**Big Mike's Unstoppable Honda Prelude**

Overboard with the design, this car still looks like something that could have come from the factory. A really aggressive factory, where they produce anger. The side skirts are custom too, and reinforce the Motorsport inspiration for this build both aesthetically and in function as well. The no-nonsense theme continues in the trunk. One of my favorite features about this car is the trunk release, which is just a little loop, right here. You pull it, boom, there's the trunk.

Now I want you Honda fanboys to look real close. You notice anything different? Hmm, do ya? You stumped? Normally in a Prelude, the indentation for the spare tire is offset to the left. Now this wasn't going to do for my man Big Mike because my man Big Mike got a little thing for symmetry. So he reworked the entire floor of the trunk to put the indentation in the center.

Also with the trunk open you can see the care that was put into placing the fuel filters and the surge tank. It's like a minimalist piece of art. You can also see how the roll bar and cage are integrated into the chassis. This Prelude be stiff.

In the driver's seat it feels familiar but still very race car. That's because instead of ripping out all the door panels and the dash and replacing them with sheet aluminum like a lot of dudes do, Big Mike and his team wanted to retain the feeling of an OEM Honda interior. So what they did was take the stock dash and door panels, fill in all the unnecessary vents and switch spaces, and cover them in beautiful Alcantara.

I wear Alcantara underwear. The gauges have been replaced with a single AiM digital display and Rywire control panel sits where the radio used to be. With these two components, Big Mike can control every function of the car in a real streamlined way. You know when Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone in 2007, people were stunned that the thing only had four buttons. I think he'd like this setup.

The shifter in this thing is a work of art all of its own. It's constructed of just a few CNC machined pieces. It looks like something out of a rally car, if not a spaceship. Now Big Mike wanted to keep the base open so that people could see the components, and the shifter's setup so you only have to move your hand a few inches off the wheel to shift.

I don't wanna go down here, I don't got time. Time me.

And now my favorite part of every show: Main, ignition. (mechanical whirring) (engine sputtering) (engine purring) (engine roaring) Oh, it smells like high school.

Getting a close look at this Prelude can be overwhelming at times. It's without a doubt one of the cleanest builds we have ever featured on this show. Everywhere you look, there's another perfectly executed detail just waiting to reveal itself. When Big Mike unveiled this car at the SEMA show in 2016, it started getting attention, a lot of it, and it was selected as a top 10 build for the entire show.

Do you know how many cars there are at SEMA? A lot! I've been there, I've seen it. At the time the SEMA top 10 was dominated by muscle cars and hot rods, but there was Mike with his one-of-a-kind Honda.

An immaculate build like this can be a little intimidating, but that wasn't Big Mike's goal. He says there's nothing in this build that's impossible to do in someone's home garage. He set out to build this car as a business card to show what he can do, but also to prove that it doesn't matter what kind of car someone starts with, their's can achieve greatness too.

Big thanks to Big Mike for letting us walk around his car and sharing it with us today. To follow more of his work, check him out on instagram, @TheBigMike, and check out his website, thinkbiggerproject.com. Follow us on instagram and twitter, @DonutMedia, follow me on instagram and twitter, @JamesPumphrey.

Got a lotta new shows coming out this summer, and make sure you don't miss any of them, go ahead and hit that subscribe button. You wanna buy some merch, go to donutmedia.com, join the mailing list to get 10% off your first order, and be the first to know about new drops.

If you like this video, hit the bell, ding ding ding. If you have a special car that you wanna see featured on this show, let us know in the comments. I love you. (laughs awkwardly)

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: en(car engine revving)- What does it mean to be obsessive?Ask Steve Jobs.His penchant for perfectiondefined his careerand changed the world in the process.So why am I talking about Steve Jobsin a fricking car video?Well, because I believe,if he had a Honda project car,it would look like this.(intense dreamy synth)Today we are going Bumper 2 Bumperon Big Mike's Honda Prelude.(fast-paced music)I just wanna give a big old thanksto this weeks' sponsor, ExpressVPN.If you use public wifi,your personal information is at risk.ExpressVPN is fast and reliable,and protects your data from all thosethose sneaky boys, leet haxxors,Chads and digital gremb-linstryna steal your stuff.I use ExpressVPN whenI'm shopping for shoesbecause I don't want anygremb-lins seeing my shoe size.I don't want people knowingmy social security numberis three-oh-eight-one-fours,one-seven-eight-nine.The best part though, ExpressVPNonly costs $7 a month and comes witha 30-day money back 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a little beat up,but Mike just wanted it as a daily driverso that didn't matter.About a year and a half went by,and Mike started to get an itch.One that couldn't be soothed by ointmentsor expensive salves.An itch that only new partsand a fresh coat of paint can scratch.From top to bottom, Mike put the Preludethrough a complete transformation.When it was done, it setthe Honda scene alight.In 2008, this Prelude wasin its first incarnation.A beautiful dark Merlot maroonwith a carbon fiberhood and chrome wheels.Big Mike also swapped out the engineand did a complete suspension job.If you were into Hondas back then,you probably remember thiscar, because it was a big deal.But Big Mike wasn'tsatisfied with the build.He went all out optimizingthe look of the Prelude again.Instead of building an entirely new car,Big Mike rebuilt thePrelude with a new lookthat grabbed your attentionlike no other Honda before it.Big Mike stripped the pinot paint joband resprayed it withForest Service green.That's right, Forest Service,the agency that looksafter our national parkshas its own paint, and itdoesn't even have a paint code.It's just called Forest Service green.(relaxed synth music)(car engine revving)Big Mike rebuilt the Preludewith an even bigger eye fordetail the second time around,becoming an even bigger figurein the Honda scene in the process.Like version one, Preludeversion two was a huge success.Two times now, Big Mikehad changed the Honda game.Surely that would suffice.Wrong!Steve Jobs had helped Applechange the tech game two times,with both the Macintosh in 1984and the original iMac in 1988.Big Mike did the same thingwith both versions of his Prelude,each time changing peoples' perceptionof how a Honda could be built.In 2016 Big Mike decided it was timeto do it one more time.This revision would proveto be the most radical.Not just for Mike,but it would be perhapsone of the most outlandishand obsessive Honda builds ever attempted.Like Apple did with the iPhone,Big Mike poised himself tochange the game once again.(dreamy synth music)let's start with the big picture stuff.You look at the engine, and right awayyou know this thing is different.Big Mike didn't opt touse the standard H-22mLthat originally came in the car.He swapped that out for an F20B,an option that came in Japanese Accordsin the late 90s, early 2000s.As it sits now though, it's been modified,just a little bit.Right away, the blue valvecover catches your eye,but this isn't just anyregular F20B valve cover,no way grandpa.Now in stock form, the engine is mountedwith a natural backwards slantand Mike, he didn't like that.He wanted it to looklike it was sitting flat.So instead of remounting the engine,he had the valve cover sectioned,meaning that about an inch of heightwas taken out from the middlethen the top was repositionedso that it was flat.He also removed the oil fill cap,which brings the cleanlinessto a whole 'nother level.When you look at the covernext to the stock pieceit's obvious how different it is,but if you didn't know,you might not notice it.And that's my favorite kinda stuff.There's building for thesake of being radical,but then there's stuff like thiswhich is radical for thesake of being better.And that takes some real craftsmanship.(dreamy synth music)Air enters the enginethrough a custom intake in the headlight,one of my favorite features of the car.The air continues through the air filterinto a Garrett GTX28 turbo,which itself is fed byone of the most beautifulequal length headers I've ever seen.Looks like a bunch of snakes.(soft hissing)This custom plenum further charges the airbefore it hits the velocitystacks living inside.What's the result?About 460 hers-pers, and 360 turks.(car engine roaring)The power is impressive, but even more sois the care and executionof this engine bay.Have you ever seen a prettierfour-banger in your life?No, trick question!Fun fact, the blue valve coverwas intentionally matchedto the stock Honda blue oil filter.(snorts)And the braided oil linesshare the same blue hue.The detail in this car is astounding.I mean the fricking dipstickhandle is CNC machined,and if you look closer,which is a thing that youshould do with this car,you notice that every singlebolt has been convertedfrom traditional hexpattern to Allen head,complimented by fancy dress washers.This trend continuesthroughout the entire carincluding a ton of boltsthat you can't even see.That's nuts.Actually it's bolts.(whistle)(exaggerated scream)And the extreme fabricationdoesn't end in the engine bay.Oh boy you thought we were done,we're just getting started.Up, up, up.(distant scream)Let's start at the front.The bumper lint is a one of a kind.It's half JUN aftermarket lipand half OEM Honda.Big Mike fused togetherthe best of both worldsto make something all his own.This intake right here havesome of you big Honda guysscratching your heads, I guarantee it,because it looks stock, right?Well it's not.It feeds the oil coolersitting right behind it.It looks stock because it borrows anglesfrom these smaller intakes on either side.By using elements alreadypresent on the car,this totally unique piecelooks like it shouldabeen there all along.And that's my favorite kind of build.This is one of my favorite cars.(dreamy synth)(static whooshing)Even if you didn't knowanything about Preludes,one look at these fendersand you know that there'ssomething special about this car.The wide body flares give wayto a pressure relief zonebehind the front wheels.This isn't a piece thatyou can go out and buy,it's completely original.They took the stock Prelude fender,laid some clay over it,and added about 35mm ofwidth to each side of the carso the fenders couldcover these big old tires.There isn't another Preludelike this on the planet.But Mike's team didn't gooverboard with the design.It still looks like somethingthat could have come from the factory.A really aggressive factory,where they produce anger.The side skirts are custom too,and reinforce the Motorsportinspiration for this buildboth aesthetically andin function as well.The no-nonsense themecontinues in the trunk.One of my favorite features about this caris the trunk release, which is justa little loop, right here.You pull it,boom, there's the trunk.Now I want you Hondafanboys to look real close.You notice anything different?Hmm, do ya?You stumped?Normally in a Prelude, theindentation for the spare tireis offset to the left.Now this wasn't gonnado for my man Big Mikebecause my man Big Mike gota little thing for symmetry.So he reworked theentire floor of the trunkto put the indentation in the center.Also with the trunk open you can seethe care that was put into placingthe fuel filters and the surge tank.It's like a minimalist piece of art.(dreamy synth music)You can also see how the roll bar and cageare integrated into the chassis.This Prelude be stiff.(dreamy synth music)In the driver's seat it feels familiarbut still very race car.That's because instead of ripping outall the door panels and the dashand replacing them with sheet aluminumlike a lot of dudes do,Big Mike and his team wantedto retain the feeling ofan OEM Honda interior.So what they did was take thestock dash and door panels,fill in all the unnecessaryvents and switch spaces,and cover them in beautiful Alcantara.I wear Alcantara underwear.The gauges have been replacedwith a single AiM digital displayand Rywire control panel sitswhere the radio used to be.With these two components,Big Mike can controlevery function of the carin a real streamlined way.You know when Steve Jobsunveiled the iPhone in 2007,people were stunned that thething only had four buttons.I think he'd like this setup.(dreamy synth music)The shifter in this thing isa work of art all of its own.It's constructed of justa few CNC machined pieces.It looks like somethingout of a rally car,if not a spaceship.Now Big Mike wanted to keep the base openso that people could see the components,and the shifter's set upso you only have to move your handa few inches off the wheel to shift.I don't wanna go downhere, I don't got time.Time me.- Wow.- And now my favorite part of every show.Main, ignition.(mechanical whirring)(engine sputtering)(engine purring)(engine roaring)(chuckling)Oh, it smells like high school.(intense bass music)Getting a close look at this Preludecan be overwhelming at times.It's without a doubt oneof the cleanest buildswe have ever featured on this show.Everywhere you look,there's another perfectly executed detailjust waiting to reveal itself.When Big Mike unveiled this carat the SEMA show in 2016,it started getting attention, a lot of it,and it was selected as a top 10 buildfor the entire show.Do you know how manycars there are at SEMA?A lot!I've been there, I've seen it.At the time the SEMA top 10was dominated by muscle cars and hot rods,but there was Mike withhis one-of-a-kind Honda.(cheerful synth music)An immaculate build like thiscan be a little intimidatingbut that wasn't Big Mike's goal.He says there's nothing in this buildthat's impossible to doin someone's home garage.He set out to build this caras a business card to show what he can do,but also to prove that it doesn't matterwhat kind of car someone starts with,theirs can achieve greatness too.(engine roaring)Big thanks to Big Mike forletting us walk around his carand sharing it with us today.To follow more of his work,check him out on instagram, @TheBigMike,and check out his website,thinkbiggerproject.com.Follow us on instagramand twitter, @DonutMedia,follow me on instagram andtwitter, @JamesPumphrey.Got a lotta new showscoming out this summer,and make sure you don't miss any of them,go ahead and hit that subscribe button.You wanna buy some merch,go to donutmedia.com,join the mailing list toget 10% off your first orderand be the first to know about new drops.If you like this video, hit the bell,ding ding ding.(bell ringing)If you have a special carthat you wanna see featured on this show,let us know in the comments.I love you.(laughs awkwardly)