The wife is only in the car when I am. She is indifferent to the ride and any car that is not her beloved RX350... She has never driven the car, but said it was fine when I asked her about the ride with the lowering springs. I have not yet had four in the car, but with three it was no problem, compliant ride, no bottoming out.

 

With my coveted front red H emblem on its way (thanks MattVR), and the sound deadening campaign complete, I will attempt to call my Poser Build complete. There is certainly more I could find to do on the car, but a need to refocus my efforts on building Comfort Eagle.

Here is the updated list of my mods:
1) Window Tint - 20% middle of the road tint, good installer
2) Badging - Removed both "Fit" and "Sport" badges, added *mandatory* front and rear JDM red H emblems
3) Intake - AEM cold air intake, looks cool and sounded cool (until I installed the exhaust, now I can't hear it...)
4) Exhaust - Bisimoto Pulse Chamber exhaust (louder inside the car than it is outside)
5) Horns - Replaced embarrassing stock horns with *authoritative* sport horns
6) Springs - 1.5 inch Eibach lowering springs, nice springs, come with new rear bump stops and dust boots
7) Rear Wheel Spacers - 25mm, no rubbing after trimming wheel well liners
8) Audio Upgrades - Awesome, awesome, easy, easy audio upgrades
9) Sound Deadening - Multi-pronged attack to reduce interior noise
10) Rear Wiper Mod - Also mandatory (and free) because everybody else is horizontal
11) Black Lug Nuts - Nice Gorilla Automotive BALL seat security lug nuts, not free
12) Red H Wheel Center Caps - Because if there is an H on the car, it MUST be red
13) Oil Catch Can - Because all the cool kids were doing it, and it may keep those valves cleaner?

I loved the car when I drove it home from the dealership. And after all these mods... If I wasn't already married, I would marry this car. The Fit really is more than the sum of its parts and mods. As I've argued in another thread, it is not a performance car, but with a few mods, it looks like one, sounds like one, and it makes me feel like I am driving one. And it's not just me, others (albeit uninformed others) think it is a performance car also. I get challenged everyday, every commute, all the time; it's kinda funny. It's a very, very fun car (EVEN WITH A CVT!!!!!)

 

I read the first couple pages of your Comfort Eagle thread the other day - wow what a story driving it home.

 

Me "do you want all the badges red"
Wife "no, the front would just look like Rudolph the red nose reindeer!"

so that's a no on the red badges here, lol

 

yes sirrrr

 

 

Im no expert at getting man handled in the rear .... but ... heres a youtube vid I randomly saw the other day:

 

UNFIT rick
UNFIT parent

any relation?

 

Although the video is not every elegant, that's pretty much it. Not breaking the stock emblem, particularly the tabs would be difficult. Also the new badge is held on with adhesive; IMO there's realistically no going back...
No but UnFitRick is also an unfit parent. My 18yo daughter would certainly agree...

 

At the risk of continued ridicule by "real car guys" on this forum and the risk of "getting my lunch money taken" here on my local roads in SOMD, I went ahead and installed a set of generic and inexpensive . I haven't gotten to the fronts yet but here are a few pics of the rears on my very dirty car.

I am quite happy with them, and think they look great and not out of place on the car...

 

looks good, matches your current black/red theme

the local subaru guys should be throwing you peace signs soon.

 

Sure, as they blow by me...

 

I actually really like those. Function over form for me. Did you get the universal fit ones?

 

I consider myself a car guy. Not sure if it's a good thing or not.
But like I said, mud flaps are great, and Rally Armors are even greater.
Two thumbs up from me.

 

How much MPG reduction? lol

 

I bought the same ones a month ago and still figuring out how to install. How did you get yours mounted? I noticed only two pip rivets / screws in the area of the fender liner.

 

Yes, Careful, many consider me to be a car guy, but the standards here on FFn are obviously higher. Thank you for the thumbs up.
Rally Armor quotes a 0.2-0.4mpg reduction per flap, dependent on how far they extend. But much like putting red H's on a Fit, I read that "rally style mud flaps" are good for 3-5hp per set of four, so really it offsets.
Yeah, mounting these flaps is really up to your imagination. I used some stainless steel screws and washers, screwed into some spring nuts, along with some VHB tape.

With the addition of the front red H and the late addition of the mud flaps, I am calling the Poser build complete. I also added some yellow LED fog light bulbs... So here are a few glamour shot of the poser mobile in all its red H'd, rally mud flapped glory...

 

those dont look too bad. nicely executed. i think its the lowered ride and your black wheels that blends it all together.

 

i mean im still not a fan of mudflaps and splash guards in general though on a street car.