The Story Behind Our Honda K20 Engine Build

We recently took our Honda K20 engine to the shop to have it apart and inspect its condition. As we took it out, we noticed that Fong had previously installed a K series stock bottom and back on it, which we decided to put back together again. This was because Fong had needed the original motor for his car, and by putting the stock pieces back on, we could see what was originally in the engine.

The Motor from Nebraska

After putting everything back together, we raised the motor, which revealed that it had been shipped out of Nebraska without a motor. We also found that our old motor had only 6,000 miles on it and was running at an impressive 500 horsepower. Not bad for a stock transmission! The car had never needed any nose bone stock, but we knew that would change as the power output increased.

The Decision to Build

As we were working on the engine, one of our crew members mentioned that they thought we should put two rods in it or go back to stock rod configuration. However, we decided against it since we wanted to see how much power the car could handle with its current setup. We also knew that if we waited for summer to come back around, we would lose valuable time building and testing the car.

The CSS Block

Just as we were about to get started on the build, we received some great news - our sponsor, CSS, was willing to help us out by providing a block for our engine. This was a huge relief, as it meant that we wouldn't have to spend any more time or money building one ourselves. The CSS block would not only provide us with the necessary foundation for the engine but also come equipped with rods and pistons.

The Goal of 800 Horsepower

With the CSS block in place, our goal for the upcoming season became clear - to push the car to an impressive 800 horsepower. We knew that this would require some significant modifications, including a new transmission, and we were eager to get started on the build. With the CSS sponsorship, we felt confident that we could achieve our goal and make some serious progress in the racing world.

The Future of Our Honda K20

As we look to the future, it's clear that our Honda K20 engine will be undergoing a significant transformation. We'll be swapping out the stock transmission for something more capable, and with the CSS block providing a solid foundation, we're excited to see what kind of power we can generate. With over 500 horsepower already on board, there's no doubt that this car will be a force to be reckoned with on the track. We'll be keeping an eye out for any updates or news about our project and will be sure to share it all with you as it happens.

Milky's Honda Build

In other news, Milky has recently started working on his own Honda build, swapping in a new engine and transmission. With his Emilio roots, we're excited to see what kind of progress he'll make. We'll be keeping an eye out for updates from the Milio camp and sharing them with you as they happen.

The Big Swap

Finally, we can't forget about the big swap that's been in the works - swapping out our current Honda engine for a new one. This is going to be a major undertaking, but we're confident that it will pay off in the end. With the CSS block and rods in place, we're ready to start building and pushing this car to its limits.

The History of Our Honda K20

As we work on our current engine build, it's hard not to think about the history of our trusty Honda K20. This engine has been through a lot, including two previous motors and one ej2 that didn't quite make the cut. We've also had to deal with oil starvation and rod bearing issues in the past, but we're determined to put those issues behind us.

Fong's Previous Experience

We recently learned about Fong's experience with our Honda K20 engine. He had borrowed the third K series motor from us and installed it in his car. We were happy to have been able to help him out, and now that motor is sitting in our shop once again.

The Future of Our Racing Season

As we look to the future, it's clear that this will be a busy season for us. With the CSS sponsorship providing a solid foundation, we're excited to see what kind of progress we can make on the track. We'll be keeping an eye out for any updates or news about our project and will be sure to share it all with you as it happens.

The CSS Sponsorship

Finally, we want to take a moment to thank our sponsor, CSS, for their generous support. Their sponsorship has allowed us to focus on building the best possible engine for our car, and we're grateful for their investment in our project. With CSS by our side, we're confident that we can achieve great things on the track.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enfunny in there dude it looks so funny what's going on guys back at the shop I'm going to apologize right now for the lighting so sorry if it is bad at some points of the video we have a couple of lights out right now and we're going to be working in this corner of the shop so just wanted to mention that real quick but today we are going to be working on the Honda rue so here we have the K 24 that we first put in this thing when we first got the Han drew up and running this was over in my garage and I brought it over today we got it up on this engine stand and today we're gonna be tearing into it and turning it all the way down to the bare block because we got some pretty exciting news for Han drew you want to explain what's going on so we've been talking to Johnny from CSS and we talked to a couple months ago but we weren't really ready to work on the car and now we are so they're gonna we're gonna send out this block and they're gonna do the full like their little race package it's gonna get o ring it's gonna get home and CSS so we're gonna send that out they'll send it back and we'll be some Pistons and rods in it and start the Honda rebuild get that new turbo on there the new manifold everything it's finally gonna happen and for those of you who don't know CSS stands for cylinder support system so what they do is they take the stock block and they machine out around the cylinders and then they press in a CNC block guard they'll go around each cylinder and then they read ekit and everything and that will add a lot of support to the cylinder walls and many people are making well over a thousand horsepower on CSS blocks out there so this is the K 24 like I said that we first pulled out of it we broke we didn't break it but we've been a rod on to step I think the motors her a little bit the two sim was too rowdy dude yeah the motors making a noise it's not good but it was pretty rowdy and yeah bent arad nothing else is wrong with the motor other than that BETT rod so we're gonna go ahead and tear this one apart get it completely bare and then we will be able to send it out to CSS they'll do their thing get it ready and then they'll send it back to us we are going with the K 24 because we'll be able to make more torque more displacement you know never hurts and then we're gonna try to see if we can find a K 20 like Type S head or something to put on there right now how's the K 24 head but the K 20 heads do flow a lot better once we send out the block it'll be like you know since it's the holidays right now it'll be like two to three weeks before we get it back so we'll have time to actually look for a head and and actually build it so that way when we get the block put it together just gonna try to get Han drew up and going for next season we're shooting for like hopefully about 800 horsepower for now we're gonna see what that turbo can do and it should be pretty wild so ponder version 2 is gonna be coming soon but yeah we're just going to go ahead and jump right into it there's really not much more to say we're gonna go ahead and rip her apart so we're just gonna go ahead and start pulling the cams off pull the head studs get the head off there pull the pan pull the crank puller prods and pistons out pull it all apart till it's a bear block oh that poor rod look at that thing that two-step was too much dog man too much Tuesday bro this one looks like the one with it did we bend two rods boy yeah we did they're both panel they're yeah cuz I was like there's no way that one's straight oh that one's worse than though yeah that's the one we were talking about one let's look at the other Tuesday now let's see if our super solid yeah you good I was talking about that one in four yeah yeah there have been two rods do it do it right about to step dog yeah - step two rods we're gonna do with these what they should look like and what they shouldn't look like sounds bad that one's this is the one we saw that first isn't actually hit the ball yeah it just barely touched it like on the bottom of baby Nick and this one found in this one's competitions I think we won that one I mean Brent told me my settings were good enough they were good the rods good yeah the rods just couldn't hang I don't know how those hold 500 they do go that's it cranks good yeah it just needs some CSS and some rods and pistons yeah they'll go through it and get her all freshened up they all the bearings awesome no wailing issues on that one you know all this open space around the cylinder walls it's all gonna get closed up so then we can't crack a sleeve up top make them a lot stronger hold all the boost all right guys we got the block completely tore down we got everything off of it turns out we actually bent two out of the four rods we thought it only bent one but this one isn't too bad and then that one's really bent it actually hit the bottom of the cylinder just a little bit but that's not going to be an issue after we send it over to CSS they'll go through Rihanna and it's a very bottom of the cylinder where it did hit that's not even where the piston even reaches anyways so that'll all be alright but yeah if bent are pretty good that two-step was definitely definitely gnarly but it's all tore down so now we just have to wait until Monday to get it shipped out since it's Saturday right now and the post office is gonna be closed tomorrow anyways by the time we get it ready and it is the holidays so who knows when they're actually gonna get it it's only the track opens up in April over here yeah might as well try to get it up and going as fast as we can though so also - one thing that we did not mention was the last motor that was in here was actually a k20a - completely stocked there was nothing nothing done to it so that was actually the motor we had we had since James back Jamie you're good so that the K 28 - was the last motor we had in there that was completely stocked we actually we put that's the motor we put 6,000 miles on so that's the motor that it was after streetcar takeover that's the motor we took to Nebraska drove it all the way down there raced neighbor and did all that and before that so we'll start from the beginning from the beginning it was that the first ej that was in there was already built so that one I got with the car and then that one's the one that had I think if it was a rod knock so I put another block in it which was already built so all I did was take my old heads off put it on so those motors we didn't even build the build so that one had to issue too and then that's when we put the K 24 which was this motor so then we put this motor in and then that's the one that we got a little rowdy with the two-step so we can see we've been 2 rods my bad it was fun though and then so right after that we found actually had a k20a 2 extra motor so he's like go ahead and use that for now so we went ahead and and then also Brent had that build block that you guys saw it was the built K 20 block so he just took the K 20 K 28 to head and we put it on Brent's built block that he just had laying around in his storage or whatever and then we were still kind of going through issues with the car so we didn't really know it was getting starved for oil and we didn't know how many quarts and all this because you know we put this car together we kind of just we didn't we didn't know what it was gonna do or what it needed until it actually you know unfortunately we had to go through two motors so that one it was just because it was like 2 quarts low yeah it was just literally 2 quarts low because right now like if anything less than 6 quarts it's it's too low so we keep at least six and a half and then like seven if we're racing it that's something we never mentioned though yeah that's because the motor sideways so the g-forces push them away from the pickup tube and you've got the flapper in there yeah it's just figuring out how much oil needs to be in there yeah so in the beginning that's what we had to do we had it figured out you know we had to go through these motors but then again it's like no one wrote a book on this knowing you know we didn't know what I was gonna do but now we do and we went through those yeah we're right in the book well that's something we never told anyone yeah that's a built motor so everybody thought that this one a barrel this was the bill k20 which is not it was the stock the stock motor so we took that one back out yeah so ever since the streetcar takeover it's been a stock motor yeah so going back a streetcar takeover it was the built one you know and then we were low on oil so it started to knock and then we took it back to the shop to get apart and then we put the K 20 stock bottom and back on it so it would have been the original motor that Fong had so we put that back together and we stuck it in and that was the motor from then on I mean yeah they went to Nebraska without motor yeah we raised a weight that motor that's the one in 111 301 that we put we put six thousand miles on it and at like 500 horsepower and never had one nose bone stock it yeah the whole time stop so there's a lot of people talking on the internet and you you know they you hear so many stories but that's why I kind of wanted to go through it and let you guys know you know what actually was in the car so right now funk needed that motor so since we were waiting on the clutch and you know it's winter right now so we can't really do anything we could go drifted he needed that motor so he had yeah we could but he so he has that back and then so now we're doing a CSS block and then we're gonna now we're just gonna get into the building so it was we working at any time yeah we were gonna just fix this one because we have some other stock rods laying around but since it's already out since we're still waiting on the clutch we were just like might as well like we could fix that you know we could put two rods in it or whatever put some put it back to stock but then again it's like you know yeah the only reason we wanted to do that was because we wanted to see it go like a 10 on the stock motor but it's like you know if we wait for the summer to come back around just to run that 10 we lose all this time to build it now you know because I mean we're eventually we're gonna get kicked off the track you know if you run an 11-5 or faster you already have to have some type of cage in it and we already ran 11th spending all four so you know it's only a matter of time we're gonna get deeper into you know the tens III mean I'm sure I could think Condor you should have easy nines in my next season so now it's like build it now you know while we have the time instant to CSS I'm dying to help us out that's a big help to cuz CSS they're sponsoring us now so they're gonna actually do the block for us and then they're gonna give us a set of rods and pistons and that we're gonna put the motor together and then yeah we're just gonna push it and see what we can do right now the only thing that's actually stopping us from making you know is much like I mean I don't know how much power we can make on the stock transmission but that's gonna be the next thing we have to change you know once we start making all this power so hopefully it could hold 800 and yeah it's gonna be fun we're Milio swapping the honda right now it's gonna be the Emilio root can you fit in there good don't cut yourself like look at that corner right by your head Lita look so funny these are gonna think it's photoshopped it looks so hilarious that's perfect alright guys third swap well guys that's pretty much it for this video sorry if there was just a lot of talking but we didn't get the motor torn apart did what we needed to do we have big things in store for the Honda rue come and see them so once we get that block shipped out the guys already CSS we'll go from there and then we'll get it back hopefully you know in the next few weeks or something like that and we'll just start putting it together from there and we're gonna shoot for like about 800 horsepower for the 800 that's the goal for now so Honda is gonna rip with a built motor for sure this time it will be a fully built motor not just rods and pistons and yeah you guys got the full history Honda roof so it has gone through two motors well you bended the Ross two Honda Motors and one ej2 since you've had it one since you've jalapeno one since I've had yeah so yeah it makes it make the story short yeah one ej that we did not build and then first k series bent the rods cuz a rally to step ii built K series oil starvation at the track spinal rod bearing and then the third K series we borrowed from Fong and nothing was wrong with that he just needed it back for his car and now it's sitting where it is so that's where she's at Thank You Man it's gonna be a pretty night guys hope you enjoy it and as always thanks for watchingfunny in there dude it looks so funny what's going on guys back at the shop I'm going to apologize right now for the lighting so sorry if it is bad at some points of the video we have a couple of lights out right now and we're going to be working in this corner of the shop so just wanted to mention that real quick but today we are going to be working on the Honda rue so here we have the K 24 that we first put in this thing when we first got the Han drew up and running this was over in my garage and I brought it over today we got it up on this engine stand and today we're gonna be tearing into it and turning it all the way down to the bare block because we got some pretty exciting news for Han drew you want to explain what's going on so we've been talking to Johnny from CSS and we talked to a couple months ago but we weren't really ready to work on the car and now we are so they're gonna we're gonna send out this block and they're gonna do the full like their little race package it's gonna get o ring it's gonna get home and CSS so we're gonna send that out they'll send it back and we'll be some Pistons and rods in it and start the Honda rebuild get that new turbo on there the new manifold everything it's finally gonna happen and for those of you who don't know CSS stands for cylinder support system so what they do is they take the stock block and they machine out around the cylinders and then they press in a CNC block guard they'll go around each cylinder and then they read ekit and everything and that will add a lot of support to the cylinder walls and many people are making well over a thousand horsepower on CSS blocks out there so this is the K 24 like I said that we first pulled out of it we broke we didn't break it but we've been a rod on to step I think the motors her a little bit the two sim was too rowdy dude yeah the motors making a noise it's not good but it was pretty rowdy and yeah bent arad nothing else is wrong with the motor other than that BETT rod so we're gonna go ahead and tear this one apart get it completely bare and then we will be able to send it out to CSS they'll do their thing get it ready and then they'll send it back to us we are going with the K 24 because we'll be able to make more torque more displacement you know never hurts and then we're gonna try to see if we can find a K 20 like Type S head or something to put on there right now how's the K 24 head but the K 20 heads do flow a lot better once we send out the block it'll be like you know since it's the holidays right now it'll be like two to three weeks before we get it back so we'll have time to actually look for a head and and actually build it so that way when we get the block put it together just gonna try to get Han drew up and going for next season we're shooting for like hopefully about 800 horsepower for now we're gonna see what that turbo can do and it should be pretty wild so ponder version 2 is gonna be coming soon but yeah we're just going to go ahead and jump right into it there's really not much more to say we're gonna go ahead and rip her apart so we're just gonna go ahead and start pulling the cams off pull the head studs get the head off there pull the pan pull the crank puller prods and pistons out pull it all apart till it's a bear block oh that poor rod look at that thing that two-step was too much dog man too much Tuesday bro this one looks like the one with it did we bend two rods boy yeah we did they're both panel they're yeah cuz I was like there's no way that one's straight oh that one's worse than though yeah that's the one we were talking about one let's look at the other Tuesday now let's see if our super solid yeah you good I was talking about that one in four yeah yeah there have been two rods do it do it right about to step dog yeah - step two rods we're gonna do with these what they should look like and what they shouldn't look like sounds bad that one's this is the one we saw that first isn't actually hit the ball yeah it just barely touched it like on the bottom of baby Nick and this one found in this one's competitions I think we won that one I mean Brent told me my settings were good enough they were good the rods good yeah the rods just couldn't hang I don't know how those hold 500 they do go that's it cranks good yeah it just needs some CSS and some rods and pistons yeah they'll go through it and get her all freshened up they all the bearings awesome no wailing issues on that one you know all this open space around the cylinder walls it's all gonna get closed up so then we can't crack a sleeve up top make them a lot stronger hold all the boost all right guys we got the block completely tore down we got everything off of it turns out we actually bent two out of the four rods we thought it only bent one but this one isn't too bad and then that one's really bent it actually hit the bottom of the cylinder just a little bit but that's not going to be an issue after we send it over to CSS they'll go through Rihanna and it's a very bottom of the cylinder where it did hit that's not even where the piston even reaches anyways so that'll all be alright but yeah if bent are pretty good that two-step was definitely definitely gnarly but it's all tore down so now we just have to wait until Monday to get it shipped out since it's Saturday right now and the post office is gonna be closed tomorrow anyways by the time we get it ready and it is the holidays so who knows when they're actually gonna get it it's only the track opens up in April over here yeah might as well try to get it up and going as fast as we can though so also - one thing that we did not mention was the last motor that was in here was actually a k20a - completely stocked there was nothing nothing done to it so that was actually the motor we had we had since James back Jamie you're good so that the K 28 - was the last motor we had in there that was completely stocked we actually we put that's the motor we put 6,000 miles on so that's the motor that it was after streetcar takeover that's the motor we took to Nebraska drove it all the way down there raced neighbor and did all that and before that so we'll start from the beginning from the beginning it was that the first ej that was in there was already built so that one I got with the car and then that one's the one that had I think if it was a rod knock so I put another block in it which was already built so all I did was take my old heads off put it on so those motors we didn't even build the build so that one had to issue too and then that's when we put the K 24 which was this motor so then we put this motor in and then that's the one that we got a little rowdy with the two-step so we can see we've been 2 rods my bad it was fun though and then so right after that we found actually had a k20a 2 extra motor so he's like go ahead and use that for now so we went ahead and and then also Brent had that build block that you guys saw it was the built K 20 block so he just took the K 20 K 28 to head and we put it on Brent's built block that he just had laying around in his storage or whatever and then we were still kind of going through issues with the car so we didn't really know it was getting starved for oil and we didn't know how many quarts and all this because you know we put this car together we kind of just we didn't we didn't know what it was gonna do or what it needed until it actually you know unfortunately we had to go through two motors so that one it was just because it was like 2 quarts low yeah it was just literally 2 quarts low because right now like if anything less than 6 quarts it's it's too low so we keep at least six and a half and then like seven if we're racing it that's something we never mentioned though yeah that's because the motor sideways so the g-forces push them away from the pickup tube and you've got the flapper in there yeah it's just figuring out how much oil needs to be in there yeah so in the beginning that's what we had to do we had it figured out you know we had to go through these motors but then again it's like no one wrote a book on this knowing you know we didn't know what I was gonna do but now we do and we went through those yeah we're right in the book well that's something we never told anyone yeah that's a built motor so everybody thought that this one a barrel this was the bill k20 which is not it was the stock the stock motor so we took that one back out yeah so ever since the streetcar takeover it's been a stock motor yeah so going back a streetcar takeover it was the built one you know and then we were low on oil so it started to knock and then we took it back to the shop to get apart and then we put the K 20 stock bottom and back on it so it would have been the original motor that Fong had so we put that back together and we stuck it in and that was the motor from then on I mean yeah they went to Nebraska without motor yeah we raised a weight that motor that's the one in 111 301 that we put we put six thousand miles on it and at like 500 horsepower and never had one nose bone stock it yeah the whole time stop so there's a lot of people talking on the internet and you you know they you hear so many stories but that's why I kind of wanted to go through it and let you guys know you know what actually was in the car so right now funk needed that motor so since we were waiting on the clutch and you know it's winter right now so we can't really do anything we could go drifted he needed that motor so he had yeah we could but he so he has that back and then so now we're doing a CSS block and then we're gonna now we're just gonna get into the building so it was we working at any time yeah we were gonna just fix this one because we have some other stock rods laying around but since it's already out since we're still waiting on the clutch we were just like might as well like we could fix that you know we could put two rods in it or whatever put some put it back to stock but then again it's like you know yeah the only reason we wanted to do that was because we wanted to see it go like a 10 on the stock motor but it's like you know if we wait for the summer to come back around just to run that 10 we lose all this time to build it now you know because I mean we're eventually we're gonna get kicked off the track you know if you run an 11-5 or faster you already have to have some type of cage in it and we already ran 11th spending all four so you know it's only a matter of time we're gonna get deeper into you know the tens III mean I'm sure I could think Condor you should have easy nines in my next season so now it's like build it now you know while we have the time instant to CSS I'm dying to help us out that's a big help to cuz CSS they're sponsoring us now so they're gonna actually do the block for us and then they're gonna give us a set of rods and pistons and that we're gonna put the motor together and then yeah we're just gonna push it and see what we can do right now the only thing that's actually stopping us from making you know is much like I mean I don't know how much power we can make on the stock transmission but that's gonna be the next thing we have to change you know once we start making all this power so hopefully it could hold 800 and yeah it's gonna be fun we're Milio swapping the honda right now it's gonna be the Emilio root can you fit in there good don't cut yourself like look at that corner right by your head Lita look so funny these are gonna think it's photoshopped it looks so hilarious that's perfect alright guys third swap well guys that's pretty much it for this video sorry if there was just a lot of talking but we didn't get the motor torn apart did what we needed to do we have big things in store for the Honda rue come and see them so once we get that block shipped out the guys already CSS we'll go from there and then we'll get it back hopefully you know in the next few weeks or something like that and we'll just start putting it together from there and we're gonna shoot for like about 800 horsepower for the 800 that's the goal for now so Honda is gonna rip with a built motor for sure this time it will be a fully built motor not just rods and pistons and yeah you guys got the full history Honda roof so it has gone through two motors well you bended the Ross two Honda Motors and one ej2 since you've had it one since you've jalapeno one since I've had yeah so yeah it makes it make the story short yeah one ej that we did not build and then first k series bent the rods cuz a rally to step ii built K series oil starvation at the track spinal rod bearing and then the third K series we borrowed from Fong and nothing was wrong with that he just needed it back for his car and now it's sitting where it is so that's where she's at Thank You Man it's gonna be a pretty night guys hope you enjoy it and as always thanks for watching\n"