TURBO YZ
 

I have been talking to a guy lately about buying a turbo from him,and have seen the turbo and checked for shaft play. The only thing is that it isnt a turbo brand i have ever heard of, the side of the compressor housing says Turbo YZ. I just want to make sure that this isnt some POS turbo. Anybody got any suggestions

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sounds like an SSautoshit turbo...stay away imho

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Yep - I'll second that - stay away from it.

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Yes thank you, drive through

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odd that when no one can ID a turbo by name, they immediately tag is SS Autochrome and say stay away.

can you get pics of this thing?

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its cuz maybe weve seen pics of that ss turbo before mr fook ;)

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well the ------- post one. i see no pics on this thread.

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If it's free for testing..test it and see what happens :)

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I also Disagree with the bitching against ss autochrome or any other company...
Simply because the guys are honest, they don'T deserve this.
Ok, SS might have distributed cheapo turbos, an item that you should never cut corners short on, but they remain a good company, offerring the best prices on OBX and Xspower stuff that is of an acceptable quality level for many other performance related accessories.

But the ZY turbo does suck. big time. And the problems with these turbos go far beyond the simple shaft play.

-The turbine housing cracks severely enough to make it fall apart completely. (heck, even the garrett turbos crack but ZY is much worst!!)
-The compressor housing is made of two parts that are GLUED together!! and yes, no surprise, it does fall apart with catastrophic results!
-I dissasembled many ZY before I decided to refuse working on them. Shaft, bearings, thrust collar and washers all show signs of overheating. Just as if the tolerances are out of wack everywhere in these turbos.
-I Never succeeded to balance one properly. No idea why.
-Are they really cheap? (considering that after only a few weeks of use you're caught with a failed turbo that you can't get rid off and you have to purchase and re install a real turbo anyways?)

One good point about the ZY turbo though: They look nice and shiny >:D

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i think this guy ^ is sleeping with the ss autoshit ppl...

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Me? Certainly not. as far as the turbo market is concerned, SS is a competitor of mine.

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I'm just glad BLAAST is an honest guy.

I would half agree with BLAAST in the sense that the turbo are sh!t. But I would have to disagree with BLAAST on his comment about SSauto simply because if SSauto was a good seller or even honest businessman (woman whatever) they would have scrapped those products that didnt work or failed miserably, and try to sell things that work rather then selling complete POS turbo kits to the general public. I can only imagine how many people have lost money to this fool.

I have my own opinions on this seller and i will knock on every product he sells simply because he is selling scraps of metal and ripping people off. I will make everyone of his customers know that they are buying shiet before and after the fact.

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You're right for the ZY turbos. They do suck. But if I remember well, the SS autochrome guys told me they changed to another turbo supplier. No idea if it's better though, because it is still some kind of an asian knock off.. ::) Still, I would never touch any asian turbo but hey: SS is certainly selling much more turbos than me so I can't blame him to keep going.

For the rest, I think the knock off BOVS, wastegates and manifolds are cheap, but acceptable. especially from a HMT point of view.
As everyone else, I have seen the pictures of broken XSP manifolds on the net but it means nothing to me. Any stainless turbo header will end up cracking if you make it support the weight of the turbo, wastegate, and half of the exhaust line with no holding bracket or flexpipe, all that on a car with no suspension and dropped low enough so the downpipe hits the ground..
I installed many of these ss headers myself, properly, and none cracked. I no longer sell or install them, not because I think they really suck that bad... basically, just because of their bad reputation!!

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Well the guy that i talked to at phoenix turbo and turbocalculator told me that they dont sell these turbo's which the seller told me that he bought it from phoenix. He aslo told me that it was brand new.. even thought the exhause housing showed signs of use, and there was oil present. I did have pics but i cant get to them right now. I already called the guy and told him that i wasnt interested so.. i guess problem solved.