280ZX intercooler setup on ebay!
08-20-2005, 12:30 PM
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280ZX intercooler setup on ebay!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Datsu...QQcmdZViewItem
280ZX intercooler setup, hope someone here hops on it!
280ZX intercooler setup, hope someone here hops on it!
08-20-2005, 10:00 PM
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For $200 you couldnt buy the stainless pipes and the couplings.
If you did it yourself, great...But most people dont have the tools to weld stainless steel. Hence the price. Also, your system looks fairly hacked together, instead of using all stainless and silicone, you used steel and rubber...It also looks like you cut your J-pipe and did a big fat bead onto a piece of steel.
It works, but it definitely wont last forever, and is not show quality, hence the major price difference.
If you did it yourself, great...But most people dont have the tools to weld stainless steel. Hence the price. Also, your system looks fairly hacked together, instead of using all stainless and silicone, you used steel and rubber...It also looks like you cut your J-pipe and did a big fat bead onto a piece of steel.
It works, but it definitely wont last forever, and is not show quality, hence the major price difference.
Last edited by Tyson; 08-21-2005 at 10:12 AM.
08-22-2005, 03:30 PM
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Originally Posted by NismoPick
man! whas the reserve set at? I found a massive Isuzu NPR intercooler at the junk yard the other day for $40... it's 24" x 18" x 2". Even my wildest SS piping setup wouldn't reach $500.
Sounds like you have yourself quite the business opportunity if you can do what you say! Most performance shops charge aprox $80/hr, so you could do the same work for $5/hr you can start running all of them out of business
08-22-2005, 05:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Tyson
Well then if you have all this wonderful fabrication skill, why are you whoring up my thread? If you can make a NPR intercooler setup and weld it all together real nice with mandrel stainless, then polish it and sell it for $500....Why arent you doing it?
Sounds like you have yourself quite the business opportunity if you can do what you say! Most performance shops charge aprox $80/hr, so you could do the same work for $5/hr you can start running all of them out of business
Sounds like you have yourself quite the business opportunity if you can do what you say! Most performance shops charge aprox $80/hr, so you could do the same work for $5/hr you can start running all of them out of business
08-22-2005, 07:47 PM
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If you're piecing together an intercooler setup from junkyard parts then yeah, $500 is expensive. But I've also seen intercooler kits that cost well over $1k! So I'd say $500 is a good deal for someone who doesn't have the fabbing skills to do their own setup. I'm going route of fabbing my own V-mount setup to get the best possible efficiency and still keep cost down by doing it myself.
08-23-2005, 12:00 AM
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Well then if you have all this wonderful fabrication skill, why are you whoring up my thread? If you can make a NPR intercooler setup and weld it all together real nice with mandrel stainless, then polish it and sell it for $500....Why arent you doing it?
Sounds like you have yourself quite the business opportunity if you can do what you say! Most performance shops charge aprox $80/hr, so you could do the same work for $5/hr you can start running all of them out of business
Sounds like you have yourself quite the business opportunity if you can do what you say! Most performance shops charge aprox $80/hr, so you could do the same work for $5/hr you can start running all of them out of business
08-23-2005, 06:47 AM
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Originally Posted by NismoPick
Sorry for "whoring up" your advertising thread. No harm intended, I just voice my opinion on pricey things, and cheaper, (maybe even more efficient) alternatives.
If you can build the same system for $200 like you said, and sell it for $500, $300 is quite a bit of profit no?
I have my reserve price set far below profit...If the final bid goes up over about $1050, then I will have made profit, but I doubt it will.
Last edited by Tyson; 08-23-2005 at 07:30 AM.
08-24-2005, 06:10 AM
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Originally Posted by s/cL3.0
haha.. Once my intercooler is in I will definetly post it up on ebay!!! Cant wait.. 450WHP setup for 2500.00 minus the SDS of course 
minus the SDS of course
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