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SMOKEDYA

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What do you guy's think of this kit? I know nothing about turbos so would this be a good or decent kit for starters? http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Must...330038018273QQihZ014QQitemZ330038018273QQrdZ1 peace




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john dude, just post it in the same post as last and all i can say is its too good to be true. I garauntee that no one on thsi site will tell you its a good deal!
 
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bentley429

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I saw that listing and afew others that the seller has. They seem REALLY cheap to me, to cheap honestly. Looking at the guys feedback its not to good, some junk parts, missing stuff, slow shipping....
 

smokin91'

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Hes a power seller, plus his feedback is 98.5% which is good, you cant please EVERYONE and some ebayers love to leave neg. feedback to be dicks. I just looked through the first 5 pages of his feedback, and all the negative feedbacks are from users with less then 10 feedback with 90% of them having less then 5 feedbacks, one guys feedback is -1.

I say go for it and get some nice new shiny parts instead of used ****, then come back here and I can say "I told ya so". Its not like hes gonna send you rusty headers and some turbos he pulled out of a lake. You will get what you see. WYSIWYG!
 

5literttop

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I would not buy them.
 

Cwalk

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Forget about the quality of the turbo's. Turbo's can be rebuilt reasonably priced. The question is do the manifolds clear everything. And the fitment of the cold side also. But for a turbo kit. Regardless of the turbo's it is cheap. You would still be saving a lot of money if the manifolds dont have any fitting issues.
 

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Cwalk said:
Forget about the quality of the turbo's. Turbo's can be rebuilt reasonably priced. The question is do the manifolds clear everything. And the fitment of the cold side also. But for a turbo kit. Regardless of the turbo's it is cheap. You would still be saving a lot of money if the manifolds dont have any fitting issues.
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Turbo's can sometimes be rebuilt for a reasonable price. When they are the kind that catastrophically fail however…it's usually a total loss. Even if the bearings take a crap the rebuild costs are typically close to $200 a pop including re-balancing the turbine/compressor wheels.

If your buying with the expectation of replacing the turbos…I'd just buy a reasonably priced set of headers from B&G turbo's or Ponydown. You'll be building the kit yourself anyways…and they use designs that are proven to work.
 

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True, but with this kit. Let's say you dont have to replace the turbos. It's not a bad deal(if the manifolds dont have any fitment issues). Plus it comes with your oil lines and all that. The cheapest kit I have seen was a single kit for $2,990.00. So even if you had to replace the turbo's. You can get Garrett turbo's reasonably priced. And instead of having a single turbo have a twin. I would like to hear from someone who has actually bought the kit and tried it out.
 

millhouse

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Cwalk said:
True, but with this kit. Let's say you dont have to replace the turbos. It's not a bad deal(if the manifolds dont have any fitment issues). Plus it comes with your oil lines and all that. The cheapest kit I have seen was a single kit for $2,990.00. So even if you had to replace the turbo's. You can get Garrett turbo's reasonably priced. And instead of having a single turbo have a twin. I would like to hear from someone who has actually bought the kit and tried it out.
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The link to the above comes with just the headers, turbo's, gaskets and bolts. Hell…those gaskets will blow out in short order, so they are basically worthless. I don’t see any oil lines whatsoever…and even if it did you can piece those together for relatively cheap.

This is no kit. You still would need to fabricate the entire hot and cold side piping. There is far more money and fabrication to be spent…make no mistake about it.

Also, I might add that garret turbo's are not by any means cheap. Considering used turbocoupe turbo's in good condition go for $150-$200 a pop used. If your looking for new…that jumps quickly up to $500+ for any garret/air-research turbo in that size range.
 

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go to turbomustangs.com!!!!!!!!!
 

Cwalk

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My bad I was confusing it with this one:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Ford...tegoryZ33742QQihZ005QQitemZ150045267403QQrdZ1

Which everyone slams and says not to buy. But they dont personally know of anyone who got burned with this kit.
 

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bump!!!!!!!!
 
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