question about the turbo kits CDN made
Depends on your ultimate goals. RRM would definatly be the choice company for customer service and availability. Plus they are alot closer. I'm not sure on Accolades knowledge on RPW's products and turbos in general, they are a body kit manufacture. RPW would be a great choice for someone with great knowledge on FI, expecially on the 4G9's
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isn't RRM like all the way in california? if i'd order RPW kits, i wouldn't order it from accolade... i mean, i guess they do distribute them now, but i woulda ordered straight from RPW, which, if i remember correctly are based somewhere in the US? like VA or GA or something or was it NJ.
anyhow, i agree with you, accolade is only a body kit company, and i dont think they'd know much about turbo kits. although, i've seen an immense improvement in their body kit quality.
anyhow, i agree with you, accolade is only a body kit company, and i dont think they'd know much about turbo kits. although, i've seen an immense improvement in their body kit quality.
Accolade sells RPW product. The RPW products still have the same quality they had before Accolade jumped on the bandwagon. Accolade distributes their product so you can save on shipping cost. Accolade makes big orders so they get a break on shipping. Even though Accolade sells RPW product, RPW is the place to go for advice and help.
what you save in shipping by ordering from accolade you lose 2-fold in the price! ordering directly form RPW tends to save between 15 to 50% of what accolade charges. a little premium for being convenient i guess. RPW does have tons of cool stuff though and they have everything you can think of for mods really (accolade does NOT carry their full lineup oflancer parts so check www.rpw.com.au for all lancer parts).
i love how everyone jumps on the RRM bandwagon! it happens in every post
but as said above, not really any complaints about their product and definitely great customer service! a little highly priced if you ask me though. and sometimes they rebrand other ppl's products and charge more for them 
RIPP from what i hear makes a solid supercharger kit for our lancers and at the same price as the intercooled RRM turbo. doesn't seem to be much of a difference in these kits other than one is a super and the other is a turbo. haven't heard any complaints as of yet and they are much closer than RRM (NYC i believe)
some big performance shops will do turbo setups but will be more expensive than buying one of the above sincethey have to custom fab everything and usually haven't done a lancer before. a friend of mine went this way with his celica, i wasn't very impressed and he spent way too much $$ for what he got.
of course there is always the custom turbo setup done by you, which will give you exactly what you want and tends to be cheaper than any of the above options. but most ppl don't like this idea as much as buying a pre-fab kit
i love how everyone jumps on the RRM bandwagon! it happens in every post
but as said above, not really any complaints about their product and definitely great customer service! a little highly priced if you ask me though. and sometimes they rebrand other ppl's products and charge more for them RIPP from what i hear makes a solid supercharger kit for our lancers and at the same price as the intercooled RRM turbo. doesn't seem to be much of a difference in these kits other than one is a super and the other is a turbo. haven't heard any complaints as of yet and they are much closer than RRM (NYC i believe)
some big performance shops will do turbo setups but will be more expensive than buying one of the above sincethey have to custom fab everything and usually haven't done a lancer before. a friend of mine went this way with his celica, i wasn't very impressed and he spent way too much $$ for what he got.
of course there is always the custom turbo setup done by you, which will give you exactly what you want and tends to be cheaper than any of the above options. but most ppl don't like this idea as much as buying a pre-fab kit