Drives: 2013 Nismo 370z Rep Power: 2684392	Awesome, I am glad you won. GaleForce likes this.

07-28-2014, 09:13 AM	#12 (permalink)
GaleForce A True Z Fanatic Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 21,749 Drives: Varis Arising II Rep Power: 51865	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 kenchan, JARblue, alcheng and 6 others like this. __________________ >>>GaleForce's Build<<< >>>FaceBook @3GsCustoms<<<>>>Instagram @GaleForce370z<<< Varis Kamikaze-Z

07-28-2014, 09:36 AM	#13 (permalink)
JARblue A True Z Fanatic Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Austin, TX Age: 43 Posts: 36,450 Drives: 11 Z34, 98 E36 M3 Rep Power: 2684440	Thanks for representing the 370Z so well! GaleForce likes this. __________________ 2011 370Z 6MT Sport Gun Metallic \| ARC \| CJM \| Ecutek \| FI \| Fujimura \| R2C \| SPL \| Stillen \| TWM \| Z1 \| ZSpeed \|

07-28-2014, 09:40 AM	#14 (permalink)
blobbish Base Member Join Date: Feb 2014 Location: UK Posts: 58 Drives: 370z Black Edition Rep Power: 15	Sounds like he may not be finished representing just yet! GaleForce likes this.

07-28-2014, 10:28 AM	#15 (permalink)
jpkirk A True Z Fanatic Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Merry Land Posts: 5,515 Drives: '14 MidBlu ST MT Rep Power: 3376	Vegas baby!! That would totally rock. Congrats on the win. Hope it continues. GaleForce likes this. __________________ intake \| exhaust \| wheels \| tires \| suspension ... um ... stock, do speed stickers count? intake \| exhaust \| TE37 SL \| RE-11 \| suspension ... um ... do speed stickers count? Signature under construction

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