or maybe they may, but like I'll get them into these things.
I'll put the cool factory parts back onto the car.
Like I'll make sure that it's as clean
as I can get the car, right?
And that means everything down
from if I have a switch that's cracked or scratched,
you know, in the years past, I probably would just like
spray it with a little black paint
or try to make it look better.
And now I'll literally go on eBay
or I'll search all over the world
looking for the stupid switch.
Right, right, right.
And it's nothing more than just the fact
that if it's going to be my car forever
and it's on my list of cars I'm going to keep forever,
then I want it to be as perfect as it can be
by my definition.
I have a funny example of, oh, sorry man.
I have a funny example of that.
So when I first got my Zee back in the day,
I took all the interior panels out
because I thought that made a car lighter.
Yeah, we all did the same thing.
We all did the same thing,
but now as I've progressed in age, 15 years later,
I'm putting all those same panels back into the car.
And now I'm having to buy them all again.
Because of course, back then,
I mean, who cares, they're plastic.
You just throw them in the trash.
Yeah, I had no idea that eventually,
15 years down the road, I'd want them back.
See, and I will say I wasn't as bad.
As much as there was some interior
that I took out of the car,
I was the guy that when I put my roll cage in,
wanted it to fit as tight as I could to everything.
And I carefully spent hours meticulously
cutting the interior plastics around the cage
so it would slip perfectly
so there wouldn't be any gaps in it and stuff like that.
Yeah, I mean, but now I'm at a stage
where if I wasn't racing the car,
I wouldn't put a cage in it.
Like honestly, I think first off,
the plan was when I had the cage in that 2G,
it was to race the car.
I did race the car, not a lot,
but inherently, I probably would have kept that car
and not put a cage in it knowing
that I was only gonna go to the track,
probably like four to six times
once I had that car up to that power level
where it needed the cage.
And the amount of times that I had to climb over
a door bar or the amount of times I smacked my head
on the halo probably wasn't worth it.
And I really would have enjoyed the AC more
if I didn't take it out of the car
the first minute I got the car.
Yeah, that's, I mean, Matt,
you ever, did you ever do the typical Honda
power steering removal, AC removal?
What is power steering?
Okay.
For all my stuff, like usually I start with a lower model
that the Civic had as a VX,
it didn't have anything to do with it.
So it was not a big deal.
It had, I think it had like a dealer
installed AC system.
And there was a lot of wood screws in there.
So when I put that car apart and I pulled the dash,
all that stuff came out because it was all garbage.
Yeah.
So that was all bad.
The Integra, the power steering pump was shot,
the rack was shot, pretty much everything was shot.
So yeah, and the ABS that parts terrible.
So that came out.
You can't really have AC with the turbo setup
that we have in there.
So it didn't make any sense.
I do also have an AP-1 and a S2000
that has been on the back burner for quite a while.
Do you?
Yeah, that one has power steering.
So you just have those three cars though, right?
Those are my three project cars, yeah.
Yeah, so the S2000 has like all three run,
the S2000 I just haven't really played with it
for a long time, but it still has the power steering
and still has a radio and all the interior
and all that stuff.
So yeah.
The one thing that I have never had in any of my cars
that always was one of those things
that I didn't care about.
And I almost looked at it as like a write-up passage
for not using it was the air conditioning.
Because it was like, well, why would you do that?
First, you're creating more heat, taking away power,
you know, like, that's not what you get.
Drawing the load on the engine.
All this stuff, yeah.
So when I bought my Z,
the only thing that didn't work on that car was the AC.
And it drove me nuts.
And I let it go for years.
Anyhow, circle back 14 years or 13 years later,
I made it a mission that I was going to fix the AC.
I did everything.
I changed the evaporator core.
I changed everything.
I couldn't find any dye.
I put dye in the system, nowhere.
Couldn't find any.
I looked all over, black light, the whole thing.
Can't find it.
Well, gotta be the compressor, right?
Gotta be the compressor.
I was getting numbers.
We were looking at everything.
I was looking at the compressor.
So I put a new compressor in, wasn't that?
Then I was like, you know what?
One of these lines, because of the twin turbos,
they sit right in places where I'm like,
it's gotta be the line.
I must be underneath all that heat wrap
that I had put on that line to keep it from basically
just melting away above the turbo.
I'm like, it's gotta be that.
So then I take the line off, not the line.
So then I'm like, well, the only thing left
that I can't see is in the dash.
So it's gotta be the evaporator core.
So I go through that whole process.
Change the evaporator core, not the evaporator core.
Turn the thing on.
I'm like, there's only, and I remember,
I remember sitting in front of my car
and saying, there's only one part left
and it's the easiest part.
And I don't know why, I don't know how it could be this.
Pressure.
Condenser.
Oh, I was thinking of the pressure.
I thought I was thinking of the overpressure sensor.
Because, all right, so I don't wanna,
those cars are kind of a pain in the ass
to bleed.
Not a huge thing.
Like I vacuum fill them and usually that's,
that really takes care of it.
But so I decide, I'll go through the front,
not through the back.
I'm gonna leave the coolant stuff intact.
So I pull off the bumper,
unbolt the rads,
underbolt the front plastic rad core,
get the intercooler out of the way, the whole thing.
I have pictures on my Instagram.
Max can probably end up, he'll find a picture.
And I take the, as soon as I do that,
and I end up unbolting the condenser,
right in the middle of it, on the back,
is this area where one screw somehow rub through
one of the fins.
Oh my gosh, right through the arm.
But even when I look at it from really close up,
you can only see a hint of green.
And I'm like, you son of a, you know?
I replaced everything in the AC system, everything.
I mean, every single thing.
I changed, just so you know,
I put three dryers into the car,
because every time I did it, I was like,
I was like, oh, well, I gotta change the dryer.
It's both the elements, gotta change the dryer.
Anyhow, so I take this condenser off,
put new condenser in.
Anyhow, I've had the AC ever since.
But it's like, the point is the VR4 air conditioning.
Like, now I'm just like, you know what?
Like it's kind of cool to have air conditioning,
because like, when I'm a big guy roasting in the car,
it gets out of the head.
I get it for a daily, but I don't need it
for the sports car.
I really don't.
Which is what I said.
And I think in a few years,
you may have a different feeling on that.
I just, I also need it to be running and driving
for that to actually be a concern.
So let me get there first.
That's fair.
You know, it's not, the AC is more like,
the only thing that bothers me in the AC,
the Z gets very hot, right?
Now I have, I have aluminum radiators.
I have extra, you know, I have spa fans in there.
And like I have, like we've done, you know,
we've done all the stuff to make it cooler.
And it does a good job.
But like on a hot day, a really hot day
with the AC going and stuff, that baby is humming.
BQs are on hot anyway.
They're just inherently hot engines.
Like they put off a lot of heat,
a lot of radiant heat, even the trans tunnels.
Like, well, everything is aluminum.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, even from the, I mean,
from like just the placement of like the exhaust runners
and everything on the car.
Everything gets hot.
And I'm sure the turbos don't help extra.
The extra, you know, I mean,
the thing's got like a four inch thick
inch cooler in the front of it.
You know what I mean?
Like you're not really helping air flow.
There's no air flow.
Yeah, that's true.
The car doesn't have any air flow, nothing.
Anyhow.
I don't know.
As far as like, as far as like current times,
like for me for the last couple of years,
like last two years,
other than just basic maintenance,
bolt checks and driving the cars.
When I have time, I haven't really been building.
I haven't really been like,
like doing anything really hands on with it.
I started to let this dive into adult competitive athletics
and kind of needed some more time for that than cars.
Have you ever taken a break
and not done anything for like a year, six months,
where you just weren't wrenching,
you weren't doing anything with it?
I don't think that I stand a chance
in competitive athletics.
So I'd say in the car thing.
Right, right.
My example, my example.
I understand.
No, you know,
I think there've been periods like ebbs and flows
where maybe, you know,
I wasn't doing stuff on the car
because I was busy with life or, you know, whatever.
But I kind of like that idea.
I think that's why I like having a lot of project cars.
Yeah.
Because, you know, I really liked,
like part of my passion is really like,
I like to fabricate.
I like to weld.
I like to build.
Like I like to have all the tools
and all the equipment and, you know,
give me a mill, give me all that stuff.
I wanna.
You're a maker.
What's that?
You're a maker.
You like to produce things.
You like to make something.
I do.
And so, like the problem is you get done with a car,
you get a car.
Like I got my Z to a certain place.
There's not much left.
To do.
Right, right.
That I can do at this stage.
If I decided like, hey, like, you know what,
let me see if I could do this
and make a thousand horsepower.
Like we'd be on a whole other level
but you'd be ditching everything all over again.
You know what I mean?
Like it's, you'd be stripping the car down
and go all the way back to a different place.
And I don't want that.
Like I like the car that the car,
I like that the car makes,
you know, 460, 480 horsepower,
like on pump gas and just is completely drivable.
Like I like that.
And it's reliable in the sense of
it's not at such a high power level
that things are breaking all the time.
Yeah, and I also don't really drive the car enough
to break them, so.
True, but even if you were driving it at that power level,
that's not enough to really start to hurt those cars.
Like you start to really beat on them
and start to really push it.
That's when you start to see failures.
But the little VQ35s can take a pretty good pounding
especially at that power level.
Yeah, I think the only weak part
becomes really the valve train at that point.
Like you can't, you don't want to like
rev the thing out a whole bunch.
Yeah, I mean it puts 7,200,
you're still fine on those engines.
I don't know, I've kind of always felt like
with the turbos and stuff I keep it a little lower.
But you know.
I'm reckless.
We know this is why, that's why the RV is broken.
That's why I'm always doing project cars.
Cause I will rev them out and break something
and then it's very much that build it, break it,
rebuild it type mentality with me.
I enjoyed the actual process of the build too much.
I mean I guess that's why for years
I worked in the shops and I did enjoy that.
But like it was the same thing.
Like there was never a time where the car wasn't far
from my mind or one of the cars that I was,
my daily wasn't far from my mind of doing something on.
Like there was never a moment where it was like,
oh, let me take a break from cars.
Like it's from sun up to sundown, it's pretty much.
Yeah, I think I was the same,
I was definitely the same way.
And it was like every weekend, every Saturday and Sunday
if we weren't doing something family related
I was in the garage doing something.
That's all I wanted to do.
And I think it wasn't that it got overwhelming
or anything or that I got tired of it.
It's just that I've, you know,
I found something else I wanted to try for a little bit.
And I think the few weeks turned into a few months
turned into now a couple of years,
but, you know, I still sort of kept my finger
on the pulse of what's going on
and what people are doing with car stuff.
And so I think now looking at it, like big picture
I'm a little bit more inclined
to get back out there again and start doing stuff.
Not super pumped at spending money,
but just the fact that like getting back out there
and starting to rent again would be a lot of fun.
I think having some time off maybe miss it a bit,
which is probably good.
But at the same time, you gotta be careful
I don't wanna drop a bunch of money on stuff
I really don't need.
Well, let me ask you a question.
So would you, you know, so from the Civic
to the, you know, to the Integra,
like is there anything there that you wanna do?
Like I said, if I was gonna do anything with the Civic
it would be the supercharger
because I've never done one before.
I would like that experience of installing it,
finding it out, installing it,
and then, you know, tuning it and seeing what it feels like.
Is it a B or a K? Integra?
It's a K.
It's a fully built K24.
Yeah, I mean, it's built to handle boost.
So I could put a considerable amount of boost on it.
The Integra, I think I'm pretty good.
I don't think I wanna do anything else with that car.
Maybe the power steering thing
that like what Nick was mentioning,
that would be kinda cool.
I've never done it before, so that would be interesting.
The S2000, I've never finished it before, so.
What would you, so what's,
so if you, let's say money's not an object, right?
What's the, what's the,
what would be the plan for the, you know, S2000?
Just to finish it up, like right now
I have some wiring issues, the headlights are not working
and I don't know why.
So I've been trying to figure it out,
or I was trying to figure it out before I took this
brake and I was getting a little bit frustrated.
I did reach out to a friend that has a buddy
that kinda specializes in S2000s.
I may actually lean on him to give me a hand with it,
which is weird, because I don't really do that anymore.
I do it all myself, but it's a bit of a headache,
hate wiring, so hopefully you can, you know,
maybe lend me a hand and get that rectified.
Other than that though, it's ready to go.
It's an F20 car, so?
Sort of, it's a K24 crank and then custom rods.
So it's a 2.4 liter.
Wow.
And then it's got a CNC head,
individual throttle bodies, custom plenum.
The radiators laid down on a flat.
Oh, cool.
So, yeah.
When you started talking about it,
I definitely thought it was a very mildly done S2000
from the way you made it sound,
and then all of a sudden he's like,
oh yeah, but it's got all this other stuff in it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, so.
So let me ask you a question.
So with the S2000, what, and I don't know,
I'm not enough of a Honda guy.
Obviously I know, you know, different things
about Ks and put the K20 head on the,
but like, but why go that way
rather than what I think some people do swap-wise,
I don't know if it's a time or period thing,
but a lot of them are doing the, you know,
K24 bottom ends with, you know,
everybody promotes the K20 head
as being the libel, diol, head flowing master.
So for my Civic, that's what I have,
I have a K24 block, K20 head.
Right.
So you kind of get the best of both worlds,
you get the bigger block
and you get the higher flowing head.
Yeah.
So they work well together.
For the S2000, it was just,
it's still the F-Series engine,
but then the crank is from a K
and so you got to do a little bit of
and then we can work.
But why go that route?
What was the, what was the-
I think because, well, the original engine in that car
is, I know everyone loves it
and they rave about how great it is,
but the mid-range is so terrible on that car.
It wasn't that enjoyable to me.
And that puts the mid-range right back.
You just picked up all of this placement.
Yeah.
From a two liter to a 2.4 liter.
So yeah, that plus IPVs.
So.
Yeah, something a little bit different too.
So it's an all motor car?
Yes.
What compression?
Total to one.
Okay.
So, what do you think?
You think that car is gonna be like a 240, 250 horsepower?
Yeah, maybe like 250, something like that.
Which should probably be pretty good for that car, right?
It should feel-
Yeah, good decent.
Yeah, it's not gonna be a powerhouse,
but it'll feel good.
Yeah.
I'm pretty sure the mid-range is gonna be nice.
Right.
For all the response.
So, have you ever driven it with that setup yet,
at all?
Just cruising around the neighborhood.
I just have a very basic, like a base map on it.
I need to finish it up
and then actually get a dyno tuned.
Yeah, it's crazy.
So when you think about,
so when I think about building cars,
I always, I'm a very much from the ground up kind of person.
So for me, it's bushings and tires
and control arms and good quality suspension.
Like when you guys plan out your builds,
where does it start for you?
Do you start that same way
where you're looking at it from that viewpoint
or do you go in from a performance side
and work your way back?
What, how do you approach it?
I mean, I personally,
I think every single car I've ever had,
I think they all start with wheels, tires, suspension brakes.
But that's just me, right?
Then once I clear through that,
because I think like in doing that whole thing,
one, you're shaking apart a lot of the suspension and stuff.
So you're finding anything that's bad, right?
And if it's bad, ball joints or bushings or whatever,
I'm replacing it, right?
But the other thing is like, now I know,
I think like if you put on,
if you do suspension, brakes, wheels and tires,
you immediately have made that car feel way better.
Like it just inherently,
if you're putting the right stuff on.
So I start there and then the next thing I do
is I go straight into like power stuff.
It kind of always been the same way, I think.
Matt, same for you with that?
You know what, with the Civic,
I did not plan on putting that car on the road
until it was completely done, like ready to go.
So for me, it wasn't like,
I'm gonna do suspension and wheels and tires first
and get a feel for it and all that stuff.
I've already built that chassis before,
so there was no surprises for me.
So I think for me, when I did that one,
it was, everything was done in groups.
So I did all of the suspension at once,
any of the cars up on jack stands
and everything's torn out of it.
So a lot of PCI stuff, a lot of very cool stuff.
I did everything suspension related all at once
and then braking all at once and then the engine all.
So it was all done in groups
and interior was a couple months of time as well.
I already knew like the wheel size and tire,
all that stuff well before I even started.
So just a matter of ordering the parts
and then kind of grouping it all up
and then just going at it.
So I kind of refused to move on to another part
until that section was completely done.
Yeah.
I kind of kept a little bit of a schedule,
but I don't have a deadline.
It was just build it, you know?
I liked it.
But it kept me like focused.
So that way it was like, all right,
I'm gonna only be thinking of the suspension
for the next couple of weeks
and figuring out what I'm gonna do
and what I'm gonna do it.
That way I kind of kept everything in order
and then for me, it felt really smooth that way.
And when it was done, I was like, it was easy.
It was pretty straightforward.
There was no big surprises.
I'm finding myself falling into a little bit of bolt.
So on like my daily, I'm doing,
I did tires with a good tread wear.
Obviously I'm running the hypergrams on there right now.
I did sway bars, control arms,
lowered the car on fortune autos.
Everything has been done as far as suspension wise
and just a little bolt on stuff.
But then with the Z, I pulled the whole subframe out,
did all that all at once,
put all polyurethanes in,
did the control arms all at once,
put that all back in.
Very much that modular mindset
of similar to what Matt is discussing.
So it's funny that I guess depending on usage
or like the project,
it's kind of how you're gonna have to approach it.
Because if you plan on using the car the next weekend,
you can't really have it completely disassembled.
It's a lot different than when I was younger
and I had to use the car to go to work
or go to school or whatever.
I didn't have the option to like put it up on Jacksense
for six months or whatever.
You know what I mean?
So it's a lot different.
I did notice that,
I did the Civic later than the Integra.
With the Integra,
I ended up going backward a little bit
because it's probably what I did.
I think I broke an ax or something.
And I was up in there and I was like,
man, these bushings don't look great on this side.
So I'm also do the bushings on both sides.
And then I did all the bushings throughout the whole car.
And then the car was down for a little while
I was doing that.
And then I had to go back and get alignment again.
So I found myself sort of going backward.
And I think that sort of taught me a lesson
like with the Civic,
just do it all straight forward
from the very beginning,
do it right.
Don't put the car on the ground until you're ready to drive it.
And that's basically what I did.
So yeah.
That's interesting.
So, all right.
So before we wrap up here,
just kind of go around the virtual room here.
If you can,
if you're at the point now where
you have a couple of cars left
that you want to own for your stable,
let's pretend that,
we're not going to do the money, no object thing.
Let's be realistic here, right?
Right.
And then in addition to that,
let's also not do,
take away the variable of,
I don't know where I would keep it
because that's my struggle.
But like, so Matt,
what kind of, you go in first.
What kind of cars do you think?
I think if I was going to do another Honda build,
I've never built a DC2.
So I would like to do one of those,
not necessarily a Type R,
but I really like that chassis I always have.
So that would probably be a Honda one.
If it was going to be something non-Honda
and I wanted to learn from,
I'd really like to do a rotary and a MX-5.
Really?
It'd be fun.
Yeah.
I really like that idea.
I like the idea,
but I'll tell you,
I don't know that,
you know, the rotary world to me
is a very, very different place.
Yeah.
That's why I like it.
It's like the opposite.
I get it.
I will tell you that if you know anybody,
have you played with those Winkle engines at all?
I am so anti-rotor.
It's terrible.
I have a very close friend who loves them,
but I cannot do it.
So I will tell you that I was very,
I think the mystique of the whole thing
petrified me,
but then I have a friend that actually knows them
pretty well and I helped them assemble a three rotor.
Now, let me tell you something.
Well, it sounds like that.
But when this dude straight up started
gobbling Vaseline and it just all bolted together
in a matter of like,
you know, I mean,
I feel like it only took him like maybe an hour
to put the whole thing together.
And I was like,
like when they know,
when people know what they're doing with those things.
It's crazy.
But it does.
It makes it look like Legos.
The thing just bolts together so fast.
And I'm like,
I'm like, that's it.
And he's like, that's it.
I was like,
boom, boom, boom.
I've seen those guys that have like
all the pieces like in a bucket,
they take it all out,
they sum the bucket and they put it all together right there.
And it's like, it's crazy how good they are.
Oh, it's, it's wired.
I remember thinking like,
that's cool.
Like, and the fact that you can pick the engine up
and bring it over to your car.
And there's always so much room in the engine bay.
And you're like,
so there are some real big draws to it.
I get it.
It's pretty interesting.
I just,
I've never been able to get into the rotary thing.
So what's, what's your other,
what's your other bucket list cars, man?
So I would, I don't know.
I'm kind of leaning towards,
I really want to put a VK 56 in something,
probably in the white Z that I have at the house.
I would love to do a manual spot VK 56.
And I just drive that around.
A lot of people are starting to come around
some of that stuff.
You know, it's just,
it's such a good sounding engine
and the architecture is very nice on the engine.
So I like that.
And then I, as like a family car,
I would love to just do a newer Coyote supercharged
F-150 would be.
Yeah, I get you.
It would be nice to just drive around
through the kids in the back,
go to Home Depot if I have to
and you know, have fun with it.
Yeah, I get that.
That's interesting.
I don't know.
There's a different projects for sure.
Two Polar Answers.
Cause I got the kids that I gotta worry about too.
So it's like, might as well have something fun with them.
Yeah, I get it.
Ah, that's crazy.
So, so what's your, if you,
I think we all know the R33 is high on that list,
but what would be the R,
the dream, let's say the dream R33 build,
like what color and what would you do to it?
I think the color thing is tricky.
For some reason I still kind of lost after having one in white,
which I don't think is super unique,
but I just, I think that there's,
you know, just something about that period.
Throwing you wrong, there's like some of the,
like, you know, the red ones and stuff like that
that I would, you know, be very partial to, but,
but yeah, like I really,
I really want like, you know,
you know, one of the, you know,
V-spec, Nismo edition, you know, R33s,
which will never, that will never happen.
If I can get an R33 GTR, that would be great.
I think, you know, right up there,
I think that's pretty much kind of on the top
of my list as far as that goes.
I mean, obviously there's,
there's other, you know, JDM cars
and there's other, you know,
cars of that period that I would like, right?
But I think if you're going to ask me to pick like one,
like the R33 GTR to me is kind of that car
that I really do want.
I think obviously stereotypically,
like I would really like to have a Supra,
you know, an A80 Supra too.
But if I had to pick one, I picked the R33 GTR.
And what's the oddball car?
Since we both had an oddball, what would your oddball car,
what's the one car that nobody would expect you to want?
How about that?
Neon SR-T4.
No, nobody would expect anybody to want that car.
I don't care, that thing's a lot of fun.
My bad if you have one out there, but.
The four people just came off the video, congratulations.
I don't know if anybody would find this to be a curve ball
because I think people could probably see it.
But I really do, like on my bucket list
of a whole bunch of cars that I want to own,
I really like C6 Z06s.
I think that they're great cars, they're a lot of fun.
I think that they really have a level of bulletproof
and stoutness that's just not had by many.
And I think the car is really good on a racetrack.
I mean, it is the best Corvette and I will say that
and they can come at me in the comments,
but the Z6 Z06 in my opinion is by far the better.
I mean, I get that the new ones are faster and all that,
but there's something about the rear,
front engine rear configuration
and that was the pinnacle for them in my opinion.
And here's the thing, like that car
and I think the R33 GTR at one point in my life,
I probably will have both those cars as well,
but those to me are still at that top peak of obtainable,
like I mean, the C6 I can get,
but I mean, I talked about like the R33 GTR,
like I do believe at some point I'll cower
and I'll end up getting one of those cars somehow.
But I don't know if we'll be in any good condition,
but I'm gonna get one.
But you know, I mean, like obviously
if there was like a money no option type thing,
I mean, I really, really like, you know, GT3 RSs,
but that's like, we're in a whole other,
it's not even a whole different world at that point.
I won't, I don't think I'll ever own a GT3 RS,
like, because they just don't stop going up in price.
No.
You know?
See, but me, I'd rather have one of the older Porsches
to be honest, like the new ones are all cool,
like a 936.
Okay.
I mean, you're saying money's no object,
I mean, at that point.
Yeah, I mean, I got it.
I mean, listen, and here's the thing,
like I like the 997s, like I'm a big 997 fan,
but so is everybody else.
I don't know, I mean, but it's not,
I don't know that if you ask me like the cars
that I can't live without, that's not one of them.
No, not at all.
It's not one of them.
But yeah, I mean, just give me old Japanese stuff
that barely starts with the first turn of the key.
That's kind of where I'm at.
I don't know.
So anyhow, it was cool rapping about cars, you guys.
Fun to talk about things that we can't afford.
And I don't know.
So that's it.
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About this episode
Navigating the complexities of car builds, the hosts delve into personal preferences for wheels, brakes, and overall aesthetics. They discuss the challenges of modifying a Mitsubishi VR4 while maintaining its OE plus status, and share insights on various project cars, including a Civic and an Integra. The conversation touches on the evolution of car building philosophies, the importance of thoughtful modifications, and the joy of preserving classic vehicles. With a mix of humor and technical knowledge, the episode highlights the passion that drives automotive enthusiasts.
In this episode of the Behind the Wheel Podcast from Konig Wheels, we’ve got Scott, Nick, and Matt – three car guys hanging out and talking about their current builds, what parts they’re throwing on, and where their projects are headed.
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