By Rikdaddy/ Photography by Henry Z. Dekuyper
With the biggest show of the year just around the corner and what seemed like a billion commitments to fulfill, we had little time to crank out our Fit. Duke's fabbed up an insane rollcage, Hasport dropped in the ERL-built K20 motor, and the body shop had fitted (no pun intended) the Carbon Creations kit and implemented a crazy airbrush scheme. We're good to go, right? Wrong. Even after all of our sponsors did so much work on the Fit, we were still only about 25-percent ready for SEMA. And in terms of making it fully functional and race-prepped, we were even further than that. To make things worse, we didn't have a facility to work in. Luckily, Andy Yu was generous enough to let us "borrow" some space from the Zero 1000 USA warehouse. When Steve Wang from bBist dropped the car off at Zero 1000 for us, it was basically a painted shell, a motor and a thousand boxes of parts from HKS, Nitrous Express, Volk Racing, Koyo, Tein and hell...the list goes on and on.
Hide And Seek
In case you get really bored, we figure we'd bring you back to your childhood days of reading Highlights. Go through this intro picture and see how many of the following items you can find. Circle these items, tear out the page and send it along with a self-addressed stamped envelope to Super Street c/o Hissy Fit, 6420 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90048. The first 150 entries will get an NX sticker courtesy of Nitrous Express. (www.nitrousexpress.com)
01 Koyo radiator box
02 Takata harness boxes
03 Yamz
04 Nitrous Express boxes
05 Cherry picker
06 Air compressor
07 Big electric fan
08 S2000 exhaust
09 Zero 1000 banner
10 White hood
11 Tein coilover box
12 Floor jack
13 Rikdaddy
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The ERL-built K20 motor sits nicely inside the engine bay with the Hasport mount kit. Than
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Yamz installs the Carbon Creation side skirts while Leigh translates what's going on to a
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Jonny's only work out of the year involved assembling the steering wheel and quick-release
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Through the crazy rollcage you can see Rikdaddy installing the coilovers Tein stole back f
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No shifter means no shifting. Caterade takes care of that problem by hooking up the shift
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If you like spaghetti, ramen, chow mein or any type of noodles, you'll love the miles of h
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"No, Yamz, we're not done yet. If you get back to work, we'll mix up a martini for you."
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Yamz can make body kits out of cardboard if you want. Just kidding. He's mocking up a temp
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Finding a place to mount the Aeromotive fuel pump and filter was a task that only Wonger w
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"Yo, Yamz, why are we working on this Fit when we could just jack Andy's Murcielago and fi
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Wong Dong Silver looks for a place to tuck away the stainless steel nitrous line as he run
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It's amazing what Yamz can do with a sheet of carbon fiber, two martinis, a Roto Zip and a
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BFGoodrich
1 Parkway S.
P.O. Box 19001
Greenville
SC
29602-9001
865-458-5000
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Jaz
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Status
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Hose techniques
1603 Border Ave.
Torrance
CA
90501
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ICB
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ERL
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Tein
N/A
www.tein.com
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Fast Brakes
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BDL
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Nitrous Express
5411 Seymour Hwy.
Wichita Falls
TX
76310
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Honda
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ACL
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Mackin Industries
562-946-6820
www.mackinindustries.com
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Interstate Batteries
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HKS
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ARP
531 Spectrum Circle
Oxnard
CA
93030
805-278-7223
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Zero 1000
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SP Engineering
14829 Proctor Ave.
City of Industry
CA
91746
6-26/-333-5398
www.sp-power.com
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Duke's Fabrication
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bBIST
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Takata
www.takataracingproducts.com
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Aeromotive
Lenexa
KS
9-13/-647-7300
aeromotiveinc.com
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Carbon Creations
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JE Pistons
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Carbonetic
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BASF
800-825-3000
http//www.carizzmacolors.com
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RC Engineering
20807 Higgins Ct.
Torrance
CA
90501
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Brian Crower
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Calico Coatings
Denver
NC
704-483-2202
www.calicocoatings.com
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Wedge Engineering
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Flex-A-Lite
8-00/-851-1610
www.flex-a-lite.com
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Stewart Engines
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Koyo Radiators
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Darton Sleeves
2380 Camino Vida Roble, Suite J & K
Carlsbad
CA
92009
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Hasport
http://www.hasport.com
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