ZDayZ 2015 will be May 14-17, 2015

ZDayZ 2014 was EPIC-er-er-er...

Registration

To start any event there is always the paperwork, piles and piles of paperwork.   And for us registration is where ZDayZ paperwork starts.   We’d like to extend a huge thank you to the following clubs for all of their help and support of our event and their hand in getting things started off right.   Registration is NOT a glorious gig, by any stretch of the imagination, but it is absolutely necessary and we cannot thank them enough.   If you or your club helped during the registration part of the ZDayZ weekend, we offer you our extreme gratitude.

              

Forged Performance's 6th Annual ZDayZ Top Dawg Airstrip
The event was even bigger and better than all previous years. We would like to thank the many spectators and participants who came out to enjoy the day at the Hendersonville Airport. Without you, it wouldn't have been such a huge success! Just short of 20 cars, of all makes and models, made runs down the 3000 foot airstrip reaching speeds in excess of 150+ mph, while onlookers enjoyed the sights and sounds in the beautiful afternoon weather. Fast Intentions used the event to unveil their stunning Twin Turbo kit for the 370Z, while making a couple dozen passes down the airstrip to fully demonstrate its capabilities. The final contest would feature the Alpha 10 of Forged Performance, vs. the Alpha 12 of TopSpeed Motorsports. With both cars producing north of 1000whp, it was the closest margin in ZDayZ Top Dawg history, but as we say each year, there are can only be ONE Top Dawg...and this year we congratulate Andrew Sweet for being named this year’s TOP DAWG. We hope to see you all next year!
-- Reid Traylor - Marketing Associate, Forged Performance

The ZDayZ ‘Partners’ Arrive:
First – please find your way to the comprehensive list of the ZDayZ Partners on the ZDayZ Event Partners page.   Please know that the ZDayZ Partners do not ‘sponsor’ ZDayZ, but that they are Partners with the ZDayZ Organizers in producing this near legendary event.   Many of the great stories & good times of the past 11 years are rooted in our Partners efforts & antics!   If you wish to support ZDayZ, each of the ZDayZ Partners should be the place you start for your Nissan Performance Platform needs.

In the months/weeks/days running up to ZDayZ, our hearts and minds leave for Fontana Village long before we do.   This applies in total to the ZDayZ Staff and for sure nearly all of our fellow attendees.   However, for our ZDayZ Partners, the approach of ZDayZ adds the edge of really having your ‘stuff’ together when that middle Thursday in May rolls around.   The Partners attend as part of the ZDayZ community – they are as much us, as we are them - and they drag a great deal more baggage to FVR than what fits in Z, G or a GT-R.   That baggage may be stuff for us to admire or go home with, or an idea and/or activity to entertain us.   The ZDayZ Partners are all ‘Voluntolds’ in a somewhat different degree (and they get screwed as to the shirt).

ZDayZ Thursday morning marks the arrival and set up of the ZDayZ Partners with on-site presence.   There is always a level of anticipatory excitement with this as we get to see what our friends have brought for our titillation.   ZDayZ saw that display step up again, running the gambit from jaw dropping eye candy, to massive stopping power, through awesome track & street machines, and many solutions for spinal cord disintegrating power & performance!

Nissan’s participation this year was as impressive as last year's JUKE-R; but way more global.   Nissan’s 18 wheel car hauler snaked its way into FVR and deposited a gorgeous 2015 370Z NISMO, and then proceeded amaze us all with the GLOBAL reveal of it.   It was so global that ZDayZ was on yahoo.com, autoweek.com, topgear.com, jalopnik.com, autoblog.com to name a few.

ZDayZ BEER-lympics

by and
ROFL, what the Bama guys and gals pulled off for an inaugural event was epic, not only was it entertaining to participate, it was also inappropriate enough to watch.
Winners
1st Place: Team Chug-a-Lug
2nd Place: Team Juice
Lite Weights: Team Gaines

Friday Recap

Second annual 5/10k run/walk

What can I say, another excellent turnout for the America's Fund 5/10k.   Dave Winter of DXD Racing Clutches was waiting on me this year with , a free DXD Racing Clutch kit as the prize.   And you, the 72 runners, limpers, walkers and volunteers, that choose to get up and endure the cold and undoubted the hardest 5/10k out there; thank you.   There were plenty of antics, but as usual it was hard to beat Trevor and his shenanigans for the costume.   We had raised ~$2000 directly from the race.   $129 was raised from the poker run where extra cards were drawn.   We passed the hat on Saturday for America's Fund and you donated an additional $1362, THank you for that.   And because of all that, we are going to send a check $4,000 for America’s Fund.

America’s Fund
America's Fund is a program created to direct urgently needed resources and financial support to injured and critically ill members of the U.S. Armed Forces and their families.   Since its inception in 2004, the Semper Fi Fund has provided more than $91 million in support.   As injured heroes from different branches of service are treated side by side at our nation's military hospitals, requests for assistance to all branches have continued to grow.   Today, their first priority is providing family support grants.   These enable families to spend time at loved ones' hospital bedsides, free from the financial pressures of travel, temporary lodging and lost wages.

Winners
Place	Male 10k	Female 10k	Male 5k	Female 5k
1st	Derek Brown 40:31	Michelle Bachand 66:56	Austin Smith 25:36	Stephanie Looney 25:46
2nd	Dominic Booth 40.42		Kevin Kribs 25:58	Leslie McBride 31:27
3rd	Al Abertson 47.17		Chris Story 28:13	Monica Oliverio 33:53

         

The massively popular Droptop CruiZe

was buzzinezz as usual.  The group stayed nice and tight as they crawled all over the place.  Kevin and Teresa Brown of Triangle Z Club of OWNED this event since its inception, and this year is no exception!

Droptop cruize photos

ZDayZ Putt Putt Tournament

Well we triedhttp://zdayz.com.   Not sure if it was the weather or people would rather just hang our or drive, but we had 4 players for this activity.   Probably not scheduling this activity for next yearhttp://zdayz.com.  
Winners
1st Place: Gregg Westall
2nd Place: Mary Story
3rd Place: Chris Story

ZDayZ Poker Run

Was the single largest improved activity from 2013 to 2014.   Last year after ZDayZ Middle Tennessee Z Club, MTZC, approached us; they stated they wanted to own the poker run.   True to form and exceeding all expectations MTZC blew our socks off.   Not only did they own it, they did most of the retooling, and all of the leg work.   My humble gratitude goes to MTZC, thank you.  

Winners
Best Hand Jerrit Tyler FOUR FOUR FOUR FOUR ???	2nd Best Hand Alex Ridenhour FOUR FOUR FOUR NINE NINE	Worst Hand Dylan Myers TWO THREE FOUR FIVE TEN	Most Memorable Stop TIDEWATER ZSNOW DOGS

Big thanks to:
                   

ZDayZ Disc Putt Putt Tournament

We had four players, I think we will can this activity.

Winners
1st Place - Gregg Westall
2nd Place - Mary Story
3rd Place - Chris Story

Partners, partners, partners

Please show some love and reach out to each and every one of our partners that helped us with ZDayZ.  In alphabetical order:

Partner Clubs

These are the people that put in the sweat equity to make ZDayZ run as smooth and efficiently as it does.  Without the support of our partner clubs, ZDayZ would be much more quaint affair and certainly not as fun.  In alphabetical order:

The Welcome Dinner

This was the first time for ZDayZ that we all could get together to talk and eat.   Per our tradition we brought all of our veterans on stage so that we could thank them for their service, and response was AMAZING!

Once again we kicked off the weekend with a massive round of door prizes provided by our partners, and this year we gave away over $15,000 of goodies!!!!   All we can say is WOW.   Please take this opportunity and visit our partner page, and please take the time to visit each of our partner’s sites/social media pages and thank them.   It would also be a great idea if you spent a little (or a bunch) of coin with them and drop our name with them as you do it.   Every year our partners take great care in making sure that the ZDayZ participants get some great swag, and 2014 is no exception as they exceeded all expectations.   We ask a lot of them and they never flinch or hesitate to step up to the plate for us and for YOU.  

Keeping the cheers going we also gave club plaques to the following clubs in appreciation of all the hard work they do to help ZDayZ, we simply couldn't do it without them.   This is just one more example of “For Enthusiasts, By Enthusiasts.”   Our club participation never fails to amaze us.   If you are interested in your club helping staff an event in 2015 please do not hesitate to ask Bryan Settle how your club can help.  

Finally, the past couple of years we have had a special, and highly coveted, award for the clubs - The Club Spirit of the Dragon Award, and this year’s earner was Z Atlanta.   Z Atlanta is one of the newer clubs at ZDayZ, Adam and crew have done an amazing job of instilling enthusiasm and a launching point for the Atlanta based Z enthusiasts.

The Z1 Deck party

was amazing.   Don James was spinning and everyone else was dancing!   Lots of great covers in a unique style.

Saturday Recap

ZDayZ/Nissan Car Show

Morning rain always puts a damper on any car show but like a wise man once said; if you ever want it to rain, simply wash your car)http://zdayz.com.   Seriously - large kudos go out to Z Atlanta Staff, and the voluntolds, who grew webbed feet and dealt with the rain, muck and weather to get the car show on track and running at full speed.   Out of ~160 cars registered for the car show, we still had over 100 cars parked for the show.   On the bright side, we finished judging in record time!

The Corn Hole Tournament

had extremely low turn out, again.  Consider this activity gone.

Winners
1st Place - Better Halves: Caroline Malloy / Kacie Minter
2nd Place - Better Late Than Pregnant: Chance Donahue / Alex

The ZDayZ Dam Foto was called off in lieu of serious weather.  

The ZDayZ Exhaust Competition

was sponsored by Dynosty and Fast Intentions and all of the sweat equity donated by the Great Lakes Z Club.   Fontana Village will forever be known as the Bermuda Triangle for all things electronic as far as Lee Helpingstine is concerned.   Last year Fontana Village ate his Mac Book, and this year the server just wouldn't run, so back to old school voting again.   This year I heard a few complaints that hybrid Zs are winning and there should be an asterisk associated to the exhaust soundoff, I'm listening, what say you?  (

Best Sounding Exhaust, winning a trophy and the distinction, as the best sounding exhaust at ZDayZ (which is a TOUGH sell!): Traland Tomlin

Worst Sounding Exhaust, winning a $700 gift certificate from Fast Intentions as well as a few grimaces and head shakes as he drove past the crowd: Steven Quimby

And the unofficial prize for the most pathetic attempt on a two stroke goes to Bryan Settle.

ZDayZ Awards Dinner

has a reputation of capping off a great weekend and starting an even better party night!   This year was no different.   Preceding the infamous After Party, the ZDayZ Awards Dinner on Saturday evening brought the participants together for one more dose of shenanigans for 2014.   This year there were more door prizes, more inside jokes, and a long line of raffle prizes that kept everyone smiling from ear to ear.  

Mad Mike, took the microphone and almost didn't give it back.   Mike then introduced Tetsu-sama from Japan, and we gave Tetsu a ZDayZ flag singed by all of you, for him to hang in his awesome garage Japan.



Of course you can’t have an awards dinner without having awards!   We handed out lots of accolades to the Corn Hole winners, the winner (and loser) of the exhaust contest, and last but not least the Car Show winners!   Ever been to car show awards and always wondered which cars won?   We got you covered!   See below for pictures and names of all the car show winners.

Car Show Winners
Partner Class 1st Place Ty Webb	Partner Class 2nd Place Lou Fusz	Extreme Class 1st Place Peter Gataric	Extreme Class 2nd Place Bryant Tonkin
Extreme Class 3rd Place Andrew Titus	S30 Mild 1st Place Pete Haussler	S30 Wild 1st Place Herman Carrick	S30 Wild 2nd Place Steve Waller
S30 Wild 3rd Place Mitchell Smith	S130 Stock 1st Place Asby Fulmer	S130 Wild 1st Place Steve Patterson	Z31 Stock 1st Place Asby Fulmer
Z31 Stock 2nd Place Asby Fulmer	Z31 Mild 1st Place Blake Russell	Z31 Mild 2nd Place Cameron Harris	Z32 Mild 1st Place David Dischler
Z32 Mild 2nd Place Dawn Thomas	Z32 Mild 3rd Place Robert Leasure	Z32 Wild 1st Place Sammy Byars	Z32 Wild 2nd Place Mike Twitty Sr.
Z32 Wild 3rd Place Tim Peters	Z33 Stock 1st Place KellieStevens	Z33 Mild 1st Place Michael Pail	Z33 Mild 2nd Place Andy Barclay
Z33 Mild 3rd Place Maggie Wilson	Z33 Wild 1st Place Ray Bearden	Z33 Wild 2nd Place John Price	Z33 Wild 3rd Place Josh Mecimore
Z34 Stock 1st Place Paul Swanson	Z34 Stock 2nd Place Joshua Graver	Z34 Mild 1st Place Petr Pakosta	Z34 Mild 2nd Place Jim Lyme
Z34 Mild 3rd Place Allison Hernandez	Z34 Wild 1st Place Asby Fulmer	Z34 Wild 2nd Place Jonathan Malloy	G35 Mild 1st Place David Deford
G35 Mild 2nd Place Aaron Kollmeyer	G35 Wild 1st Place Johnny Allgood	G35 Wild 2nd Place Sandy Myers - Berry	G37 Mild 1st Place Nicole Weld
G37 Mild 2nd Place Lee Vermont	G37 Mild 3rd Place Michael Nicastro	G37 Wild 1st Place Nick Gomez	Skyline Mild 1st Place Edwin Giang
GT-R Wild 1st Place Tyler Heinzelmann	Other Nissan 1st Place Erin McGehee	Diamond in the Rough Anthony Garcia	Best I.C.E. Brandon Ennett
Best Roadster Chad Williams	Best Track Car Chris Hendrickson	Best Engine Bay Brian Taylor	Best Travelin Tape Aaron Yovan
	http://zdayz.com.And You Spent too Much Brian Kleeman #becauseracecar	Best in Show Asby Fulmer

To state that we enjoy folks from all walks of life would be redundant, but what is amazing are some of the great lengths our participants will go to join us!  Such as:

• Tetsuhiro Takakamo flew from Japan to be at ZDayZ, 7,803 miles.  So Tetsu-sama takes home the longest distance traveled award!
• Melissa Miller DROVE from San Diego California, 2,275 miles, and she takes home the longest distance driven award.  (You think she drifted the whole way?)
• We were amazed and humbled to draw people from 3 countries: USA, Canada, and Japan as well as from 33 of the 50 states, plus DC!

Once again, thanks to our partners, we had some absolutely awesome stuff to give away, and unfortunately we only have room to list the AWESOMEST stuff here:

Raffle Prizes
Vendor	Prize	Vendor	Prize
AMS	Z33/G35 DE SS Equal Length Headers	AMS	Z33/G35 Adjustable Camber arms
CIN Motorsports	Stage 1 6 Pot Big Brake Kit	Dynosty	ARP L19 Head Studs for VQ35DE
DXD Racing Clutches	DXD clutch and flywheel kit	Forged Performance	Cobb Access Port for R35
Forged Performance	Competition Clutch Kit	Inappropriate Motorsports	Ultimate Tailgate Package
Mad Hatter Concepts	Apple Pie Moonshine	Mad Hatter Concepts	Apple Pie Moonshine and Hat
Jim Wolf Technologies	Dual Pop-Charger 09+ w/Heat Shields	Motordyne Engineering	HR Intake Plenum
Motordyne Engineering	ART Pipes	Motordyne Engineering	Sway Bars
SOHO Motorsports	SOHO Single Exit Catback Exhaust	The Powder Coater	$400 Gift Certificate
Tidewater Z Service	S30 Toyota 4 Runner Big Brake Upgrade	Z1 Motorsports	Z Nationals package, includes track day at AMP
Z1 Motorsports	2 piece Akebono or Brembo Front Rotors	Z1 Motorsports	HJC Racing Helmet
Zpowersteering.com	S30 complete conversion kit

ZDayZ Beer Pong was won by the OGC, Ohio G Club.

Teh After Party

was uncorked as usual.  I only remember parts of it, so someone else needs to write the recap of the after party.

And if you read all the way down to this line of fine print, congratulations – you’ve reached the end of the internet!  

Happy New Year

Welcome to 2014!

ZDayZ 2014 will take place on May 15-19th, 2014 at Fontana Village Resort in NC. Fontana Village Resort is full, check out the Lodging page to see the overflow locations.

We are doing a few new things this year as well as repeating some of our greatest hits. That said the events and activities calendar is being populated, we encourage our partners to help us develop the ecology of the event. We should have all of the details sorted out by the end of January, but this much is confirmed:

• Car show – judged format
• 5/10K race
• Poker run
• Putt putt tournament
• Beer pong tournament
• Exhaust soundoff competition
• Many mountain road cruizes
• And lots and lots of nightlife

Each year more and more people are coming earlier and earlier, we decided to put together a white water rafting trip for those that would like to go. The rafting trip will be late Wednesday morning for those interested, please check the box on the registration page. This will give us an idea of how many people are interested. The group discounted rate comes to just under $45, and that will be paid directly to Natahala Outdoor Center. This is an approximately 3 hour trip, with 1 hour commuting and a 2 hour float. Details for Water Water Rafting

The Top Dawg Challenge. You think you have what it takes to run with the Big Dawgs, or are you too scared and want to stay on the porch? Every year the Top Dawg Challenge (sometimes referred to as the Airstrip Event,) sponsored by Forged Performance, is a chance to see some extremely powerful cars battle it out on an airstrip. Registration for this event is at Forged Performance's Webstore. The registration has been limited to 40 participant this year. Spectators are of welcome at no charge.

Based upon the HUGE success of the 5/10k race last year we are going to do it again. Last year we had almost 100 participants which blew us away, we totally didn’t expect that. We were able to donate $3,000 to America’s Fund, and we would love to double that in 2014. America's Fund 5/10k Race Details

We are retiring the Disc Golf tournament this year, and replacing it with a Putt Putt Tournament.

Beer Pong Tournament registration is an option this year during your ZDayZ registration, in the past this has been a separate registration with another individual, we are just slip streaming into ZDayZ registration. Beer Pong Tournament Details

And the last BIG change for 2014 is a winter cruise. That’s right a big boat in the Bahamas, in November. This idea was brought up by one of our friends and we liked it. The dates are 11/7 to 11/10/2014 and we will be departing from Port Canaveral, FL. Pricing starts at $622 per person to be paid t the travel agency, not ZDayZ. Selecting the Bahamas’ cruise in ZDayZ registration only commits you to get more information, that DOES NOT commit you to the cruise. Separate reservation and arrangements will have to be made via the travel agency. Bahamas Trip Details

ZDayZ is a rain or shine event

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