Honda Fit MT (09-14) Cold Air Intake
#38137 from Peter Zekert · No action required · Minutes (2025-06 Fastrack)
Thank you for your letter. The BSAC chose to make this change to the 09-14 MT Honda Fit's spec line for several reasons.
B-Spec's class philosophy is largely based around commercially available parts that are installed onto vehicles without
modifications. While the wording allowing "any manufacturer" of an intake was intended to give competitors multiple options to
purchase an intake from multiple sources, some competitors chose to interpret this language a step beyond that intention and
began building/dyno testing intakes of their own design.
This type of tuning and building of parts is not within the class philosophy of B-Spec. There are numerous categories within the
club available for those who want to test/develop parts for their own vehicles, but B-Spec is not one of them. Having homemade
or "custom" parts installed on vehicles also makes managing BOP more difficult as it creates multiple configurations of the same
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vehicle.
While the BSAC agrees that listing multiple intakes on the same spec line is not the cleanest solution, it was the best middle
ground we could take to walk this rule back to meet class philosophy while not forcing competitors to buy another commercially
available intake if theirs was not approved.
When the BSAC selected the three intakes that landed on the approved list, we selected part numbers that were currently
commercially available at the time of the rule change. Competitors may submit a part # for approval if they have an intake
already installed that is still commercially available that we missed in that process.