DNA Motoring? (hilariously cheap parts on Wish)
 

I was searching Wish for plastic rivet connectors, and it's a great site for crap like that, where you can get a 500 variety pack of something that doesn't matter for $15. I got curious and searched Scion FR-S. In addition to the tacky shirts, keychains, and crap, they have performance parts under the brand DNA Motoring. Cold air intake for $65, header $90, cat-back exhaust system $180. These are new prices including shipping!
What's the deal? Is the intake made of Chinesium and balsa wood, and the header made of spray painted styrofoam? How TF does selling and shipping a cat-back to the other side of the planet for $180 work? Their website is, ah... questionable quality. dnamotoring.com
Anyone actually buy this stuff? Not planning on buying, just curious how the quality is here.

DNA Motoring AKA Speed Daddy on eBay just sells rebranded stuff. I bought 2017 rep taillights for $200 and it turned out to be VLand. It was a steal.

that looks like a knock off HKS header lol

That merge collector though...

:bellyroll:

Don't do it. I recently bought a DNA header for my extremely low budget Honda prelude dirt racecar. Headers are hard to find for the H22A. It was the worse POS I ever come across. Not only did it hit the subframe but the end of the header didn't come within an inch of meeting up with the rest of the exhaust. I contacted the company and they offered to trade the crappy one for a 4-2-1 header. Same story with it not connecting to the rest of the exhaust. The header flange looked like it was plasma cut by a blind chimp and was warped. I did get this one to work after some cutting. Then all of the coating came off within 1 race.

You get what you pay for. My low budget dirt track car designed to race with a bunch of hillbillies is one thing. I would never put one of those on my track car FRS.

https://i.imgur.com/kHYdqof.jpg

Probably a picture of the HKS. I highly doubt that what you see is what you get.


Loads of reviews. Not many of them good.
This was my favourite.

that 90* merge tho. also im still down for a community all ebay/aliexpress/wish autox build

If buying cheap exhaust components have taught me anything.


It can crack/warp. Won't line up correctly or have clearance issues.

I have dealt with buying cheap exhaust parts from them back when I had no money and was excited to do the simple mods on a cheap old car. Was a huge pain in the ass. The parts did look shiny and nice in comparison to my stock old exhaust parts. Fitment was poor, as mentioned above, making installation miserable. And as a final product, I constantly ran into leaks and other issues where I had to get a shop to weld the parts for cheap. Leaks kept emerging and the mid pipe VERY QUICKLY rusting, it was just a never ending cycle of annoyances. Also, keep in mind the sound quality has no work put into it what's so ever, so you may or may not have a pleasing exhaust tone. I've also bought the silly cheap air intakes that cost like $30-50 among other crappy cheap parts. It's all crap, that's about all there is to say. Especially for this car, it's just totally not worth spending so little to get negative gains most likely, and probably create other problems.

You get what you pay for.

I feel like a community pos car build using wish parts would be funny as hell

Hey @Dave-ROR and @Opie we have a challenge for you on one of your rebuilds.

Hmmmm, I like the idea of a dirt track twin....