09/30/2026
WEKFEST LA | EK9 DEBUT RECAP
🏆: Best Honda of the Festival
This was my first Wekfest and the first show my car has been entered since HIN LB ‘00 where my turbocharged ‘98 Prelude was in the Atomic Performance booth. I want to thank the entire Wekfest team and judges for choosing my car for such an important award. With the incredible level of Hondas represented in LA, I am extremely grateful and honored to have been selected 🙏
The past 3+ years of this build have been quite the roller coaster, especially integrating a nostalgic Honda build into my work and family life. There were many ups and downs, but once the dust settles, nothing makes me feel the way this EK9 does in its “finished” and functional state. To everyone involved in this build - I can’t thank you enough for your time, talent, and inspiration in helping me build my nostalgic dream car.
Special thank you Kenji at Greddy for executing the part of the build that was most important to me, tying a nostalgia-inspired race engine into a Spoon build based on a time capsule condition EK9, and make everything flow and perform so perfectly. Who knew that paint correcting some of the nicest JDM hero cars would inspire this build 😜
Wekfest has consistently raised the bar in terms of car quality, and I am glad that this was the event to debut my EK9. The team at Wekfest have been supportive of my build and this process since the beginning, and I honestly can’t thank them enough for their support. Lastly, thank you to the Gyeon team for really pushing me outside my comfort zone with the YouTube content and the final push to enter this show 🍻