haha rotas are one thing but drags Eww

 

nooooooooooooo saw it today at the esco yard and i was gonna go back tommorrow but now im emo lol

....just showed the wife the post and she said suxx...gues she had planned on buying it for my birffday my mom told her 1095 for a clean da go get it...but none the less nice come up

 

damn i hate it when that happens lol just means that Da wasnt meant for you

 

it was at the oceanside yard...yea i went for a $15 part and ended with a da lol...yea i knew i had to jump on that deal quick..the wife even told me why didnt u sleep sleep in it and go tomorrow lol...but im not getting the car till two weeks cuz thats what they take to finalise the papers...it sucks...

did u see the old school toyota that they sold for $200?

 

and i was soo pissed off cuz the bolt stripped from the top hat of my dc, and it took me 2 days to finally take it out lol...i was like **** im suck an idiot im wasting my time now at the junk yard and boom i saw that beauty at the entrance lol

 

thats whats bro, nice find. i love those gs rims ive been lookin for some for ever.

 

oceanside esco samething lol after driving 45min for parts i really dont care what its called lol i just wanted parts....u shoulda slept on it and given me till 12 to go get it lol ...the old toyo wasnt that nice but good deal buut the wrecked rav4 that sold for 2100 had me going wtf lol

 

LoL, everyone always wants to "hate" on something, who cares!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Whether it is Blox or Rota, it's always something, like we always say, to each their own!

I have Blox and Skunk 2 parts on my car now.............

Once somethings already been done, everyone after could be labeled a copy cat............

 

no everyone IS
I dont care if blox exists, I just won't buy their parts and tell everyone I know not to either. I have standards, why don't you?

 

matt the point brice is trying to make is the fact that the original companies put tons or time, money, research, etc. into developing the parts to be the best that they can produce and then all the knock off companies come in and just straight up copy what they worked so hard for just to make a quick buck. eventually the knock off companies will put the original companies out of business, then who's going to come up with new parts?? i'm sure the knock off companies wont be making anything new. all they know/have means to do is copy, not r&d and everything else that goes with it. they are slowly ruining the industry for everyone.

now, with that said, i can not sit here and say i've never had any knock off parts before, but the point still remains of whats happening.

actually, i remember not so long ago aaron bonk did a great write up on this very topic in one of the issues of honda-tuning magazine

 

Matt and afro the reason that is so cheap is that is a GM product was on older chevy trucks..matt they are cheaper and do work(I had one) but when i was visiting jk he told me the issue with those is if they fail for some reason, they fail closed and nothing will open your wg and you will over boost.Now im sure you have a boost cut. but when the hondata has an issue it fails open allowing the wg spring to open and only boosting whatever your spring is...im tired hope that makes sense.


ROFL

 

Yes I understand that but as a consumer when I see a good deal, depending on the part I normally jump on it. That's just how things are.
I have standards it's just some of those parts work perfectly well and I would be a fool to pass it up.

But JJ that does not look anything like the GM boost solenoid, that looks exactly like the Hondata one.

 

Every single industry has copycat companies. Hyundai and Kia in the auto industry are a couple good examples. This sort of thing is what perpetuates new development. Skunk2 comes out with something. People buy it up. A year later Blox copies it. Skunk2 is forced to develop something new to differentiate themselves from Blox. And so on. Now, is a little more regulation required? Probably. Did I still buy my Blox intake manifold over the S2 Pro Series because it was $120 cheaper? Damn right I did. Why can't Skunk2 be competitive on price? I have yet to see anyone complain of an intake manifold failure.

 

Some people like quality some people don't. Simple as that.

 

back on topic

 

well I guess the point was, there are more companies than just SKunk and there copy cats. I bought an AEBS manifold for its price and its performance. I owned a skunk2 back in the day and would buy their products again. I just choose not to support the knockoff industry and i'm trying to persuade everyone else to do the same

 

 

Are you guys serious?

Skunk2 and BLOX products are probably made in the same freakin' factory in Taiwan. If you wonder why the products look the same, it's because they ARE the same. BLOX can offer the same **** cheaper because they probably have less overhead, do less marketing/advertising, sponsor fewer cars, etc.

Buying BLOX products is NOT supporting the knockoff industry, it's buying the same mass produced parts from overseas, just at a cheaper price with a different name attached to them. Skunk2 obviously outsources their manufacturing, and BLOX probably gets the same products from the manufacturer.

I bet OBX uses some of the same factories and products too...

 

probably. you don't know, so don't guess.

 

"If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, looks like a duck, it must be a duck."

 

That's retarded! I guarantee if I place both a Skunk2 and Blox product in front of you, you wouldn't know the difference. Besides if they are exactly the same then are they both not quality? I'm sure they both have the same QA process from their factories over seas lol!

Yuppppppppppp

 

I don't think he was differentiating between Skunk2 and BLOX or calling either of them quality. Pretty sure he was saying neither are quality products.

Personally, I wouldn't buy either of their products unless they were something that you can't f*ck up... Like a plastic velocity stack or a VTEC solenoid cover.

 

what would your recommend as far as manifolds then?

 

OEM

I had an AEBS manifold on my DA when I had it, but in hindsight I should've just bought an OEM ITR manifold.

 

if blox is exactly the same as skunk2, then why are the bushings in the blox control arms so shitty and dont last and the skunk2 control arms last??