is this a load of crap, or do you guys think this will actually do something. i know guys install grounding kits, and they all seem to say that there is no noticable difference, so i wonder is a stabilizer would do anything. let me know what you guys think. oh yeah....this might not be the right place to post this.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...category=33577

 

There are few companies that make this product and it seems pretty cool but the ones I saw were like $150.00

 

I dunno about the company, but if it comes with grouding wires for 50, it probably wouldnt be the worst investment in the world... even if it does half the stuff it says... then again, just grounding wires would help with most of the increases that that person is claiming

 

Is that really something that ralliart has? I wonder.

Fox

 

Grounding kits really do work, expecially if you have an automatic transmission. If you do a DIY kit it won't work as well. The difference is there its just a small one so it is passed off as un-noticable.

 

what does a gk do? i have seen it but wtf is it.. and also ... i really dont understand y it would make sucha diff on an auto,.

 

I hate it when third party companies make a product and then they go ahead and slap on a big company sticker on it (like Ralliart). Then they call it JDM eventhough this is probably some kind of knockoff from Taiwan, Singapore, Philippines, etc... Man...

It reminds me of the "Ralliart Oil Cap" I purchased for 20 bucks. I knew it was a dumb purchase when it arrived in the mail. It had some kind of "Universal" packaging. The f---er broke in three weeks.

Eh, I just wanted to vent off for a second. I dub these "Universal" parts as "Type-R" parts. Ie: Ralliart Oil Cap Type-R.

 

I plan on getting a grounding kit for my car.

I just installed a new battery in my car since i noticed my old one was dying plus my Pioneer HU was showing huge power/volt drops every time i turned on something electrical in my car...A/C, headlights/parking lights, even just stepping on my brakes! It would drop from 14.7 Volts to 13.5 sometimes even lower! and when it dropped to 13v i could feel the motor struggling at idle...the car shakes...its nothing bad but it gets annoying after awhile and the shifting got really harsh and when i turn up my HU to get a little bass my interior lights would dim every time hard bass hits and my volt meter on my Pioneer shows the needle jumping around.

So i finally decided to upgrade to an Optima Red Top battery higher voltage, easy on cold starts etc. i noticed my idle was alot smoother, shifting was smoother, headlights and interior lights don't dim. A/C doesn't jerk the car as much when i first turn it on. Now my volt meter on my pioneer stays above 14v...

anyway my point is that if this Ground Kit really does what it says it does than it should improve the efficiency of the electronics in my car its only 15 just for the grounding kit and there are nice ones on ebay so it wouldn't hurt to try it out...im not expecting it to make a huge difference.

 

The bottom line is this: until someone takes a Lancer, plops it on a dyno, adds a ground kit, AND THEN takes the time to experiment with different placements until they find the one that helps the car the most,

no one will know.

I've seen some Power Pages articles in Import Tuner where they put on a ground kit and experimented with different placements, eventually gaining 3whp by finding the right spots. Someone needs to do that for us. HKS makes a kit just for the Evo, but no one makes a Lancer kit. All of ours are either universal or homemade. But when done properly, they do work. That's why rally teams use them.

 

I hate how people think JDM parts are top quality as with American Parts...Taiwan, Singapore, Philippines and other "cheap labor" countries do produce quality stuff...true they have alot of "universal" cheapo pep boys parts coming from those countries but its not their fault its the greedy corporate companies that pays them to make the products fault. The big companies like APC get cheap and tell them to cut corners and eventually the line up of parts end up being crap. Its the big corporations that decide wether they should use a screw thats worth 25 cents or a screw thats worth 5 cents but uses weaker materials.

Take for instance Rota yeah yeah they are cheap imitations but hell they weight the same as the japanese counter part, just as strong and is cheaper by atleast half the price than the real thing. Other than that your just paying for a name, a brand name that most likely gets their parts produced in cheap labor countries as well. Buddy Club USA and Taiwan are Taiwanese owned and SOME not all the products are from Taiwan also. GAB Motorsports suspension division also produces their parts from Taiwan...if you look at GAB's strut bars they look exactly the same as the generic strut bars being sold on Ebay...hmmmm maybe its because the other companies just pay off the company that produces the GAB parts [obviously without having GAB know about it] and puts their name on the products?


I understand you're part on it and I'm sorry to hear you got a cheap part...

I'm not saying everything from those countries are great products but it just hurts to see/hear people bashing on countries and the things that come from their home land that they proudly produce for export so that their people, their country has some sort of income/financial support. Let alone they work this hard for american pennies just so they can feed their family. I know it sounds like a cheap informercial to save the world and so on but give it a serious thought. Blame the slave companies not the people, not the country.

 

DriftRunSir is correct. America is capable of putting out crappy parts just as well as Taiwan. Like Ford, for example...



(Yes, that was a cheap shot. But I like Chevy.)

 

I didn't mean to offend anybody! My apologies if I did. It's just the OIL CAP that I'm really bummed about. I do have intentions of sporting the Buddy Club wheels though . It's just some of these products now are hit and miss in the terms of reliability. I was pleased with the oil cap at first, but then when it came about to the oil change, things weren't going as I planned. The lip on the bottom of the oil cap came loose and it wouldn't tighten whenever I tried to twist it into place. I kept it. I just don't use it anymore.

In other words, I have faith entrusted into reliable products. Not just JDM. Sorry.