dsmornothing
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- Jul 23, 2009
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Ishpeming,
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Well that read just made up my mind on getting a Borg over a Garrett!
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Well the thread made awhile ago was very interesting and very related to myself whom is building a 420A on the side and needing to turbo it. Garrett is not going anywhere near my Motor.
But none of this matters anyway because its just an old thread about some posting written by some person who didnt make any sense at all anyway, brought up by some noob with a neon.
Maybe you could claim the housings are swappable with some machining, but that is about it. You don't have to take an eBay turbo "to the limit" to fail, some of them fail in minutes.
So heres the thing I don't get, I have to use a knockoff turbo that has a high rate of failure and have it take out a build before commenting?
I don't have to have sex with a Somali hooker to know its a bad idea.
You should just refrain from posting on topics like this and save some face. Holy hell.
Basically it sounds like you want to justify your choice in using cheap crap. Maybe the reason they failed is because the people who are foolish enough to buy a cheap knockoff ebay turbo have done the same corner cutting and lack of research throughout the rest of the build?
Logic.. get some.
I see more red dots in your future
Leonthefaded said:I don't know anything about hookers.
Leonthefaded said:]
Can you rebuild, one of those knock off turbos, from "China", Ebay, or wherever the heck they are coming from with very much valid turbocharger rebuild parts?
I could buy a 1200 turbo from retailer or some vendor. Or I could buy a knock off at 1/4 of that vendor/retailers price, then buy a reputable rebuild kit, or take it to somone who rebuilds turbochargers, for another 1/4 the cost of the 1200 dollar named turbocharger. Theoretically spending half of what it costs for that 1200 unit, which is better That the 600 dollar named units on the current market. AND has more reliability then the knock-off units untouched.
If in fact alot of the named turbocharger companies are manufacturing their turbochargers over seas in he same factories as the cheaply named "China" turbos. Then what is the real difference between them? I'm not saying conspiracy, I'm saying common sense tells me, that it would be smart of them to sell failed turbochargers to the lowest bidder on ebay, or to a company in mass who will buy them and sell them off as new, as long as the Garrett stamp isn't on it, instead "TURBOCHARGER" would be stamped on it, and a pretty HTML ebay page in place of the companies website product store. All because it failed in some sort of way in the QAQC process.
You'd have to be foolish to think any turbocharger costs anywhere near 1200-3600 dollars for a single turbocharger. Its common knowledge there is a argue markup. Its common sense that there is a production and shipping cost. Most of these cheaper turbos are sold out of California, maybe because its cheaper to ship from "China" to California then anywhere in the US. The US being one of the number 1 countries with the most consumers buying turbochargers.
Actually that's a Godspeed Project reject turbine housing (blem) that came from a separate eBay auction. This is not the quality of the housing that they actually sell on their turbos....but from what I've found their turbos are not any different than any other ChinaBay special. They just charge more, offer a better warranty, and profit more should you never need to use the warranty.This is a Godspeed turbo