2021 Recap Part 1

Earlier this year I posted my 2020 recap…. Now during the last month of 2023….. I am doing my 2021 recap. Hell yeah, 2 year recaps in 1 year! Things seem to be going by faster and faster as you get older. I’ve been doing this blog for over a decade now, can you believe that. I’ve met s2k people all over the world, with my blog being the common bond, it’s insane. Hang on tight. 2021 was just another year of collecting parts for the car…. Enjoy.

P.S don’t DM me asking me for mechanical questions. I’m not your mechanic.

My Rockers I got back from Alaniz for my Toda Racing Camshafts

If you see Joe, let him know Anthony sent you! They are one of the few people that wanted to attempt this project in the USA, yeah in the USA! I remember back in the day I messaged a bunch of places, but they either gave me a “I don’t want to work on that price” or just didn’t want to work on it. You can read about it here.

Toda cam gears

Of course I had to run this flag. High and pride my friends

When they built my engine, I had them balance all the rods and pistons, you can see some of that balancing here….

Sometimes I look at these picture and I am like WTF did I do here…. Oh yeah I took apart my freshly built engine to WPC EVERYTHING….. Did it work or just I just waste a bunch of money…

Yep, I WPC’ed the crankshaft

And WPC’ed the cylinder walls

And WPC’ed Piston rings, OEM Bearings, etc.

Freshly WPC’ed mains and Thrust Bearings

WPC’ed Rod Bearings

Time to assemble my head

Time to put the Toda Racing Valve Spring tool to test!

WPC’ed Toda Spec B Camshafts, WPC’ed retainers, WPC’ed rocker screw thing, WPC’ed cam caps etc…..

No stone was left not WPC treated…. like the OEM timing gear…in the little bag are the screws that go on the rockers, which I WPC Treated….

Glorious Toda Spec B Camshafts

Yes I even did the front timing chain gear….

Somehow in 2021 I was at Formula S watching them install this rear ASM brace on a car…. I wanna say this is Teddy’s car.

WPC treated the Valves, Toda Racing full tune f20c head with everything ported…..

For my reference when I took it all apart

Of course I needed to go with the Toda Racing Timing Chain

Degreeing it all to make sure everything is good.

You can see the how beautiful this Toda Racing Head is

ASM clutch Slide Guide

WPC’ed F20c Lost Motion Assemblies

Bought a new ratchet from snapon dennis!

Toda Dry sump installed!

Toda Racing F20c Carbon ITBs installed!

Carbon trumpets are amazing!

Going over the valve lash!

I was redoing the bolts on my engine, I really like these flanged alan head bolts

new bolts on the vtec solenoid.

My friend picked up a E30 M3

Let me borrow it.

Oh yeah my civic got stolen in 2021…. They stole my EG out of my parking lot at home, local Police didn’t do anything besides take my report.. I posted it on IG and a buddy said he saw the same car driving up and down the street 10 min away from me! I said fuck it and drove around where my friend said saw it and found the car parked to the side. I called the police and they brought some undercover cops, they just parked near the car waiting for the thieves to get in and drive it away. Unfortunately they never arrived…. So they just told me to take the car and drive it home….. Afterwards the local PD called me and asked how satisfied I was with their service…. WTF bro. I did your job for you.