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12-09-12, 22:20
PJ Prendergast

new from new york.. lol wut

whaddup! i'm PJ Prendergast, i'm 19 years old and i'm from Albany, New York, just a few hours north of NYC. so i'll explain why i'm here; basically, i have a ton of family in terranure (spelling?) in dublin, and some friends in cellebridge i've made in all my visits over there. the reason i'm on here is because i may be studying abroad over in dublin somewhere for my spring semester, and if i'm gonna be away from my s13 for about 5 months i'm gonna need a car fix!

i got my first car when i was 15, a 1993 mitsubishi GTO TT (known as a 3000gt vr4 here). my dad and i spent about 2 and a half years restoring it from the ground up. stripped it all the way down leaving just the front seats and dash pad in the shell and rebuilt nearly everything. i didn't know much about jap cars, and this was a huge introduction to the whole scene for me. i started attending local drifting events (watching from the side lines wishing i was out there). well finally this year, at age 19 i got my first 240: a 1991 hatch with an sr20. big list of parts came on it. i got it from some dude down in queens who had the car built with the intentions of bringing it to road course events but just never had the time for the car. so i got a fully built 240 for a steal, and now my goal is to drift it as much and as hard as i can until i can get myself an r32 GTS-T. (as some of you may know, most skylines are illegal here unless it's the r33 made in 1996 between certain months. this is so because it was the only one crash tested and other lame stuff like that). BUT i'm waiting until the 1989 r32 hits 25 years old which is perfectly legal for importation. anyways here's the cars and some pics and whatnot

http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6037/6...8d6a9f52_z.jpg
001 by P.J. Prendergast, on Flickr

http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l6...0293/025-1.jpg

i skipped a ton of pics haha

http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6232/6...c70983a1_z.jpg
DSC_3269 by P.J. Prendergast, on Flickr

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7206/6...89fe4431_z.jpg
DSC_5773 by P.J. Prendergast, on Flickr

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7038/6...9a3428dc_z.jpg
DSC_5776 by P.J. Prendergast, on Flickr

and here's the 240

current mod list

Powertrain:
S13 SR20DET Blacktop
Tomei Pon Cams
Greddy Airinx Intake
Greddy Oil Pan
Greddy LS FMIC
Greddy Oil catch can
GT Spec Exhaust manifold
GT Spec O2 Housing
3inch Downpipe
Straight pipe (Broken Sard exhaust torque converter control valve)
Circuit Sports 3" Dual Tip Exhaust
Hallman Manual boost controller (you can order an in-cabin extension)
Nismo motor mounts and transmission mount
ACT 6 Puck clutch
Fidanza Flywheel
Mishimoto aluminum radiator
Nismo thermostat
Flex-A-Lite Dual fans
DIF Fan controller
Walbro Fuel Pump

Suspension:
BC Racing coilovers (I don't have the spanner wrenches)
Suspension Techniques F&R Sway Bars
SPC Adjustable Rear Camber Arm, Rear Toe arm, and Link
Nagisa Fender Brace
GT Spec FSB, RSB, Trunk Bar, C-pillar bar, Lower tie Bar
OEM S14 5 Lug conversion (hubs)
Moog S14 Front lower ball joint
Energy Suspension rack and pinion and front lower control arm bushing
Peak Performance rear subframe bushing collars
Z32 Front and Rear brakes (Front: Hawk HP Plus, Brembo Slotted Rotors)
Z32 Conversion Stainless brake lines
OEM S14 wheels/Enkie RP01-no tires
J30 VLSD/Axles
Tein Tie rods (inner and outer)

Interior:
AEM UEGO Wideband Gauge and O2 sensor
STRI Boost Gauge
S14 Front seats
Personal Steering wheel

Exterior:
Xenon Front Lip
HID Conversion (with OE JDM Housings)

i'm gonna leave the motor the way it is now, it pulls pretty hard and runs so nice, i'm not gonna bother with it. here's what i have to start with, i'm hoping to get it out at next months LVD event and make an ass out of myself haha

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7232/7...1180e07a_z.jpg
Untitled by P.J. Prendergast, on Flickr

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5347/7...816fbc18_z.jpg
Untitled by P.J. Prendergast, on Flickr

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5331/7...4b5eb453_z.jpg
Untitled by P.J. Prendergast, on Flickr

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8154/7...617d26f2_z.jpg
Untitled by P.J. Prendergast, on Flickr

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8019/7...1c7eb635_z.jpg
DSC_5967 by P.J. Prendergast, on Flickr

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8002/7...c87b0eba_z.jpg
DSC_5964 by P.J. Prendergast, on Flickr

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8446/7...3d2051f0_z.jpg
DSC_5982 by P.J. Prendergast, on Flickr

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7118/7...2e67988a_z.jpg
DSC_5983 by P.J. Prendergast, on Flickr

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8182/7...f937d918_z.jpg
Untitled by P.J. Prendergast, on Flickr

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8321/7...daf7f3e2_z.jpg
Untitled by P.J. Prendergast, on Flickr

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8304/7...12ea5822_z.jpg
Untitled by P.J. Prendergast, on Flickr
~ PJ
12-09-12, 22:29
PJ Prendergast

one more pic i like. i also appologize for the fu*king ginormous pics, photbucket has the downsss

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8178/7...a230b856_z.jpg
Untitled by P.J. Prendergast, on Flickr

and one from my very first event this year. i've only been to one event and this was my first time legit drifting, no ebrake cuz i snapped the cable a while ago haha i didn't wanna drop money on the 2+2 cable

First Drift Event - YouTube
12-09-12, 22:32
PeterT

hey welcome dude! 240 looks fucking awesome on enkeis, love those wheels!

small world! terenure, 15 minutes away.
12-09-12, 22:34
KerryKid1JZ

Welcome aboard dude you will find most events etc on this site anyway! The 240 looks tasty the exhaust looks well on it aswell as them rpf1's.
Enjoy your stay lol
12-09-12, 22:34
PJ Prendergast

Quote:

Originally Posted by PeterT

hey welcome dude! 240 looks fucking awesome on enkeis, love those wheels!

small world! terenure, 15 minutes away.

silly me traded them for the battles... -__- lol i'm getting spacers for up front soon and i plan on going lower. my next event is the 28th this month, im so pumped! and i just did a google search of drifting in ireland haha
12-09-12, 22:34
nikkisixx69

welcome along man! love the enkies on your 240sx :cool:
12-09-12, 22:37
JohnC

Welcome buck!

I was born in NY too. Lived in Rye, westchester for 2 years and then moved home to Dublin.

I'm live like 10 mins from celbridge too

Do you know which college you'll be in for the semester?
12-09-12, 22:39
Chuck_g

Welcome man......nice to see some interest in the site from other countries :) the 240 is sex on the black rims :)
12-09-12, 22:41
marksull

welcome along bud, cool looking 240, wheels look sweet under it! enjoy!!
12-09-12, 22:44
Hakosuka

Welcome along dude. I remember seeing your GTO on Stanceworks a long time ago.

Sweet 240! Hope Dublin goes well for you!
13-09-12, 00:41
PJ Prendergast

Quote:

Originally Posted by JohnC

Welcome buck!

I was born in NY too. Lived in Rye, westchester for 2 years and then moved home to Dublin.

I'm live like 10 mins from celbridge too

Do you know which college you'll be in for the semester?

ah that's cool! i found a really cool psychology program at trinity but idk if i'll get in. my friends dad is a professor at the college in maynooth so maybe i'll end up there, idk yet still looking at programs. (also, i went to mantra this summer when i was there haha nice club!) it's also a really tough decision for me to make to, i literally won't be able to go home and see my family, friends or cars for like 5 months. which is why i made an account on here so i could try to know some people who could take me for rides or bring me to events or something :D

do you know the guy that owns this? he's in cellebridge
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7268/7...755fced7_z.jpg
Untitled by P.J. Prendergast, on Flickr

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chuck_g

Welcome man......nice to see some interest in the site from other countries :) the 240 is sex on the black rims :)

thanks dude! if i make it over i can't live outside the car scene for 5 months, i wouldn't make it haha and yeah what happened was i had those wheels on my vr4 but they poked alot, so i threw em on the 240 and ended up trading them for the rpf1's which i wish i kept. but i've always loved the battles, so i'll get spacers for up front and it'll look dope when it's slammed all the way.

Quote:

Originally Posted by marksull

welcome along bud, cool looking 240, wheels look sweet under it! enjoy!!

thanks man!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hakosuka

Welcome along dude. I remember seeing your GTO on Stanceworks a long time ago.

Sweet 240! Hope Dublin goes well for you!

thanks! i hope i make it over, would be a killer experience. i love ireland. and yeah i ran in to so many fitment issues, and at the time i would have needed serious work to fir the 18x12's out back, plus my rear control arms were seriously close to hitting the body and i definitely wasn't about to chop it up. my dream is to make a 3/s drift car someday. in fact, there's a thread on 3si.org that some guy is making an rwd setup for these cars. it won't be done for a while but when it is i'm making a vr4/gto tt drift slut :D
13-09-12, 00:50
PJ Prendergast

Quote:

Originally Posted by PeterT

hey welcome dude! 240 looks fucking awesome on enkeis, love those wheels!

small world! terenure, 15 minutes away.

oh and if you know anyone with the last name of caslin i'm most likely related to them haha i have a ton of cousins and some great aunt's/uncle's by that last name
13-09-12, 01:17
Darenm

welcome dude
2 fine cars u have there the 240 is just the sex on the rpf1s u should be ashamed of yourself for swaping them :p:p:p

still awesome none the less

know a girl thats just after moving from ny to dublin for collage actually her father owns Hevada Smiths if u know them

any way welcome along im sure you will help us along as much as we will help u along enjoy ur stay :):):):)
13-09-12, 02:15
MissSuz

Welcome along dude :)

We all love Mantra!

:)

That's all the input I have really!!
13-09-12, 07:12
lady89

welcome along! u wont be dissapointed in ireland with drifting...cars look awesome!
13-09-12, 08:30
way2fastforu

welcome dude...nice 240..rpf1's ftw!!
13-09-12, 11:53
pole drift

Welcome dude, I live in Celbridge havnt seen that golf tho. Your surname sounds familiar.
13-09-12, 11:55
PeterT

That golf, has it got a VR6 engine in it???? If so, saw it yesterday, hes living with a friend of mine haha
13-09-12, 17:02
PJ Prendergast

thanks everyone! and yeah mantra was pretty sweet haha irish girls are much easier to work with :p

Quote:

Originally Posted by pole drift

Welcome dude, I live in Celbridge havnt seen that golf tho. Your surname sounds familiar.

what kind of car do you drive? i was in celbridge for a week in july this summer. saw a bunch of ae86's and a few r33's.

and it's not definite that i'll be over for the entire spring semester. it's hard trying to find a good psychology program that'll accept me. i wanna study abroad before i get old and wanna finish out my college years with a job and apartment and whatnot. ideally if i could, i'd do anything to borrow a shell from someone and put money into it so i could say i had a drift car and participated in events while i was over. now that'd be dope! whoever lets me borrow a shell they can keep whatever parts i put into it :p
13-09-12, 17:10
PJ Prendergast

Quote:

Originally Posted by PeterT

That golf, has it got a VR6 engine in it???? If so, saw it yesterday, hes living with a friend of mine haha

damn haha i walked past it a bunch of times. props to him for driving that low, the roads there look brutal. how do you guys drive static with all them damn speed bumps? haha it's gotta be tough tryin to drive slammed around there
13-09-12, 17:12
Famous jh

Welcome along! Varestones, rpf1's and cst zeros... epic!
13-09-12, 17:22
S14a johno

welcome along buddy, ceilbridge only down the road,
and mondello too, so drifting only around the corner,

nice car kid :afro::afro:
13-09-12, 17:26
PJ Prendergast

Quote:

Originally Posted by Famous jh

Welcome along! Varestones, rpf1's and cst zeros... epic!

thanks man! i have 2 racing hart c5's that came on my 3000gt when i got it, i really wanna relip them to like 18x10's and run a staggered 17/18 set up, would look killer!

Quote:

Originally Posted by S14a johno

welcome along buddy, ceilbridge only down the road,
and mondello too, so drifting only around the corner,

nice car kid :afro::afro:

thanks brah. i'm so jealous you guys get every cool jdm car i'd kill to own. an s15, an r32 skyline, a laurel, screw you guys haha if i was made of money i'd buy and build a full car while i was over somehow. if anything i'd kill to pick up a very very cheap missle project just to give me something to do haha if i don't make it over for the semester i'll definitely come visit over the summer and hopefully time it so i can make it to an irish event :cool:
13-09-12, 17:33
S14a johno

Quote:

Originally Posted by PJ Prendergast

thanks brah. i'm so jealous you guys get every cool jdm car i'd kill to own. an s15, an r32 skyline, a laurel, screw you guys haha if i was made of money i'd buy and build a full car while i was over somehow. if anything i'd kill to pick up a very very cheap missle project just to give me something to do haha if i don't make it over for the semester i'll definitely come visit over the summer and hopefully time it so i can make it to an irish event :cool:

ahhh be away with ya, Have my car 4 years only now it going full track lol,
but not many Japs around do, lot tod with the market,
sure we have mondello drift days once or twice a month, then Irish drifting championship, Then drift fest, so load Drifting goes on, sure keep a eye out
for drift practice days, sure few lads wouldnt mind bring ya out for few laps,
ya make load friends on here, all drifting on here :afro:
13-09-12, 17:56
pole drift

Quote:

Originally Posted by PJ Prendergast

what kind of car do you drive? i was in celbridge for a week in july this summer. saw a bunch of ae86's and a few r33's.

lol drive a civic but I had a white R34 na during the summer and iv just bought PeterT's A31 Cefiro :cool:
13-09-12, 18:10
PJ Prendergast

Quote:

Originally Posted by pole drift

lol drive a civic but I had a white R34 na during the summer and iv just bought PeterT's A31 Cefiro :cool:

ughhh i saw that car in the f/s section, looks sick! my friend drives a pretty clean silver golf. you'll know it's him cause he's got a fro haha :afro:
13-09-12, 19:24
K series steve

welcome,nice cars man!!
19-09-12, 12:44
fitzer

Quote:

Originally Posted by PJ Prendergast

thanks everyone! and yeah mantra was pretty sweet haha irish girls are much easier to work with :p

what kind of car do you drive? i was in celbridge for a week in july this summer. saw a bunch of ae86's and a few r33's.

and it's not definite that i'll be over for the entire spring semester. it's hard trying to find a good psychology program that'll accept me. i wanna study abroad before i get old and wanna finish out my college years with a job and apartment and whatnot. ideally if i could, i'd do anything to borrow a shell from someone and put money into it so i could say i had a drift car and participated in events while i was over. now that'd be dope! whoever lets me borrow a shell they can keep whatever parts i put into it :p

iv a 200sx s13 shell here for ye dude ;) in kilcock(the town just down the road from maynooth) all the parts there to get it goin again and she'd be a minty slider for ye ;) rough but she'd do hah oh and welcome to DI
19-09-12, 13:58
Paddy drifter

welcome along lad nice cars ya got there love the 240 :)
19-09-12, 16:30
grange

welcomes, sweet 240 :)
19-09-12, 22:56
Funnyonion

Welcome along bro!! Love the 240
24-09-12, 21:31
PJ Prendergast

thanks guys!

Quote:

Originally Posted by fitzer

iv a 200sx s13 shell here for ye dude ;) in kilcock(the town just down the road from maynooth) all the parts there to get it goin again and she'd be a minty slider for ye ;) rough but she'd do hah oh and welcome to DI

i was actually in kilcock this summer haha my friends dad took me to the junkyard there, i was looking for 180sx stuff haha they didn't have any of course, i saw a few skylines in there though which was quite sad. and that'd be sick (if i get accepted into the program of course) to have a car to slide in over there! my application is due on october 15th and then i just gotta wait and see if i got accepted into maynooth or not. but if i do i'm so taking up your offer haha i'll make that bastard scrape all over the countryside :afro:
24-09-12, 21:46
B.Egan

best of luck with getting your course dude. I'm only a few mins from Maynooth too. If you come in spring there'll be plenty of drift related stuff to see and do. Always been a fan of MBs too.
24-09-12, 22:37
PJ Prendergast

Quote:

Originally Posted by B.Egan

best of luck with getting your course dude. I'm only a few mins from Maynooth too. If you come in spring there'll be plenty of drift related stuff to see and do. Always been a fan of MBs too.

thanks man! i really hope i get accepted into the program, would be such an unreal experience overall. maynooth is pretty expensive though apparently haha but are you related to a PJ Egan by any chance?
25-09-12, 12:01
B.Egan

Quote:

Originally Posted by PJ Prendergast

thanks man! i really hope i get accepted into the program, would be such an unreal experience overall. maynooth is pretty expensive though apparently haha but are you related to a PJ Egan by any chance?

Not that I know of anyway. Plenty of Egans about the country. I wouldn't be from Maynooth direction either, just live up here.
25-09-12, 12:17
hunty_sideways

Welcome along buddie nice 240 was actually in coxsackie Albany last thanksgiving most off My mums relatives live there beautiful spot
25-09-12, 16:11
Dylan

Welcome along man, pretty awesome 3000 you've built :)
Lovin' the RPF1s on the '13 ..
25-09-12, 16:39
PJ Prendergast

Quote:

Originally Posted by hunty_sideways

Welcome along buddie nice 240 was actually in coxsackie Albany last thanksgiving most off My mums relatives live there beautiful spot

thanks! and yeah my town is on the other side of the hudson river from coxsackie like 20 minutes away

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dylan

Welcome along man, pretty awesome 3000 you've built :)
Lovin' the RPF1s on the '13 ..

thanks! i wish i kept the rpf's honestly :mad: but i have bigger wheel plans in the future anyways, plus i can keep the battles as drift spares