Honda Fit Turbo Charged

Honda Fit Turbo Charged

These japanese shushi cars are really formidable in terms of how they position themselves in the market with their colleteral efforts in car technologies. This is the first time I have ever tuned a MY09 Honda Fit. Yes, first time seriously. Well, to be fair, in the past, we've tuned Honda Fits before which are also Turbo charged, but the 2009 Fits are slightly different in terms of technology.

What we have learnt in the past, in the New misubishi lancer 1.5 Ex, we see it again in this Honda Fit. Amazing! The aggressive sharing of technology among manufacturers shows a relentless force of how they feel about competition not only among themselves but, more interestingly, against the european and korean counterparts.

Everytime sam say this is gonna be a piece of cake, "... we can go cycling after a quick tuning session...", everytime he says something to this extent, something of the opposite effect occurs!

So, in this story, we have tuned the car till 2am. Its not that we didnt know how to do it, its more like because we setup the ECU for the older version of Fit and discovered it doesnt work. And the dianostics shows great amount of similarity to that seen in the Lancer Ex. How I wished we knew its like the Ex, maybe if Sam didnt say anything in the first place, we might still be fortunate enough to go cycling early. Hokkien say, " Suay chui la"

Now, what we have in this ride, a Turbo which spools its max boost at around 3800 rpm, a CVT gearbox, Emanage ultimate piggyback ecu, Turbo wastegate and turbo boost controller. Yup, very simple and straight forward setup.

Tuning is as per the latest technology vehicles and what we have is a car that is totally fun and keeps us smiling all the way! Idling is as per stock, exhaust is stock volume as not to attract the wrong attention and everything else exterior is basically stock.

With the turbo responsive, the car picks up off traffic like the breeze! The effortless cruising and overtaking power. While sam was checking the car, he had the opportunity to try with a BMW 7 series! Off traffic, Honda Fit sprints forward! With the turbo carefully selected to spool together with the CVT gearbox, this sporty looking Honda Fit pulls away from the 7 series with ease. Of course, at higher speed like 200 kph, I would expect the 7 series to catch up and win the Fit at exuberant speed. For now at least, it is traffic to traffic and Fit is consistently ahead. A chance to try with a scrambler? Fit has the ability to maintain behind the bike but not able to overtake it. Well, in my opinion, that gonna keep the owner very happy with such acceleration and power.

Because this is a CVT transmission, we have not much option but to cap the car's bhp and torque. Sam wanted to increase the power of course, this is to my objection. Lets just be contented with this for now, and in future, we can consider forging the internals for a little bit more power. Thats about how much it can go I guess. CVT conversion? Oh, after driving manual tranny for years now, CVT for me would be a much welcome relief!

Sam reminded me to note down what I did in this ride, but, I told him, "...wierd cars are rare, and I remember them well enough...". He gave me the half baked pissed off look, a little insulted and salty. I like! I know of people who tried tuning this ride and the results is horrendous. Nevertheless, I would rate this ride as difficult, together with Doctor's MX-5 turbo and Jia xiong's lancer ex.

Overall, I enjoy myself throughly but the late nights took a toll on me and early bedtimes recently is very much needed. Could this possibly the very first TCed MY09 Fit around? We'll just wait and see, till then, lets be patient.

Till then...
Stay safe and Happy driving