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Originally Posted by SkullWorks
I for one have never been impressed with the "quality" of JDM product manufacturers, which is funny because the JDM cars we all lust over and the japanese cars we all drive, are stuffed full of quality and value.
You crawl around under enough cars and see enough exhausts and you come to EXPECT this from HKS, Greddy, Invidia, RSR...doesn't much matter, I have had my RS-R Exmag on 4 different S13's from Stock SOHC KA24E, to High comp KA24DE, my Daily driven SR20det, and now on my VET powered Race car, I have had it repaired numerous times, always at a new failure point.
you are (largely) buying an image with exhausts systems...quality doesn't come standard
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If you lump all the JDM companies into one category then of course you're not going think of any of them in a positive way. Both US and Japan have high and low quality stuff. In both cases the high quality stuff comes at a high price obviously. You have to factor in the exchange rate, shipping, etc as well for the Japanese stuff.
Even good brands like Perrin have issues as well.