are they the same? if not what is the difference?
this has been gone over and over and over. do a search next time.
the one's on ebay are typically everything from rejects to good cores, they don't throw any away.
stinger has a warranty.
I have no idea how long this will last.
Buy from stinger. Trust me. I learned the hard way.
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Support the company that put the hard work into designing the products, With all the offshore knockoff junk out there it's way too easy to get caught up in the price game but in the long run quality parts cost less. The only offshore junk I run are Eagle and Scat and that's because they're American companies that have foundries in China and have 100% QC over their products.
A friend got a knockoff stainless top mount turbo header for his SR20 and everything about it sucks.. we had to enlarge the header flange mount holes because they didnt line up right, its almost impossible to get to the wastegate mount bolts,the 2 inside turbo mount bolts are damn near impossible to get to, its cracked, and its just complete junk... Long story short, buy quality, buy American and save yourself headaches.
Nate Sanders
88 notch, fabbed log, awic, essy2277, megasquirt, innovate lc1, fabbed 3"downpipe to passenger sidepipe: still not running..
I unfortunately when the cheap way and bought the ebay stock mount stainless header.
Couldn't even get it to bolt up...
Got me a '88 Vert to swap
I had that same experience only the header to turbo flange was warped as well. Took about 10 hours of grinding, filing, drilling, etc. to even get it to look sort of right. Once on it works good though.
...and stainless is an terrible material to work with...
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Quote:Originally posted by bw_krupp:
I had that same experience only the header to turbo flange was warped as well. Took about 10 hours of grinding, filing, drilling, etc. to even get it to look sort of right. Once on it works good though.
That sucks man!
I built my own with about half the cash and about three times the time.
My Header
edit: Nevermind I just remembered the ebay knockoffs are less than 200. I was into it about $150.
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MII Front Suspension, 4-Link Rear, 8.8, 5.0 V8 (Formerly 2.3T )
88 Ranger 2wd RB20DET (Formerly 2.3T, sold)
I bought a tubular centermount from XS-Power a couple of years ago ...
I made it through the first year wiyhout a lot of issue (although I had boost control issues with my combo) ...
I added a big external gate and all was great to start this season, made it to just around the begiining of July, then the cracking started. I have had it welded more times than I care to count since then ... I suspect there is now as much 309 tig wire in it as there was original header.
I learned my lesson and will never use another tubular header like these.
84 Capri RS Turbo
1/8th 6.29@110, 1/4 - 9.87@137