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Old 02-17-2008, 11:04 PM
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any of you ****'s had a chinese ebay type turbo that has actually lasted quite a while - or still runninge tc

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have you seen the quality of a walmart shovel? Take that and and add moving parts=



1 in 100 lasts



Better off play the lotto
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Old 02-17-2008, 11:14 PM
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Originally Posted by chris
have you seen the quality of a walmart shovel? Take that and and had moving parts=



1 in 100 lasts



Better off play the lotto
i bought a $1 scratchoff, won $250. one year later i buy $10 in $1 tickets, and win $20 on a total of 6 tickets.
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Old 02-18-2008, 12:29 AM
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Old 02-18-2008, 02:34 AM
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i had one of those t3/t4 ebay turbos. lasted a good year. till i went n/a. never had a leak. i guess it is one of the one in a million things. also i only ran full syn oil. maybe that helped.
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Originally Posted by crayze_pnoy
i had one of those t3/t4 ebay turbos. lasted a good year. till i went n/a. never had a leak. i guess it is one of the one in a million things. also i only ran full syn oil. maybe that helped.
i have one sitting in my room. i plan on running it to see how long it will last. I plan on runnin a restrictor fitting with a whole size of .059" well see what happens.
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i ran one for about a year with a Function7 restrictor. even with the restrictor the seals failed and smoked like a chimney
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Yeah, they're completely hit or miss. I know of one(out of like 5 other ebay setups I know) that lasted over a year, and still going strong.
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