Mods, mistakes and the cars nobody should love.
Konig - Behind The Wheel Podcast is car talk from people who have done an engine swap, lived with a heavily modified daily and have views on when a coilover is worth the trouble. Alongside the build advice come openly personal lists: guilty-pleasure cars, cars manufacturers should build, and whether automakers are walking away from enthusiasts.
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Konig - Behind The Wheel Podcast carries the Konig Wheels name, but its conversations go well past wheels into suspension, engines, track days and where the car industry is heading. Its best material comes from ownership. One speaker describes a daily driver at 187,000 miles that already has upgraded sway bars, bigger brakes and new control arms, and defends it on the grounds that an hour and a half of commuting a day ought to be enjoyable. That same conversation turns to coilovers. The case made is blunt: a coilover nobody sets up properly can ride worse than a simple spring-and-shock pairing, and suspension is a tuning job that may need revisiting after a change of wheel or tire size. Stripped interiors and deleted air conditioning come up as choices some owners are starting to regret. A mod-ladder discussion sorts out the order of upgrades for a daily, a weekend car or a dedicated track build. The speakers admit people may expect them, given where they are, to say wheels and tires first, and one of them calls tires one of the most important purchases. Mistakes are treated as part of the hobby. A sheared crankshaft keyway on a stock VG30 became the reason for an RB swap into a Z32, at a time when, by the speaker's account, only two or three people in the country had one. Blowing an engine is described as a gut punch that also opens up possibilities. Alongside the build talk run openly personal lists. In 'These Cars Should’ve Been TERRIBLE… So Why Do We Love Them?', the picks include the Nissan Cube, championed by a self-described diehard Nissan fan, a Sentra with Brembo calipers and the SRT-4. Another conversation wishes for cars manufacturers are not making, weighing the Corvette ZR1X hybrid against a speculative Ford GT40 built around a twin-turbo or supercharged version of the Shelby GT500's 5.2-liter engine. In 'Are automakers killing enthusiast cars?' the target is Audi's newer Q5, S5 and A4, seen as drifting from the brand's enthusiast side, while the 240, Corolla and Celica are held up as proof that enthusiast cars used to be affordable. The Prelude draws pointed remarks in more than one conversation. One episode widens the frame. With GRIDLIFE champion Dewey Dewitt, the talk covers Porsches like the 981, 987 and 997 coming within reach, and a recipe for turning a classic STI into a dependable track car: a safe tune, ethanol, a topped-off tank, 200-treadwear tires and a baffled oil pan. It also separates chasing results in time attack from simply having a good day at the track and driving home. Episodes often end with a direct request for the audience's own lists and hard-learned lessons in the comments, a fitting close for a show built on opinions that invite disagreement.
Made for: Suits a listener who modifies a car, or plans to, and wants opinions from experience on suspension setup, tires, engine swaps and track use. Also suits someone who enjoys nostalgic arguments about Nissans, Porsches and the cars automakers no longer build.
What sets it apart: Its advice leans on cars the speakers have actually lived with, such as a 187,000-mile daily and a Z32 that got an RB swap after a sheared crankshaft keyway, and it keeps asking whether a modification makes a car better to drive. That practical streak sits beside openly personal lists of cars they love despite themselves.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A practical look at balancing mods, tuning, and daily-driver usability.
This episode makes a practical case for keeping a daily driver usable even after the mod list gets long. It moves through lower control arms, forged upper arms, sway bars, bigger brakes, coilovers, and wider tires, while still keeping the focus on a car with 187,000 miles that…
Oddball car affection, grounded in snowstorms, e-brakes, and model-specific enthusiasm.
The episode turns car shame into real affection, with the conversation defending the Nissan Cube, a Sentra with Brembo calipers, the SRT-4, and the PTGT in a way that feels earned rather than theoretical.
A practical review of where a fun track car ends and a modern competition build begins.
The episode starts in familiar enthusiast territory, with Porsche daydreaming that quickly turns into the real cost of making a car survive track use.
A practical garage-talk guide to choosing smarter mods, anchored by a vivid RB-swap story.
The review frames the mod ladder as a practical way to think about building a car around its real use, from daily driver to weekend toy to track-focused project.
A grounded, enthusiast-friendly debate about which performance cars manufacturers could realistically bring back.
The episode makes a practical case out of a familiar enthusiast fantasy: which revived performance cars might still make sense for manufacturers to build.
A hands-on look at street cred, turbo lag, and improvised tuning in street-racing culture.
The street-racing scene of the 90s and early 2000s is framed through a useful split: drag racing built around staying out of sight, and street takeovers built around being seen.
A grounded, casual review of car mods where practicality keeps pushing back against spectacle.
Camera-friendly car mods get a grounded once-over here, with the episode turning on the gap between spectacle and real-world sense. Hood-exit exhausts, turbo Hondas, all-wheel-drive conversions, external wastegates, and pops-and-bangs tuning all come under scrutiny, but the tone…
Car reviews with the fine print left in.
Fast car talk with lived-in opinions.
Car reviews with garage-floor honesty.
Real car testing, plain-spoken buyer advice.
Turbo Lamik discusses his background with Subaru and JDM cars, and how he got into ZF 8HP transmission swaps and controllers.
Two hosts discuss the new Honda Prelude, its specs, pricing, and market reception.
A car enthusiast discusses the balance between daily driving practicality and modifying a car for enjoyment, arguing that life is too short for boring cars.
The hosts discuss vehicles that are objectively flawed but have a unique charm, starting with a love for the Nissan Cube and NX 2000.
Dewey Dewitt and the host examine Gridlife’s sale, contrasting fears of a private-equity takeover with a media company led by automotive insiders.
Konig - Behind The Wheel Podcast examines a logical modification sequence for daily drivers, weekend cars, and project vehicles.
Konig - Behind The Wheel Podcast examines discontinued cars and concepts that could plausibly return, including the Honda S2000, Nissan Silvia, and MazdaSpeed 3.
Konig - Behind The Wheel Podcast examines how Queens, New York and Long Island street racing in the late 1990s and early 2000s differed from modern social-media street takeovers.
Konig - Behind The Wheel Podcast examines car modifications that the hosts dislike but still understand, including non-functional aero, hood-exit exhausts, pops-and-bangs tunes, forged carbon fiber, Lambo doors, and parking poles.
Konig - Behind The Wheel Podcast examines when a modified street car becomes a race car, using full cages, race clutches, plastic windows, bucket seats, and drivability as practical tests.
Konig - Behind The Wheel Podcast examines why people from music, skateboarding, BMX, breaking, and other action-sports backgrounds move into cars.
Konig - Behind The Wheel Podcast examines whether real car meets are disappearing as illegal takeover events damage the reputation of modified-car communities.
Konig - Behind The Wheel Podcast examines why Konig skipped SEMA after roughly 40 years of exhibiting, citing a softer consumer-spending environment and difficult booth ROI.
David Buescher of Buschur Racing describes turning an Eagle Talon bought in November 1989 into a 13.48-second car with three basic modifications.
Konig - Behind The Wheel Podcast examines whether a first or favorite car can become a worst-car experience through unreliable parts, poor repairs, or changing expectations.
Konig - Behind The Wheel Podcast examines whether heavily modified cars can remain usable while owners worry about theft, crashes, police attention, and family comfort.
Konig - Behind The Wheel Podcast examines whether Honda’s new Prelude can justify an expected U.S.
Konig - Behind The Wheel Podcast compares $150,000–$200,000 R34 GTRs with lower-priced 300ZX and 3000 GT VR4 examples, asking whether legacy justifies the gap.
Konig - Behind The Wheel Podcast examines why its car-focused speakers now build vehicles for personal taste rather than speed, trends, or other people's approval.
Konig - Behind The Wheel Podcast examines whether enthusiasts should buy an already modified project car or start with a clean shell.
Konig - Behind The Wheel Podcast compares vehicle inspections in California, New York, Florida, Vermont, Montana, and Oklahoma for modified-car owners.
Scott and Nick interview Justin and Julian from Uniclutch about a modular clutch system designed for modified vehicles and engine-transmission combinations.
Konig - Behind The Wheel Podcast examines how car forums changed from social communities into searchable repositories for technical information.
Konig - Behind The Wheel Podcast examines why American buyers favor SUVs over wagons, using family cargo needs, performance, and market availability as the main explanations.
Konig - Behind The Wheel Podcast features an Acuity Instruments engineer discussing Honda shifters, including the 10th-generation design, swaged spherical bearings, spring rates, and a precision die-cast frame for the 11th-generation model.
Konig - Behind The Wheel Podcast examines whether modifications such as RWB body kits, Nismo parts, GT3 bumpers, and Honda K-series engines increase or reduce vehicle value.
The hosts open with the April Fool's spinner joke and trace import tuning from the mid-90s, when one car like Ron Bergenholz's Integra served as street, track and show car.
Jimmy Broadbent describes moving from an inexpensive MX-5 and PC simulator to YouTube racing videos, real-world competition, and a collection including R32 and R35 GT-Rs.
The hosts critique poor sponsorship proposals and share essential elements for a successful proposal.