It's too much hassle for me, yes. I never do most of the work for my car. I don't have the tools, time, experience or patience to do it. My feeling is, I let a well known shop with a lot of rep take care of it, which gives me peace of mind. If they screw up it's their *** and I incur no extra cost or time repairing it.

Make sense? I seriously don't think I'm the only one that feels the same way.

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I definitely see where you're coming from there. It wasn't meant as an insult to people that don't have the tools or time available to them in any way shape or form.

Since you're actually pretty close to me, if you ever need help installing or removing anything let me know. Got a garage with basically every tool you'd need to get any job done :)

Yep. Exactly.

On that note, wasn't someone on here recently very unhappy with the welds on their $1200 exhaust system? I thought it was an Ark CBE, but I could be wrong...

Nope.

To the OP, it's a set of two single pieces of steel pipe with two flanges. If it looks dodgy send it back, but my guess is it will be just fine.

The only "issue" with mine was that, inexplicably, the bolts they sent with it were too short and I had to take a run to the hardware store. Otherwise, no issues.

I think this is Hilarious. Come on guys. Money=Quality?? You should know better than that.

the great TP's can crack too, so the analogy of paying someone to do the work twice to install the pipes would be 4x's as much if your Berks were to crack.

if these 100$ E-bay pipes hold up for 2 years, and you get some new ones at that point, you have spent 200$ for 4 years worth of pipes.

The only Issue to me would be they don't fit from the start, other than that, a weld can be fixed. EVEN THE BEST WELDS CAN BREAK.

Material used would be my concern if any. The LISTING say STAINLESS STEEL, but I would be weary of that because of the price.

HP would be the same, they are Test pipes...

I would never buy an E-bay TURBO with moving parts, but to say you have to spend 200+ bucks for test pipes because we drive a Z sounds to me like you have your nose in the clouds...

Well coming from the 300ZX (Z32) crowd this was discussed in length over there a while back and it was deemed the ebay down pipes were just fine and worth the hassle. It's a hard part to mess up and break. A full cat back? Different story, and the reason I got a FI CBE. But I opted for cheap ERZ HFC's and I could not be happier. To each his own. I would "risk" it for $100. I did for $268 and it was worth it.

if the **** cracks then your car will be louder :) everyones happy Story over. bwahahaha

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There are horror stories of ebay turbo kits not working out, but partly it because these aren't really kits and they don't even bolt up correctly.

This is just two pipes -- not even flex pipes -- there's not much to break. My guess is that the same pipes are floating around sold by different vendors that are identical to the ones I have and they are fine.

these pipes are far superior to berks, fi's or any other brand...lol..

lol

im sticking with it until somebody can prove me wrong..haha!

i hope someone does prove you wrong my friend cuz its good info.

Nobody is saying they are, and I would think the "brand name" pipes are better. But for this application, is it worth the 3-4 times the price? I don't think so. It's hard to mess up a test pipe.

It's not like we are comparing an eBay Turbo kit vs a GTM/G-Reddy one... ;)

What superiority?

It's two mandrel bent pipes.

So long as they bolt up, they should be fine.

Until an ebay set cracks this is all speculation and grandstanding...

So far I have run
FI HFC's no issues
GTM Test pipes no issues
CNT Test pipes no isses
INVIDIA Test pipes no issues
Ebay 130 dollar test pipes NO issues
Get them, run them, if they **** up after 6 months who cares, it takes 45 mins to swap them out and ten mins to weld / fix