the listing looks good..the picture is complete... product descriptions are good... but the cost is just too good to be true... they're still making good money on the kit so corners were cut somewhere. i can't imagine that much of the materials are of good quality.
it'd be a cool experiment and it might work, but i'd just wait until you could get a reputable kit. but hey, depending on how adventurous you are and if you have a back up car, it'd be a fun project

 

i'm about to buy an ebay off a guy on craigslist, but i'm just going to use it for the intercooler and charge pipes, those pieces should be decent right?

 

yea theyre fine, may need some custom fabbing for the piping to fit but itll work.

 

How did he blow the motor a few days later? Too much boost?

 

No please go and buy one of those kits. PLEASE. that way we get to say told you so. hhahaa

 

i'll be getting a custom downpipe and i guess a new oil line kit with this kit, most likely either a greddy or synapse BOV, and an OBD2 to OBD1 harness and a new ECU(not sure what kind though). is that pretty much all i need to run ~180whp on an otherwise stock D16Y7 with 60K miles on it?

 

did you do a compression test?i wouldnt even buy a kit if your engine fails a compression test. Also, i would buy a new oil line kit, probably from stealthmodeperformance but the ebay bov's are actually not TOO terribly bad and do their job. I have a synapse bov and love it. Also, get the welds reinforced on the manifold, make sure to clock the turbo (big mistake most people dont do) get new gaskets (OEM ones) Theres a lot more i could go on about but im tired

 

i just got on of these today from a guy on craigslist for $320. are the wastegates and bovs these come with any good? it didn't come with a manifold and i probably won't be using the turbo

 

the bov is alright, not the best thing out there but itll do. I would replace the w/g and the t urbo

 

yeah i'm going to try and get jpnolan's garrett turbo and manifold he has in the forsale thread