So, Greddy just declared bankruptcy
jk.
09-10-2008, 07:21 PM
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Spent a few minutes reading through all the comments. Lot of people bemoaning how Greddy's products were of a high quality, their service excellent, etc. Scary- if Greddy is what these folks consider high quality, I'd hate to see their definition of garbage...
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09-11-2008, 12:09 PM
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Nothing has come down saying they were closing, so Greddy is still in the game. Much like most of our airlines, bankruptcy isn't the end.
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09-11-2008, 12:29 PM
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Wow, really? I don't think I've ever seen a Greddy kit that DIDN'T need some sort of modification even if it is minor to fit seeing as how most of them were designed for a right hand drive car and never redesigned for us before selling them here.
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09-11-2008, 12:36 PM
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While I acknowledge that my hands-on experience with them is limited to their 1.6 Miata kit, and that said kit is a very early product for them, I would not say that it is anywhere near the quality of the kits from FM / Bell. And understand that, by "quality", I'm referring both to the quality of the design and the quality of the manufacture.
First, the damn thing was designed for a RHD car, meaning it doesn't really fit right on a LHD car. The air filter rubs against the brake lines.
The FPR that they supply is non-adjustable, and is entirely too rich as pre-set.
The turbo itself, while a decent quality Mitsu unit, is not water-cooled.
The air filter is garbage, and its housing is known to come unscrewed resulting in the ingestion of the two little nuts that hold it together.
The rubber couplers they supply harden and crack rather quickly, unlike the silicone parts supplied by others.
Have you actually looked at the cast-aluminum intake pieces? Might as well install a restrictor on the compressor outlet. And WTF is up with re-using the stock flexible plastic crossover pipe? You know, the one with the bellows that bursts under boost.
Don't get me started on the oil drain...
The downpipe looks like it was cobbled together out of drinking straws by a blind Chinese war orphan.
The instructions that they include are a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy. I actually drove up to their office in Irvine to request a clean set, and they don't have one!
The kit P/N on the CARB sticker does not match the number on the CARB paperwork.
They have essentially no customer support. I tried for two weeks to get them to mail me a replacement CARB sticker (mine was missing when I bought the kit new from an authorized distributor) and they never did send me one despite multiple promises and a lot of phone tag. This was the primary reason why I had to take an afternoon off of work and make the aforementioned drive to Irvine.
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