Vote update...

343-276 for the good guys!!!! We have 2 hours to go. You guys are the best!!!!! Thank you!!!!!

My boy Gale kickin ***. I got the couple I'm having dinner with to vote since I can't!

This just in.... We won!!!!! They shut it down. It's official!!!!

Thank you all for your incredible support! I'm blown away! What a great community we have!

You guys broke the system! They haven't had this many votes in any competition ever.

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one should never never underestimate the power of the forum!

Congratulations!!! Remember us in your acceptance speech. :P

Had my family over today was able to get 9 votes out of them and promoted you on all my face book pages/wall.
Congrats brotha! Well deserved win , your car is beautiful, can't wait to see it in the mag. Keep us posted on when it will be in.


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I pushed as hard as I could in the FB forum sectors! :)

Interwebs unite!

Now that your beast is a champion stud, the babies will be ..

Legen..

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Congrats Jason well deserved win! Glad we could all help out :tiphat:

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Guys, we rolled in at 3am, we're getting things organized. I will have an official response later today.

I can't say it enough, Thank you!

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.

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

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Congrats, Gale! Well deserved!

congrats bro!!!! :tup: im very happy that you did it!!

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

Awwww yeeeeeahh!!!!

Can't wait for details and the photo shoot!!

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Free Pillar Gauge mods to everyone that voted! :tup:





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Looks like you've got some work ahead of you :rofl2:

Congrats buddy! Hope we can help you make it to SEMA!

Thank you Sir :tiphat:

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Not much as far as updates go. I have couple pillars that I'm working on for fellow forum members, I have a photoshoot scheduled for next week, and am working on getting parts for Version 2.0 of the 3Gs Customs 370z. Next season is going to be legen.... wait for it.... dary!

Yo Mr Gale, do you have any plans of upgrading the audio in the car? I think in a competition like the last one you were in, that could have helped seen it was a performance auto & sound mag. Id highly rec one of the wicked cas upgrade kits. keeps a very clean look doesnt add a whole bunch of weight and the sound improvement is tremendous.
I actually lost weight when installing mine as i pulled the bose sub and spare out to mount my amp under there.

Just curious is all not that your car needs it at all anyhow

You're right Jim. If I keep showing, stereo will be upgraded, though with the new look next year it may not be needed. If I decide to upgrade, I will do the work myself. I'm MECP certified, IASCA judge certified, and Ontario made car audio installation a real trade, Automotive Electronic Accessory Technician, which I also have. :tup:

awesome.

on a side note id love to snap some pics of items on the M4 and get your thoughts on if you could work your magic on them

I would love to hear your ideas for your M4! Email, FB message, forum PM, phone call. Whatever is best for you.

Audio upgrades not necessary? Stripping the interior and welding in a full cage? Because race car.

Keep this on your list. JB4. Think Uprev for BMW. A tune alone will net you some power on that TT motor.

That's not a bad idea. :icon17:

Fab'd up a couple simple parts for the GaleForce Z. I'll post pics later today or tomorrow. :tup:

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Any fitment experts following my thread?

Toying with this idea....

Front

20x10 offset 25 with 275/30/20

Rear

20x10.5 offset 22 with 285/30/20

My current set-up is,

Front
19x9.5 offset 20 with 255/35/19

Rear
19x11 offset 18 with 305/30/19


Thoughts?

In the front you will basically be the same on the outer face and almost 1/2" more (closer to engine bay) on the inner face. Rear is almost 1/2" further out on the outer face (away from car) and almost the almost the same as current on the inner face. Not sure how much room you have in there, especially since Chuck's Z is the only one I've been under for an extended amount of time.

What I don't have a good feeling for is the extra 1" in diameter.

Any time I see a 370 that makes me say "damn, that's a good fitment," it's usually on 20"s. The fact that there is practically no sidewall sucks, but 20"s look great on our cars.

I think the rears will be fine. Mine are 20x10.5 +20 with lots of room on 285/30/20
(camber kit required)
Edit: i think with 275/30/20 in the front you'll have serious issues rubbing.