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Originally Posted by FRSBRZGT86FAN
This is a typical ebay turbo special from DNA motoring: http://dnamotoring.com/web/
This type of $100-$600 turbo specials you find on amazon, eBay, or now walmart are super well known for having sketchy wastegates that don't let you control boost properly. Seen plenty of these at my friends shop that require quite a LOT of modification and work just to get them to work right, and after that they last maybe a 12-18 months in racing scenarios before something blows or gets stuck blowing the motor as well. |
This type unit was used far too often by guys on the Mitsu forum that thought they could turn their base Lancer into an EVO for a couple of hundred bucks. Most ended up spending at least another $2k just to get them working at all. The majority of the kits required some sort of custom adapter to be made just to attach the to the exhaust. Since there were no tunes for them that all had to be done as custom and that added another $500 to $1K. Just getting more air into the engine means nothing if the engine can't be tuned to use it. Of the few that were willing to go far enough to get them to work at least 90% blew it up within a year. As you said many took their engines with it. I got to look at one failed one in person and the manufacturing was so bad that there was not a hope in hell that it was ever intended to last. There wasn't even any way for it to receive oil and the castings looked like they had been poured in Play-doh.
If people want to be able to say "hey look at my turbo" or "I bought a kit but just haven't put it in yet" this is a great buy but if you want any sort of actual performance and reliability skip it and buy the real thing from a reputable vendor.