Is the scent of the leather just phenomenal or what? Everyone who was blown away by it.

 

What do you mean by "engine cover?" Engine cover usually means a big hunk of plastic covering the engine, like on a lot of mid to higher end cars these days. The Fit doesn't have one. Surely you didn't take off the valve cover to do an oil change??

 

its really the CRZ undertray (aka lower engine cover)



put on the winter steelies on today too! just need to put on my winter mats and i'm set for winter.

 

can u post more pics? how's the fitment etc?

 

Added the CRZ cover as well about a week ago, I'm hoping this will keep the engine bay a little nicer as my fit's first winter and has yet to see road salt.

 

It is the same fit as factory leather. They remove the factory cloth and install the leather exactly as it gets installed at the factory so the fit is as near perfect as can be with any leather seat. They fit every bit as good as the factory leather in my Acura. The only noticeable difference is the Katzkins are softer to the touch. I added some photos in my gallery that give more detail https://www.fitfreak.net/forums/memb...-interior.html

I put Katzkins in my Honda Odyssey they looked so good the dealer thought they were factory. He said "I did not know Honda offered two tone leather". I did not tell him any different.

And for the other poster it does have a great new leather smell. It took a couple days for the glue fumes from the door panels to dissipate before the leather smell was able to take over.

 

interesting. what if you go back to stock? or is that impossible now?

 

You could, but I did not have them keep the cloth. I added some closeup pics in my gallery as well.

Unofficial Honda FIT Forums - addis's Album: Katzkin Interior

 

How did you attach it? I have a 2013 and wondered if the undertray for the 2015 would fit our generation Fits. Did you check that out before ordering the CRZ one?

 

I ended up just drilling holes where I thought it would need support and then using some of those body push clips you can buy of amazon. I didn't look at the 2015 one but the CRZ fits perfectly as far as shape goes. And some of the holes line up as well

 

Ordered up some TRM C series wheels with Blizzak WS80 195/55R16 tires to use as my winter set. We don't normally get much snow, but if a repeat of last year, extreme summers (all I normally use) or even my stockers (all-season) just too damn dangerous. Last year receiving over 2 feet over 2 weekend in a row dumpings and spinning my Odyssey on 246 which uses Ecsta4X, decided to play it safe. Also ordered Blizzaks for the Odyssey (or possibly a new Vezel soon (HR-V there)).

And if we don't get much snow, I might just have to go find some and play rally Fit after I get it back from J's with some 12.5:1 rebuild happenings.

 

Katzkin setup looks very high quality, good job!

I love my Clazzios, they make the seats much more comfortable

 

Ah nice, how much Hp or WHp do you expect the engine would make after J's racing rebuild it with 12.5:1 pistons?

 

Been meaning to upgrade the cargo lighting with some LED strips for a while. Took about 30 minutes worth of work but I'm digging the results. Went with high-intensity LEDs. I've cleaned up the wiring since taking this photo. Very pleased with the results & the mod only cost about $25!

 

Honestly I'm not sure, but the 11.0:1 kit on their website says something like 131.3ps on a dynapack and that is without the head tuning that I will also have done. I hope it will at least be 140~145, but in reality I don't care about the numbers, care about how it feels out on circuit.

 

Dont fall into that power hype. Most of that power is from tuning it.

Look at it this way. tune your stock GE setup, mark the power. Throw in 12.5 compression pistons and retune, and you wont see more then maybe 4-5 horsepower and perhaps close to 10tq (higher compression helps with torque a bit more then horsepower)

UNLESS you get a custom plenum style intake manifold assembly and find a way to open the exhaust up a bit at the head, high compression will not help you. a turbo will be a much better solution.

the GD guys will have more ability with all motor setups.

Even better, do a small turbo like a T28 with 12.5:1 compression, run E85 for anti-detonation, and you would have a HELL of a responsive setup. It would run out of breath like factory near redline, but even in 5th gear, it would snap to it pretty fast.

You guys might want to know that even a basic 200whp setup would put our cars in the low 12s even fully loaded (no stripped parts)

Example of power, a fully stock (but tuned) K20A swapped into a EG hatchback with the interior stripped (maybe 70 pounds) can do a 12.1 quarter, as proven by my buddy who tunes in Texas in Killeen. That is a fairless torqueless setup.

 

Did a little headlight mod last weekend.....

 

Wow! That looks awesome. I love the halo DTRLs. I wish I had the skill to do something like this, but it is way out of my depth.

Awesome!!

 

This was prob the easiest retro I have done. Almost no cutting needed.....

 

nice job! do u have halos back there? i don't see a full circle. its like 3/4ths.