Anyone had any experiences with theses cheap greddy elbow copies?? There on eBay pretty cheap just wondering if there worth a look
Cheers
hot place under there.....if it goes brittle with the heat and breaks up....enters your plenum then your engine....eek not worth the risk imho....
Do you mean the metal ones? If so they\'re fine.
Yes mate the metal ones
it might melt....lol
Christ!! They made from chocolate then lol
Ha, I bought one ages ago, test fitted it on my fd at the time, no problems.
seen feed ones for £70 are they that much cheaper?
The most on ebay are the japspeed elbows i think.
Good stuff right?
Seen one that wasn\'t Flat, so leaked round the TB seal but not too difficult to sort out tbh apart from that there Ok, the finish isn\'t really the same as a Greddy but your paying half as much for it so what do you expect.
You can get a used greddy one for 70-100 pounds worth the slight extra quid then the grands later
So has anyone actually seen one fail or cause damage?
Japspeed items have got terrible reputation. My friend has a 200SX riddled with issues because of Japspeed parts
Quote from: nadz;851441You can get a used greddy one for 70-100 pounds worth the slight extra quid then the grands later
grands later ??? Sorry i don\'t get what you mean? I have seen two used on cars running between 1 bar and 1.4 with no issues. As already said the Problem was poor build Quality rather than bad Alloy etc. If your worried about bits getting sucked in to the Motor look at it this way, there is much more load on the elbow on Boost and if it did break for what ever reason the bits would be pushed out by the Boost pressure.
Depends what sort of Price your talking tbh, i know at least one of the guys i know paid £10 for his new so depends what Budget and Availability really.
Quote from: GregR3;851446Japspeed items have got terrible reputation. My friend has a 200SX riddled with issues because of Japspeed parts
Yup.... Some of the Chinese Junk they sell is really only fit for the bin.
Quote from: Grizzly;851453grands later ??? Sorry i don\'t get what you mean? I have seen two used on cars running between 1 bar and 1.4 with no issues. As already said the Problem was poor build Quality rather than bad Alloy etc. If your worried about bits getting sucked in to the Motor look at it this way, there is much more load on the elbow on Boost and if it did break for what ever reason the bits would be pushed out by the Boost pressure.
Depends what sort of Price your talking tbh, i know at least one of the guys i know paid £10 for his new so depends what Budget and Availability really.
What I mean by that is sometime the copy products fit ment is not on point and you can use it seal it but them the seal melts and air leaks as this can harm the engine if not known there\'s a leak. That\'s why your better of with the right gear.
Came across this a while back :
http://www.autoteileltd.com/mazda-rx7-fd3s-greddy-trust-compression-tube/
Can\'t seem to add it to basket, maybe they don\'t do them any more, might be worth giving them a shout. I haven\'t bought anything from them before so I can\'t vouch for them.
Quote from: nadz;851455What I mean by that is sometime the copy products fit ment is not on point and you can use it seal it but them the seal melts and air leaks as this can harm the engine if not known there\'s a leak. That\'s why your better of with the right gear.
Isn\'t the o ring seal onthe throttle body anyway? If the surface is t flat it\'s not hard to make it flat. Plus the only thing you will get with no e sealed surface is a boost like as previously mentioned. You would discover this quickly as you wouldn\'t be making power
Quote from: Grant Monkhouse;851462Isn\'t the o ring seal onthe throttle body anyway? If the surface is t flat it\'s not hard to make it flat. Plus the only thing you will get with no e sealed surface is a boost like as previously mentioned. You would discover this quickly as you wouldn\'t be making power
hmm i see everyone has there own opinions to things. im saying due to me having bad experience in the past with copy items never worked out right.
Not saying i\'d use things like Chinese Copy Bosch 044 fuel pump or Chinese copy Aeromotive A1000 fuel Reg but if you are happy to do some final finishing the elbow is not that bad. TBH if i wanted top of the line Elbow i\'d buy a Feed or HKS one anyway :)
I have 1 of those elbows, have had it on for 2 years with no problems at all, would def recomend this part
just bought one (30pounds), fitment was perfect.. no problems what so ever! cant see the problem why people talk so negative about them.. same material but doesnt have the (feed or greddy on it..)
I can imagine that fitment can be off with a few of them but this can be fixed very easyily!!
would recommend!! :)
Quote from: eplusz;854197just bought one (30pounds), fitment was perfect.. no problems what so ever! cant see the problem why people talk so negative about them.. same material but doesnt have the (feed or greddy on it..)
I can imagine that fitment can be off with a few of them but this can be fixed very easyily!!
would recommend!! :)
Nice one, where did you get it from if you don\'t mind me asking