Cheap Greddy elbow copies

Fats · February 21, 2013, 07:58:17 PM

Anyone had any experiences with theses cheap greddy elbow copies?? There on eBay pretty cheap just wondering if there worth a look

Cheers

boosted · February 21, 2013, 08:15:44 PM

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....

Grant Monkhouse · February 21, 2013, 08:27:41 PM

Do you mean the metal ones? If so they\'re fine.

Fats · February 21, 2013, 08:39:39 PM

Yes mate the metal ones

boosted · February 21, 2013, 08:50:29 PM

it might melt....lol

Fats · February 21, 2013, 09:06:47 PM

Christ!! They made from chocolate then lol

Grant Monkhouse · February 21, 2013, 09:21:42 PM

Ha, I bought one ages ago, test fitted it on my fd at the time, no problems.

mpk490p · February 21, 2013, 09:29:13 PM

seen feed ones for Â£70 are they that much cheaper?

The dutchman · February 21, 2013, 09:58:35 PM

The most on ebay are the japspeed elbows i think.
Good stuff right?

Grizzly · February 21, 2013, 10:23:23 PM

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.

nadz · February 21, 2013, 11:00:04 PM

You can get a used greddy one for 70-100 pounds worth the slight extra quid then the grands later

Fats · February 21, 2013, 11:08:24 PM

So has anyone actually seen one fail or cause damage?

GregR3 · February 21, 2013, 11:11:28 PM

Japspeed items have got terrible reputation. My friend has a 200SX riddled with issues because of Japspeed parts

Grizzly · February 22, 2013, 12:58:25 AM

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 Â£10 for his new so depends what Budget and Availability really.

Grizzly · February 22, 2013, 12:59:29 AM

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.