I had my eyes on BeatRush's throttle body spacer, and in the spirit of being cheap.... I found something similar, and less expensive:


"savanini" ... for us poor people



it does look pretty



"you get what you pay for" ran through my mind, when attempting to do the install .... they include hardware that is way too long for gk5's. my guess is, its because the tb spacer is also for civics. I'll be re attempting this install in a few days, and after a visit to a local hardware store ... smh

 

for da horns, just make a bracket and turn it facing downward.

 

for da long screws, just cut it = FREE.

dogdamn u said ure cheap. use ur head mang. when i was a kid i was so faking poor i used my head all da time to improvise. saved me a bunch of money.


dese days im just too lazy.. i just pay.

 

Did you upgrade from the stock horns?

I went with Supertones because I had a set laying around in the garage (originally planned to use on my motorcycle back in my mc-days). I love the sound of the trumpets too.

 

Were the Supertones a bolt-on or did you have to fab a bracket?

 

So how would you describe the tb spacer change in throttle response? (I was of the impression that these wouldn't work with DI engines)

 

one thing to note is dat the Fit's battery is weak so the tone might change if u hold down the horn too long.. sounds pretty silly when da pitch changes. i installed some air horns off my infiniti on my GE a while back and it sounded great for up to 2 sec, but from dere..

u might be okay with a relay

 

There exists only one bolt/bracket for the OEM horn (which also serves as the ground). I used a bracket with three holes, then mounted each Supertone on either end with a short plate and a bolt and nylon nut. I ran wires from each horn to the same grounded plate, then the horn wire in series to each Supertone. I did not use the included relay for my installation.

As kenchan mentioned, there is a possibility of the pitch changing. I have not had it happen on this set of Supertones, but when I had another set installed on an Odyssey, I held down the horn for over 10 seconds (the other car deserved it). I noticed a pitch-change. It was not permanent, but just something I noticed.

 

good to hear supertones are a good match for da GK.

 

excellent, thanks for the detail and photo, marmaladedad.

 

its free for those who own a tool to cut. what about for the poor folks, who cant afford a dremel?

lol, all jokes aside .... I do own a dremel, I just dont know where it is. I'm in the process of moving, and its in 1 of my many moving boxes.... and I'm too lazy to dig for it =\

correct, I found a bunch of others going with the college hills "sport" horns, which comes out to like $30 after s&h. I'm a fan of the Hella brand, and I've never heard of that brand that college hills honda sells (osun), so going with hella for $20 was a no brainer

I was not ready for the sheer size of the hella trumpets, its big enough to hit the radiator and big enough to make rotation of the opening to face downward .... a challenge

once installed, i'll give a review. my prediction is.... it wont make a diff for crap. if anything .... it may move the power band where one area improves, but another area will suffer

(I did it for the engine bay bling, not expecting huge gains)

Herb, mind sharing more pics of the Hella SuperTones install? I happen to have a set laying around .... I'm kicking around the idea of returning the Trumpet's and whipping out my SuperTones (if I can find it in my garage/moving boxes)

I also have a harness/install kit I can use with the SuperTones as well, my only worry about it all is, if the wires are long enough, to reach the battery. As the oem horns are FAR on the passenger side headlight and mounted low, and the oem battery location is FAR on the opposite side near the drivers side fender

 

Im jealous, I never pass 300mi on a single tank and around 33-34mi combined city and highway,i have 6speed also

 

...what's your driving style like? That sounds ridiculously low.

 

if I do all city driving, and romp on the pedal hard (ie while I am IN vegas and roaming about the city), I can easily tank my #s and get into the low 30s as well

 

[QUOTE=bdcheung;1406200]...what's your driving style like? That sounds ridiculously low.[/QUOT
I live in Florida so the road are flat, and ac is always on
I tend to shift around 3000 and do lots of gear skipping try to keep the rpm low, never push it, basic mods like intake exhaust, lowered and 8in wide wheels

 

lol 8" wide wheels on a Fit.

Unless you're filling at like a 1/4 tank, you should always see 300 miles easily. How many gallons do you put in the thing?

 

8.2-8.6 gallons untill I hear a nozzle click, the best I got is a little over 300mi with no bar left on the gas gauge. Every fill up calculated to 34.6mpg

 

get rid of the 8” boat anchors maybe? my Golf-R runs 8” width wheels (19”). ~350hp at da crank awd and 31mpg. and i don’t skip gears. u got serious problems.


evil-lol’ed @ too lazy to find dremel. i can understand.

 

$365 for a ktuner v1.2..... yall better hurry

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F25 3759429455

 

more pics of the hella trumpets, this time, compared to the oems. as you guys will find out, the hella's are THICK









the oem harness being so short, reallyi makes the install unpleasant. it would appear, its not as plug&play as expected, and may required some fancy custom brackets in order to make it fit and rotate to the proper direction (with the opening of the trumpet, facing downward). at this rate, these may seriously come off and I will just go with the Hella SuperTones instead