e-bay twin turbo update
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The seller had already mentioned about something had to be milled on the flanged to make it fit. That right there should be enough to make you run away. (That tells me that he tried to install it) Which is probably why he is selling it. I bet you he bought it off Ebay, and saw what a POS it is, and is trying to pawn it off on a member here. What a guy.
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Oh man. Two words: fitment issues.
My guess is this ends up the same as those eBay LT headers. Whatever you saved on the kit, you pay for in extra labor/fabrication to make it work right. Not to mention the likelihood of the turbos being complete junk.
My guess is this ends up the same as those eBay LT headers. Whatever you saved on the kit, you pay for in extra labor/fabrication to make it work right. Not to mention the likelihood of the turbos being complete junk.
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The "second chance offer" IS the scam. If you reply to it, they get the deal to go outside of ebay and paypal. Usually the scam is.. they send you the second chance offer with a hyperlink in the email. You click on it and it goes to a site that LOOKS exactly like ebay. When you log on, they have your username/password. You "buy it now" and they instruct you that it's covered by "Square Trade" with another fake page and then there's a multitude of ways they get you to pay... even to the point of leading you to a fake paypal page.. so when you log in, they get your name/password for that too. Then they have free access to your money/cards.. the log in and change your password so you can't log in.. and, well you get the rest.... 
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I bet if you tried to live w/o any chinese products in your house...you would have nothing left inside of it....lol i guess you can thank "them" some other time for that.
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From: http://www.mphparts.com 800-364-1975
They must have gotten better then. There were several in C5-Tech/Gen (including Mike Norris) several months ago complaining about fitment issues. And IMHO, getting LT headers to fit right inside the C5 is *significantly* easier than trying to get a turbo kit to fit right. There's just a lot more complexity and places for things to go wrong. So even if the LT headers are fitting properly now I'd still bank on fitment issues with an eBay TT kit.