Word to the wise, DON'T BUY A HALF ASS TURBO KIT!!! I was considering going turbo on my accord and saw this kit on ebay for cheap. It made me think a lot though. Sure its cheap, but i want it to be reliable as possible so i don't have to constantly dump money fixing things in the kit. I don't even trust the kits that they sell online. They look good but some pieces that they display don't look durable as they should be. I would have to see the kit in person, but what shop carries kits in stock and puts them out on display. I mean, the ones i've done business with, just order everything. The only thing they would keep in the store is the basic mainatence stuff and some rims. Plus its a waste to keep things waiting for a buyer on the selves anyways.
Car: 2004 Rsx Type S,1998 Twin Turbo Supra,Fiances car 2003 Evo 8
Mods: Ask to many to bother listing....Plus theres not enough room
If I may say, holy freaking shit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rotlf Wow I cant believe some of the stuff I have read people have done on this site, I thought stuff on cybernation motorsports was funny l
Im sorry for the people that had to learn the hard way,
Car: 2004 Rsx Type S,1998 Twin Turbo Supra,Fiances car 2003 Evo 8
Mods: Ask to many to bother listing....Plus theres not enough room
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Originally Posted by itr206
I have seen their products first hand. I have held them, I have seen them break in front of me.
They are junk.
Seriously a tin can feels sturdier then their manifolds.
The turbos are crap. They are desiel truck turbos half the time whith HUGE back housings
The wastegates stick
Their BOV's I am sure are junk too.
Dont know about the IC's. I am curious on that.
Thats great you went 130mph on an SSAC kit. But it wasnt an off the shelf kit I am sure you did some modifications to it.
I can post links too from Supraforums where some QA nerds bought the manifold to do some material content and strenght and durability testing on them and such. To really tell about the welds and metals.
Its a bit over my head, but good reading.
I can dig that up if people want it.
I wanted to give a shout out to a fellow Supra owner, Love the MkIII :clap
i bought one of their kits a couple of months ago. when the kit came in, i stored it in my room with the orignal box that it came in. (we do not have a garage)
it sat there for a couple of days then i noticed that my room is now infected with really tiny cocroaches... i knew it. the first time i saw that 'lousy' looking box with the shiny "ssautochrome" sticker on it, i knew it was trouble.
so if you plan to buy one of their kits.consider buying raid first.
and o yeah, i forgot to tell you that the damn ex.manifold is too damn shinny!
whats up with the chrome? want us to go blind!?
im really in to the classic "rusty cast iron" look.
Hey guys, I followed this thread from eBay of all places. Someone bought an SS Autochrome Header and put this thread as the feedback.
My company used to sell a lot of the same Chinese junk that SS Autochrome does. We no longer sell that stuff as we have had WAY too many problems with returns.
One thing to note about the welds on the manifolds, they look pretty, but they are actually really bad. The reason that they are so bad is that they do not penetrate deep enough into the metal. Basically, they are just a surface weld. Every single manifold that we sold for the SR20DET cracked in one way or another. It did not matter what we did to the manifold, they all cracked.
Another thing that they do not do is use an Argon back purge. This process makes the welding process a lot better for the inside of the header. If you look at the inside of most of the headers, they have a lot of splatter and burn marks, this is from the lack of the Argon back purge.
If anyone buys the stuff that SS Autochrome sells, remember that you get what you pay for.
Well I saw this post from the ssautochrome feeback page.
I wanted to make something similar.
I bought a semi kit from ssautochrome.
Manifold, intercooler, piping, downpipe, external wastegate, etc.
First the spring was supposed to be a 7 psi spring, it came with a 14 psi spring. Good chance I noticed, I'm putting this on my stock engine
The kit was missing some collar and silicone hoses.
I removed my old manifold and began test fiting. Nothing fits. And when I say nothing, I mean nothing!
You obviously can't keep the AC with their kit. I was installing it to an integra and the turbo goes exactly where the radiator is supposed to be. I had to buy a SiR radiator to fit the kit. The piping doesn't fit at all.
The wastegate was bolting right into the Civic radiator. I had to get my friend to cut the wastegate port on the manifold and make it fit in the engine bay.
The downpipe doesn't fit behind the oil pan, it had to me modified.
Nothing would fit on the piping so my friend (who fortunatly knows how to weld) made me custom piping from A to Z.
The exhaust flange on the downpipe is not compatible with a honda exhaust, so it had to be cut and fitted.
The downpipe By the way, blocks the internal turbo wastegate housing so that's why I had to use and external wastegate.
Now once installed, we started the car up, in 10 seconds whe manifold changed color and will most likely become really ugly.
The turbo works well and spools fast, the intercooler seems to work fine but since I don't have any fuel management yet I'm not driving the car...
It finally works, but if you think this kit is bolt on, think again....
Iordered a kit from them to . Ididnt get any specs on my products. I dont know how many psi anything is.the company wont reply to my emails either.
Iordered a kit from them to . Ididnt get any specs on my products. I dont know how many psi anything is.the company wont reply to my emails either.
I am noy replying to you to be a dick to you, I just hope that others that are thinking about buying anything from SSAUTOCHROME will be able to read this.
The reason that they do not respond to emails is because they have no clue about what they are selling. NONE of them are techs. Most of them are assholes. Just look at the replies that they give to the people that leave them negative feedback. The feedbacks are really funny to read. Even if anyone there had a clue over there, they would never know any specs about the turbos because the turbos are all copies of Garrett's design. These Chinese turbos that SSAUTOCHROME, XSPOWER or anyone else sells are NOT TESTED. They never test anything to see if they work. That is why you will never get any CFM or PSIG #s from them. If you read their descriptions they always say "will flow like Garrett xx turbo". There are never any specific #s, unless they just take the #s off of the Garrett literature, which is commonplace for a lot of companies that copy parts.
Well I saw this post from the ssautochrome feeback page.
I wanted to make something similar.
I bought a semi kit from ssautochrome.
Manifold, intercooler, piping, downpipe, external wastegate, etc.
First the spring was supposed to be a 7 psi spring, it came with a 14 psi spring. Good chance I noticed, I'm putting this on my stock engine
The kit was missing some collar and silicone hoses.
I removed my old manifold and began test fiting. Nothing fits. And when I say nothing, I mean nothing!
You obviously can't keep the AC with their kit. I was installing it to an integra and the turbo goes exactly where the radiator is supposed to be. I had to buy a SiR radiator to fit the kit. The piping doesn't fit at all.
The wastegate was bolting right into the Civic radiator. I had to get my friend to cut the wastegate port on the manifold and make it fit in the engine bay.
The downpipe doesn't fit behind the oil pan, it had to me modified.
Nothing would fit on the piping so my friend (who fortunatly knows how to weld) made me custom piping from A to Z.
The exhaust flange on the downpipe is not compatible with a honda exhaust, so it had to be cut and fitted.
The downpipe By the way, blocks the internal turbo wastegate housing so that's why I had to use and external wastegate.
Now once installed, we started the car up, in 10 seconds whe manifold changed color and will most likely become really ugly.
The turbo works well and spools fast, the intercooler seems to work fine but since I don't have any fuel management yet I'm not driving the car...
It finally works, but if you think this kit is bolt on, think again....
How can you tell the diffrance between a 7psi. spring and a 14 psi spring.
i dont know about POS SSAUTOSHIT wastegates, never owned on first hand but since they are basically copycats of tials i would assume they use the same tial spring color codes.
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I cant believe some of the stuff I have read people have done on this site, I thought stuff on cybernation motorsports was funny l 
Gotboost? Im getting obnoxious in my old age 
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