The Thrill of Racing: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Prelude's Upgrades and Adventures

As we prepare to take our prelude back out on the track, I couldn't help but feel a mix of excitement and nervousness. We've been working tirelessly to upgrade and fine-tune our ride, and today was the day we would put it all to the test. The goal was to break the previous personal best of 96 at 161 and see if we could make some significant improvements.

The track was looking a bit damp from the earlier rain showers, but after a quick check-up, everything seemed good to go. I slipped into the driver's seat, feeling a sense of anticipation wash over me as I put the car in gear. The prelude roared to life, and with a smooth acceleration, we began our journey down the track. The initial performance was promising, but it quickly became apparent that the axles were going to be the weak link. Just 161 feet into the run, the rear axle snapped, leaving us to wonder what could have been.

The team sprang into action, jumping out of the car and assessing the damage. We knew we had to act fast to minimize the loss and get the car back on the track as soon as possible. After a quick trip to the parts store, we managed to scrounge up a replacement axle, which was installed with all due haste. As we prepared for our next attempt, I couldn't help but feel a sense of trepidation about what lay ahead. Would the new axle hold up? Only time would tell.

We slipped back into position, ready to give it another shot. This time around, we opted for a slightly more conservative approach, hoping to avoid any further drama with the axles. The track was still sticky from the earlier rain showers, and I knew that any slight misstep could result in disaster. As we began our run, I felt a sense of focus wash over me. We were going to make this happen.

But just as things were starting to look up, disaster struck once again. In a shocking turn of events, the oil pump shattered, sending a wave of panic through the team. We knew that without an oil pump, our car was doomed to struggle. The timing belt had already been pulled off, and I couldn't help but wonder what other surprises lay in store for us.

As we made our way back to the shop, it became clear that the prelude's midlife crisis was far from over. Despite our best efforts, we had managed to break another axle – this time on the driver's side. We knew that an upgraded set of axles was long overdue, and I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement about the prospect of tackling the challenge head-on.

As we sat in the shop, waiting for the sun to rise and our next attempt at racing, I couldn't help but reflect on the journey thus far. From broken axles to shattered oil pumps, it's been a wild ride. But through it all, we've remained committed to our goal of upgrading and improving our trusty prelude.

As we wait for the morning light to bring a new day, I know that tomorrow will be just as eventful – if not more so. Will we succeed in erasing the oil pump's memory? Can we tame the beast that is our midlife crisis-prone engine? Only time will tell. But one thing is certain: with friends like you and a ride like this prelude, every day is an adventure waiting to happen.

The thrill of racing may be addictive, but it also comes with its fair share of challenges. We're not just talking about the usual suspects – a broken axle or a misaligned suspension can throw even the most seasoned driver off course. No, in the world of track days and upgrade-fueled madness, anything can happen.

That's why we're always on the lookout for new upgrades, new parts, and new ways to push our ride to its limits. And what better way to celebrate reaching 1 million subscribers than with a video that's equal parts action-packed and drama-filled? From broken gears to shattered axles, it's been quite the wild ride.

So here's to you, our amazing community of boys – we wouldn't be where we are today without your support. Your enthusiasm has carried us through the ups and downs, and for that, I'm eternally grateful. And as we look to the future, one thing is clear: with friends like you by my side, every adventure is worth taking.

The next chapter in our prelude's journey was already on the horizon – a new set of axles, upgraded engine, and all the thrills that came with it. We were itching for the release, ready to put our newly improved ride through its paces once more. The question on everyone's mind? Would this time be different?

Only one thing is certain: as long as we've got friends like you cheering us on, every track day is a celebration waiting to happen.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enit is boys one million alright prelude well boys today we rolled over 1 million subscribers and i just want to thank you guys so much especially for all the ogs that have been there through the beginning to see how much we've been through to get to this point it's just awesome guys i never thought the channel would get to this point and it just continues to keep growing i'm glad you guys are enjoying the content and you continue to support and watch the videos without you guys it would not be possible any of this would not be possible so thank you guys so much and we did a live stream when we hit the million subscribers i was just sitting down with bran i shotgunned a monster and punched a sheet of drywall at the end so if you guys want to check it out that should be up on the channel as well we just kind of watched some old videos kind of seeing where we came from but you know i quickly realized during the live stream that we have done a lot in the last four to five years because the channel is about to be five years old this august it will be like officially about five years that we've been doing this so we've just done so much in that time so maybe uh let me know what your favorite video was that we've ever done or what video got you on to watching the channel curious to hear from you guys but thank you guys it's freaking awesome so hopefully we can continue to grow the channel and just keep doing our thing and keep doing these cool projects and you guys will keep enjoying them and keep on watching so we can keep turning this thing into something even bigger who knows if this is only the beginning or not i hope it is yeah thank you guys a lot and i was going to update you guys we have jamie's integra and the prelude back here on the trailer unfortunately we did not get to go to the track yesterday in race because the event did get rained out which does suck and my flight was supposed to leave back to florida wednesday morning but i'm actually getting my flight pushed back a day so we can take the prelude to a test and tune on wednesday and i can actually make some passes in it while i'm down here in colorado so i'm gonna be staying down here until we can make some hits in the prelude hopefully we get that thing back in the nines and maybe we can crank it up even more and get a personal best we'll see what happens but yeah i'm just super pumped on that million guys thank you cannot stop thinking about that it has been the goal of the channel since you know once it rolled over like 50k to 100 i was like there's something here i think we can really make something out of this channel because what we have is just so cool and unique i think so thank you guys a lot and uh that's going to do it for right now but we'll be sticking around till wednesday run the prelude and i don't know what else i'm going to be doing while we're down here in colorado but i will be filming for you guys along the way and also i did want to mention i am going to be working on a 1 million subscriber video i've already started on it some i was hoping to have it done sooner so i could release it around the time we actually rolled over a million but i needed some more clips i am working on that it probably won't be done for maybe a week or so i'm going to try to do my best to get it done but i still have to wait until i get back to florida to finish it up but i'm going to be putting together a video that uh you know to me will probably be pretty special and hopefully you guys will enjoy it so i will be working on that and i'll let you guys know once it does come out two years this car has been sitting and jaden's finally yeah getting her fired up finally it's gonna be yeah it's gonna be cool it's all done see what it sounds like see if the motor is hurt or not i think it's gonna be fine i think it'd be good yeah should be it she'll ride all right everything's on there i think so has oil has fluids yes how's power yes all sensors are operating everything's live yep we can turn the fuel pump got the dash on down there yep i mean you've already had it running on the holly before so we know it's going to start all right oh yeah it's so i quiet it sounded pretty good it was like it didn't sound like it was missing to me though it's really that's really quiet though do you think loose is it really you excited oh yeah hell yeah decent dude first fire and pretty uneventful a long time yeah it sounds good it's not bad like you know the charge pipes are hooked up or anything but yeah you got to get your coolant lines finished up and i'm tired but i'm happy yeah i'm going to do the cool lines for this weekend all i got to do is um i got to block off that hole and then put a fill cap on it and then i'll put water in there i can hide it way longer nice it's good to finally see this thing up and going again dude it's been so long now it looks so good that you actually put your time and effort into it i know instead of the crappy ebay turbos that it had on there before it's not all janky now it actually looks nice just compared to the old setup it just stole setup was so bad i know it's so unique dude that intake pipe looks so crazy yeah i never even posted any pictures i didn't see that that's yeah you changed that up this is cool like the little crisscross pattern you got going on that day yes yeah that's very artsy when are you gonna get the crx back up and going that's the real question i was getting ready to head out of here but forgot to show that hayden picked up the og car his crx intro huh yeah that's from the og intro dude it took me two years to get this thing done i mean what are we talking here no i'll probably worry about that like in the wintertime when i'm bored but for now i'm focusing on this thing because i got i i oh yeah you'll be really bored in the winter yeah yeah with all the work i have yeah well i'm glad to see that thing fire up but i really want to see the crx come back it's been so long he sold this thing to some guy and has just been sitting ever since and he ended up getting it back for the same price that he sold it to him for and now he has it again and she's completely gutted out but i'm hoping hayden gets the crx back up and going one day that would be awesome all right guys we're about to roll over a million subs i need to make a quick stop over here at the home depot oh yeah here we go some perfect punch size pieces ready to go get a couple of those oh how convenient i'm gonna need some of these how are you getting that one ready to shotgun yeah oh there it is dang there it is you guys are awesome now go to subscribe to pfi speed and fong's channel all motor phones we just turned the million bro jamie just walked in all right there we go going down hard that's too much boys i don't think you're supposed to do that with monsters right boys we did it million one million that is nuts there it is boys one million we did we've been live i just shotgunned a monster yeah still still settling in the stomach all over me cheers we did it i'm glad to be here with you guys stoked you're here here's my monster that still has some in it congrats you know i don't want any more of this oh it's great fantastic man oh shoot they're getting ready to fire up shane crx almost you're on oh oh it moves it looks so tough he has brakes right brakes that's a good question all right heads up guys he might not have brakes nice that's freaking awesome it honestly might have a nice took off so much dude just wanted to go it just wants to go i think it might have a little vacuum leak and that's why when you turn the fuel down it idles up so high shane's gonna be a heavy load is keeping her he's gonna be busy this next week getting this thing radiator in yeah he's gonna be taking it to mcdonald's as soon as we not to do but you drove it yeah you jumped all-wheel drive c-rex hdb all all yeah all goofy built congratulations this is awesome this is awesome got your truck back i got my truck back finally man no one's even seen this thing because this truck has been broken for longer than the channels even existed and brent finally got a new engine for his dodge here this thing broke down on a long time ago hold up getting a phone call but finally got her back up and going now we're gonna take it to go get some waffle house to celebrate yes sir it's awesome get larry up in here it's like the same color as mine pretty much yeah it's one generation older oh you got the flip out screen yeah they just installed that too oh that's fast yeah i didn't even know i was like what is that you can tell it's been uh used to bring some parts around by how how many engines how many marks are in the bed there holy crap look at well guys it is the following day and we are actually here at the track i am in my racing gear right now and we're actually getting to make some passes in the prelude we were supposed to be here tomorrow but there was actually another private test day today and today's private test day is good because they are only allowing slick cars to run so the track prep should be a lot better they're not letting just the average street car run today so we're hoping we can make some good passes in the prelude today we still have it on the 880 horsepower tune fresh off the dyno and i'm going to be doing a shakedown pass on this current tune and then we can turn it back up from there so the goal is to hopefully put this thing back into the nines and you know maybe we can shoot for a new personal best in this thing the best we have done in the prelude so far is a 96 at 161 so hopefully we can make sure everything's still dialed out kind of knock the dust off this thing and then keep turning it up from there and see if she holds it together and just have some fun and make some passes so we're getting ready to go put her in line right now i already got tucked in everything's ready to go it was raining a little bit earlier but the tracks all dried off now and they just called everyone up to the lanes so we'll see what this thing has brent's gonna be driving today as well yeah it's gonna be fun so making some hits got his son out here too stephen we're all racing today so this is awesome yeah it's gonna be cool and jamie has this integra back there so we might have missed the race which kind of sucked but at least we can come out here and test you get a pretty good burnout and there goes an axle axle right away i even tried to go to the parts store to bring some spares i knew it was gonna bust an axle dang it dude all right guys so we snapped that axle pretty good right on the shaft clean off in two pieces and i just ran to a parts store to pick up a replacement axle actually got one for the driver's side and an extra for the passenger side if we happen to break that one right away but this o'reilly's that had these in stock was over a half hour away and the service was so so not that great i had to wait there forever there was quite the line and eventually got an axle so we killed about an hour and a half but i got the axle changed out and that is definitely the next thing that is going to get upgraded on the prelude is some beefier axles we've been meaning to do this for so long guys but you know came back to colorado and first thing we do is bust another axle in the loot it just eats up another one but i got it replaced and we are getting ready to put this thing back in line and try it again i'm going to probably slip it a little more this time to try to save the axles i was getting antsy in there and i wanted this thing to just take off but uh yeah gonna go a little easier on it this time see if we can make a clean a to b pass so i'm gonna go ahead and put her back in line and get to it all right guys attempt number two we can only hope that those stock axles hold up for this one the track is definitely pretty sticky tonight and uh not to mention we did turn first gear up a little bit because we do want to try to get the front half better in this thing so the extra power probably isn't helping our situation here but you know we're gonna give it our best shot i'll do my best to slip it a little harder this time but you know at the end of the day they're either gonna hold or they're going to break in half again we'll get an upgraded set on the way next time we're out here messing with the prelude for sure oh dang it dude oh no dude i i two three two dude shattered the oil pump again man the first thing i looked at was you look great i mean as long as you know oil pressure you can just put a pump in it tomorrow and be fine i don't know if we have any more pumps i'm sure i have something new i'm sure i have something we'll see yeah yeah just show up in the morning we'll start pulling the timing belt off pull the oil pump off i mean it's not hard to get to in this car all right prelude another oil pump down and another midshift by kyle well we made it back to the shop and unfortunately the prelude needs a new oil pump and uh probably look at it tomorrow i am leaving tomorrow night so i'm not sure if we're gonna try to get another pump thrown in there and possibly erase it tomorrow at the next test and tune but we'll see how it goes but either way that's going to do it for this video and once again thank you guys so much for uh helping us roll over 1 million subscribers and i'm kind of realizing now that you know missing gears and breaking an axle in this video is a good way to kind of celebrate it because i don't think it would be a boosted boys video if it you know it didn't end that way so you know broken axle and uh miss shifted so so maybe now we can uh work on that yeah yeah that's gonna do it for tonight thank you guys for watching and we will see you later you\n"