Have you heard a Turbosmart DualPort? I've got one on my IX on full recirc, it is VERY loud at certain boost levels and has a sequential sound to it.

 

I had the HKS hi power dual on my old Honda s2000. Sounded amazing and quality was great. Having had any other experiences with their products. I know people are happy with their drop in filter and exhaust on the X.

 

holy **** this is a bold statement. Especially considering the list I posted. Pretty sure it's mostly American made and, according to my research here, the best you can get for an Evo.

I had no idea all of our domestic fabricators were so inferior to the japanese.

According to your 95% claim I guess I should be easily able to find some JDM stuff that's better then the Mil.Spec, ETS, CBRD/Blouch, Buschur, Works, and GTWorx junk I got for my car.

Do you have any recommendations?

 

I had a Turbosmart DP on my first X and hated it, it caused me tons of problems

I bought an "HKS" bov on eBay, paid a lot for it, turns out it was still fake. NOTHING BUT PROBLEMS.

So I bought a used one for $75 bucks that i knew to be authentic, and I love it. Sounds great, VTA with zero issues, great product.

Perhaps you haven't ever tried to tune a Greddy BOV, idk, but HKS is good stuff.

 

I'm unsure why people don't just use the "crushed" stock recirculator? Place it in the vice, crush it like 4mm and PRESTO. Free mod, that has been proven by tuners to work.

 

I tossed my HKS plugs.

 

Ok, ill back it off to 85% And i think you're confusing performance with production quality (BTW, I never said anything about fabricators). The japanese use VERY high quality materials and scrutinize clearances better than most american companies...i hate to break that to you. Look at manual for building a honda motor, then compare it with the tolerances and clearances of it's american counterpart. ****, the same goes for german parts. Why do you think they run for so long with less failures?

I know companies that build race/drift cars that send their motors over to japan because their machines are maintained and tolerances are repeatably exact.

I never said that those companies' products don't work, perform worse, or aren't worthy of running. Matter of fact, I'm pretty sure I will run their parts at some point or another. But unfortunately, because americans are cheap asses (im included in that statement), american companies are forced to find the cheapest acceptable materials so that the costs aren't astronomical.

I will say that the companies that you have mentioned are just a short list of companies that actually take pride in their products, instead of trying to make a quick buck. That...is unfortunate in my eyes. I wish more companies would be like them.

I realize that my thoughts are a little verbose and jump all over...thats what a few drinks do

 

Srs!

 

what about their cams please dont bash hks they are one of the best they dont go for max hp but balance and they have done wonders for the evo community

 

My entire car is pretty much HKS ..... from Pistons, Cams, BOV, Intercooler, Oil Coolers, Turbo Actuator, Suspension, Exhaust, ECU, EVC, VALCON, Lines, fuel pressure regulator, Gaskets, spark pulgs........ its 430WHP and 420WTQ at 1.7 bar and has done 74,000KM and has never broken down or had a failure due to an HKS part.

 

I have great respect for HKS parts in general. Especially when I saw they're time attack evo 8(in response to one of the previous post, that one set track records in Japan and socal when it was running). I think they also had an awd drag skyline that set some records back in the day if I'm not mistaken.

But when it comes to the evo x parts, they aren't too appealing for the price and performance they give. The legamax exhaust aren't 3"(hi power are I think). The intercooler piping is twice as much as most other companies. Downpipe is restrictive and expensive (some of that has to do with the rhd version clearance of the car). As people mentioned, the vta and recirc bov isn't ideal.

If I had a r32-34 GTR or silvia, they'd be one of the first options on my mod list. But I'm looking elsewhere for performance on my evo x. I wouldn't go as far as to say they are a lower tiered company. They have shown the potential in performance on many different platforms, evo x not being one of them IMO (i know they have a demo car).

On a side note: I did buy a second hand hks IC piping kit for the evo x for pretty cheap (cheaper than buying any other name brand used uicp/licp). Fits just fine and haven't had any problems with it.

 

Cyber evo is an hks evo, right?


Also many rally evos running hks parts very sucsessfully.

Outside of the usa parts been measured mostly by quality first then the numbers.

And that mentality leaded to what it is today auto market.



All around the world people makes much better cars overll then a usa does, but less hp



Just food for thought...

 

I have to agree with the OP about their Bob's... I bought a hks bov.for recric proupuses... just for better response and had nothing g but problems with it... I ended up replacing it with a synapse and selling it to a Honda Guy on eBay. I am very happy with the synapse bov and they show a video compairison using the hks bov on a random car

 

+1

Love when people buy used parts and talk smack. Bov is not vehicle specific it is a universal item.

Buy an oem metal mitsu bov and be happy.

 

well, if nothing else, I learned something.

thanks.