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hey stanceworks! i'm PJ Prendergast, i'm 18 and i'm a freshman at the university of new haven. i grew up as a nascar and classic car kid via my dad. he's been into cars for 30 + years now, and so am i. when i was 15 my dad told me to start looking for a project car, and at the time my dream car was an STI, but even wrecked they were around $10k (wasn't gonna happen). so my dad introduced me to the 3000gt vr4, it was awd and turbo'd like the sti, but a v6 TT awd plus more sex appeal and i fell in love. i began researching and that's when i really got into jap cars, drifting (which i plan on doing next summer: currently looking for either an fc rx7 or an mkiii supra). last fall i also bought an '88 325 e30 for $260. i was going to drift that but its in such good condition after putting under $1k into it that i'm keeping it as a clean DD. but back to the 3kgt:
i came home to a surprise shipped from california: a 1993 vr4 that my dad bought me on ebay through a lien sale. we were originally going to just put some new wheels and tires on it and paint it up, but as we got deeper into the car, it really needed almost everything; almost blown motor/tranny, and mis matched wheels weren't helping either. so we pulled the motor/tranny, entire rear end, and had the car basically to a shell and the front seats. we threw it together to have the motor melt down due to sand in a part of the valve cover we didn't fully clean i suppose (sooooo stupid).
well we rebuilt it again, and now we have a clean vr4. as of now it has an hks exhaust (soon to be replaced by a custom single shot), 3sx down pipes, hks bov, greddy turbo timer and boost controller (and some replica/stock SL wheels... my dad really wanted the car on the ground at the time, and he paid for them so i can't complain too much haha) and some other little things here and there. i know, at the moment it's only on megan 2.5'' lowering springs and new stock struts, but over this coming winter i'm going to build some coilovers for it with help from ollie. i met through shift 518 and in person with his e36 at a drift event at lebanon valley. fell in love with the stance of his car, and now i want to stance out my vr4. i figure it'll be something different than what other people are doing. my current goal/dream is to make it worthy of a feature on here or anywhere for that matter. i need more money and time, but someday i think i can get it on here
here's where she's at now
(sorry if the pics get huge. i hope the forum can resize them if they do)
got the motor out!
me porting and polishing the heads
after a bagillion hours of body work
me doing some painting (my dad most of the hard stuff, since this was my first official paint job)
yayyy red!
my favorite teaser pic
my dad! what a guy
polishing the intake took agessss
my radio! (spent most of the money i made working at a toyota dealership for the summer)
wayyy after. good pic of the engine bay all together
4x4 status before springs
more 4x4 status
more in the next post
i came home to a surprise shipped from california: a 1993 vr4 that my dad bought me on ebay through a lien sale. we were originally going to just put some new wheels and tires on it and paint it up, but as we got deeper into the car, it really needed almost everything; almost blown motor/tranny, and mis matched wheels weren't helping either. so we pulled the motor/tranny, entire rear end, and had the car basically to a shell and the front seats. we threw it together to have the motor melt down due to sand in a part of the valve cover we didn't fully clean i suppose (sooooo stupid).
well we rebuilt it again, and now we have a clean vr4. as of now it has an hks exhaust (soon to be replaced by a custom single shot), 3sx down pipes, hks bov, greddy turbo timer and boost controller (and some replica/stock SL wheels... my dad really wanted the car on the ground at the time, and he paid for them so i can't complain too much haha) and some other little things here and there. i know, at the moment it's only on megan 2.5'' lowering springs and new stock struts, but over this coming winter i'm going to build some coilovers for it with help from ollie. i met through shift 518 and in person with his e36 at a drift event at lebanon valley. fell in love with the stance of his car, and now i want to stance out my vr4. i figure it'll be something different than what other people are doing. my current goal/dream is to make it worthy of a feature on here or anywhere for that matter. i need more money and time, but someday i think i can get it on here
here's where she's at now(sorry if the pics get huge. i hope the forum can resize them if they do)
got the motor out!
me porting and polishing the heads
after a bagillion hours of body work
me doing some painting (my dad most of the hard stuff, since this was my first official paint job)
yayyy red!
my favorite teaser pic
my dad! what a guy
polishing the intake took agessss
my radio! (spent most of the money i made working at a toyota dealership for the summer)
wayyy after. good pic of the engine bay all together
4x4 status before springs
more 4x4 status
more in the next post
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