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Old 09-14-2018, 12:56 AM   #12
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They kind of have good ratings though, not that you can 100% trust online reviews. Is it really $4k+ worth of bent pipes, fittings, and bearings the only thing that differentiates a good kit and a Walmart one?
That seems like it would be sort of easy to cobble together and fix. As far as bad casting, would it just rip apart? I really just can't see how it goes from $150 to $4000.
It would self destruct as soon as you put any real boast through it. It is really just a fancy version of this: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Car-...822332556.html

It looks the part of a real turbo but that is where it ends. It took the name brand expert engineers a couple of years to develop a proper turbo for these cars do you really think that you can just grab an off the shelf "universal" one and have it work properly? Have all the reputable vendors been ripping everybody off all this time?
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