With over 10 years of experience in the automotive import aftermarket industry, A Spec has been at the forefront of developing new products for new and upcoming platforms such as the new Honda Fit. Located in the heart of Southern California, we are official distributors for many high end Japanese aftermarket products from manufacturers such as Volk Racing, Work Wheels, Bride, ARC, Endless etc. as well as other high end non-Japanese aftermarket products such as Recaro, Nardi, Personal etc. Our tuning philosophy is toward the true heart of performance. We tend to focus on those parts that provide an overall performance increase to whatever vehicle you drive.
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A Spec Products
With over 10 years of expereince in the automotive import aftermarket industry, A Spec has been at the forefront of developing new products for new and upcoming platforms such as the new Honda Fit. Located in the heart of Southern California, we are official distrubutors for many high end Japanese aftermarket products from manufacturers such as Volk Racing, Work Wheels, Bride, ARC, Endless etc. as well as other high end non-Japanese aftermarket products such as Recaro, Nardi, Personal etc.
Our tuning philosophy is toward the true heart of performance. We tend to focus on those parts that provide an overall performance increase to whatever vehicle you drive.
This drive for performance is what lead us to the development of our A Spec Cold Air Intake.
A Spec Cold-air Intake Manual Transmission Only Computer Rendering
Raw Prototype Mock-up
Highlights on Cold-air Intake
For Manual Transmission model ONLY
2.75" aluminum pipe,
Mandrel-bent
Power coated in Black
Retains all factory vaccum hose and sensor connection
Easy bolt on, installed in 15 mins with common hand tools
Washable high flow cone filter
No "CEL" Check Engine Check
Max. hp gain 5.17hp at 4400rpm (intake alone)
Max. hp 97.95hp Max Torque 94.34 lb/ft
DYNO Chart OEM Intake VS. A Spec Cold-air Intake FOR Axle-back Exhaust please Visit: A Spec Axle-back Exhaust
A Spec Cold-air Intake / Axle-back Exhaust
Highlights on both Cold-air Intake and Axle-back Exhaust
Max. HP and Torque Gain over stock (with both intake and exhaust installed) is 8.92hp/10.4lb/ft.
Both intake and Exhaust has tremendous gain over stock even at below 3000 rpm, you have no loss on power or torque.
Biggest gain at mid range (4500rpm) which is useable for freeway driving and acceleration.
Fix the power drop problem at around 3400rpm.
Easy bolt on installation, no "Check Engine Light."
Sharpen throttle response.
Dyno Chart OEM Intake / Exhaust VS. A Spec Cold-air Intake / Axle-back Exhaust
Overall DYNO (OEM Fit / A Spec Cold-air Intake / A Spec Axle-back Exhaust / Both A Spec Cold-air Intake & Axle-back exhaust)
Tuan, do you know the measurements on the filter? I got one of the intakes/exhaust from you Friday (Super easy install, perfect fit, happy so far!) but with the filter hanging so low, I'm going to see about getting a water repellant outerwear filter for it. So instead of pulling it off, do you know the height and upper and lower diameters of the filter? thanks!
The filter is probably too low because its not pushed onto the intake pipe enough. Slide it upward but dont push it too far or the car wont get any air.
any sort of bypass valve for it. I've always been shaky about getting a cai, especially since my friend just locked his engine up because of it. i haven't found a shortram intake for the fit yet (aside from the way too expensive carbon fiber one)
The only way for a car to locked up from a CAI, is if the Filter is Submerged in water. Now in order to do that, you have to be like in 1.5 ~ 2 feet of water, by then your interior would flooded in water. You can get a Bypass valve from any company (like AEM would have to cut like about an inch from intake piping), but even then you still still suck up mist of water.
Really to solve that probly you have you a few choices!
1- you can just avoid water, or driving in the rain (if you have another car)
2- you can buy our CAI, and cut it shorter, and slap the intake on. (lose a few HP cuz of the hot air hitting the intake)
3- or remove the CAI period, if it rain. (my kit is literally like 5 mins install)
I just installed mine and it works great. Solid design and kit includes all the hardware. I may shorten the pipe or make a splash sheild at the bottom.
Other than that I think it's a great buy.
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07 Fit Sport 5M Blk
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"2- you can buy our CAI, and cut it shorter, and slap the intake on. (lose a few HP cuz of the hot air hitting the intake)"
Well, I know the air isn't as cold, but it gets to the engine faster, wouldn't that just shift the power curve down some?
Either way, i'm still not too sure about the cai. Any plans on releasing a short ram?
No plans for a short ram yet. I can look into it, it will bring some HP down a bit, but still better then a stock intake, it will free a lot for air flow cuz of the cone. You'll still gain power, but not as much as if it was cold air.
but if you like i can CUT it shorter for you, its not hard at all. It wont rust cuz its full alum. Charge you the same for it.
That sounds good.. when I scrape up the money to buy the exhaust, i'll get the short ram with it too.. where will you cut it? I was looking at the picture, and I wasn't really quite sure where the best point would be.
So is there any chance...ANY chance at all of having any kind of a problem with this unit and water? Obviously driving through a foot of water isn't something I'm going to do...however it does rain quite frequently here in Missouri and I don't plan on taking it off every time it rains. I've only ever heard of people having a problem if they run through a lot of standing water, but if picking up mist/spray will cause a problem too, then I'll have to re-consider.
sorry for the lame questions, but I don't know a lot about all this and don't want to take any chances with the engine. My only engine upgrades would be a CAI and exhaust anyway.
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ASpec Cold Air Intake
ASpec Axle-Back Exhaust (burnt tip)
17" Raze R74's in Bronze on Kuhmo Ecstas (205/40/17)
HID's 6000K headlights and 3000K fogs
N1 Concepts LED tails - clear/red
Tein Basic Coilovers (waiting to go on car)
So is there any chance...ANY chance at all of having any kind of a problem with this unit and water? Obviously driving through a foot of water isn't something I'm going to do...however it does rain quite frequently here in Missouri and I don't plan on taking it off every time it rains. I've only ever heard of people having a problem if they run through a lot of standing water, but if picking up mist/spray will cause a problem too, then I'll have to re-consider.
sorry for the lame questions, but I don't know a lot about all this and don't want to take any chances with the engine. My only engine upgrades would be a CAI and exhaust anyway.
I believe all intakes will pick up mist and spray, but not 100% sure. You pretty much narrowed yourself down to a K&N Drop'in Filter. Anything like cold air, short ram, or Arc box intakes will suck up a little water or close to no water at all. But to be safe I think you should be a K&N Drop in filter, you wont get max HP, but it will increase it up a lil.
Dont worry about the lame questions and such, you got to be 100% sure you want the intake, its a new car, and you wanna keep it new and fresh.
What you can do is. Put it on summer times, and take it off in winter.
haha.
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