ISIS parts

[Matej]

If you want to talk about finding ebay part matchups I can find greddy parts off ebay too. same with hks...same with EVERY BRAND.

Except for the fact that the parts identical to ISIS have been on Ebay for years, long before ISIS existed as a brand name.

[Kalypso]

^ Matej leave them be.

out of the 120,000+ member mostly everyone just wants something cheap.its a sad fact.

> the cure to all of your parts buying woes is to learn how to weld.

[r34 gtr]

Yeah but some things you just can't screw up, regardless of who is making them.

I got an ISIS stainless clutch line a few months back, and it works great. I would have made one myself but I was in a pinch and no local stores sold stainless line at school. I emailed Ken and he had the line there in a few days, and I was back on the road. THAT is why I didn't go through eBay, customer service and speed of delivery. You just can't beat it.

[White Comet]

^ Matej leave them be.

out of the 120,000+ member mostly everyone just wants something cheap.its a sad fact.

> the cure to all of your parts buying woes is to learn how to weld.

i'm making my own manifold and dp for my topmount setup, but it's kinda difficult to weld up braided lines. enjuku sells the isis lines for cheaper then other topmount lines and in all honesty i like the way they look and since its through enjuku i have confidence they'll stand behind their products. i normally don't cheap out on parts but i'm sure they'll be fine.

[heartofaskyline]

be a balla, and get the real s***. but make sure you get a V.2 because as you can tell, the V.1 sucks for after market fuel rails

[White Comet]

if being balla is throwing away money on a intake manifold when the knock has been proven to work fine, then i will choose not to be balla.

[sideslider]

heres a couple pics of the isis parts i got from enjuku.

[kpodj61240]

i concur. all i see is a waste of money. mine was 1/4 of that cost and it looks the same and in my usumpsion works the same.

[Kalypso]

but they're still copies...

imo original or custom made.

[White Comet]

but if the copies work just as well, why not?

i'm not advocating all copies but for certain things it's fine. karmakaze (i think thats the usernme) has a knock off intake manifold and it woks fine and is holding up to the 400hp that he's putting down.

[dbrass240]

just to clarify up a bit

ISIS - Isis is also known as the goddess of simplicity (Wikipedia)

Its what they are - simple parts that we can all use to replace brand names, and they're quality is actually amazing. BTW, the exhaust on ebay is the exact same as the ISIS brand. i've had two of them side by side...

[Bumnah]

Everyone has their budget, purchasing knock offs is understandable. If there wasn't a market for knock offs, no one would be making them.

I'll stick with the name brand stuff, personally. The name brand companies actually spend some time engineering their pieces. If GReddy hadn't designed their oil pan, the knock off versions wouldn't of existed. As stated earlier, I'll support the name brands.

[dbrass240]

well, the thing is - companies like greddy are basically in their decline stage of their products life-cycle, and in order to really stay in the scene they need to start evolving and improving their products, b/c these new companies coming up are simply copying their design and may even be adding things we like (such as the polished intake) - its bad news for the companies that really started everything...its just the market starting to take affect....

the state of the economy - i'll take my chances and save a dollar. now when it comes to vital parts such as turbos, cams, internals - i'm definitly going with the Greddy's, HKS, Comp, etc . . .

who cares where you get the buns and fries, just don't ruin it with knock off ketchup every single time!

[White Comet]

its not like i don't support name brand parts. i have stuff from nismo, apexi, hks, greddy, etc. but i'm not gping to pick a larger name brand over another company's product just cuz of the name, thats blind loyalty. for me personally, i have isis turbo lines. they seem to be quality and as a mentioned earlier are sold through enjuku, how i'm sure will back what they sell, but in all honesty i just went with isis because of the looks. i assume it'll function like any other turbo line and i liked the stealthier look of the isis lines compared to other company's. the isis lines were cheaper too, but thats just a bonus i didn't buy them just to be cheap

[Ninjamasta]

I just ordered an Isis Oil pan from them, can't wait to see it in person.

[agile_moments]

Making your own IM =

eh?



Honesty...If I was in a pinch and wanted some parts I would probably buy these ISIS things...but...I really would prefer to buy the better stuff...if only to support the companies. Unfortunately, I do have a lot of 'name brand' stuff on my car..but almost none of it was bought new.

[BlackDragon328]

ill have an answer in three to six months on the ISIS intake manifold. g-dimensions is building me a (hoping for 500-600hp crank) Sr20det and I have no interest in name brand parts IF and only if, knockoffs work just as well. however I have a greddy intake manifold so when we do the tune, I will have the ISIS and the greddy side by side and I will test both if we have time. (tuning off an AEM EMS).

something to say about knockoffs though, I have been running a knockoff BOV (ebay!!) for a long time and now that I upgraded to a gt2871r from the original t28 and upped to 15psi boost its leaking, and at 19psi boost it really leaks. so knockoffs arnt all good either.

last thoughts on this is that enjuku racing is a good reputable site/dealer/company and they have some nice cars running ISIS stuff, I have never seen them put junk on their cars OR sell junk. So I'm not saying the ISIS line is as good as name brand....but I can't say its not. I'll test it when I get the s14 on the dyno.

[OutToWinPAHC]

This is my friends car. He daily drove these for 1 year and 10 days. This happened last week.

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[krash]

I haven't bought anything serious from them, just the short shifter and the steering hose. But they were top notch. I'd wait for some more reviews before I went to buy an ISIS turbo though... I don't see why their manifolds would be bad, they tend to do good with casts.

[SilviablhS14]

I just recently purchased the ISIS arm package and so far so good. I've been driving on them for about a month now and there are no problems at all. When I got my car aligned the guy that did it said that it was pretty easy to align and that he didn't have any trouble doing it.
We shall see as time goes on how they last. Hopefully last long and not like the pictures above.

[1KleenS13]

This is my friends car. He daily drove these for 1 year and 10 days. This happened last week.

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This is the chit that scares me with buying cheap suspension parts. Who cares if you saved $600 on a set of coilovers if your putting your life on the line. Im looking into getting tension rods for my car, I see the ISIS and Megan ones out there for $100, but then I see SPL's at double the price. I dont want to have to worry if the things gonna take a chit when I'm doing 60+mph down the rode, lord knows I drive like a a** most of the time but at least I know my car isnt going to fall apart from underneath me. At this point I think I made my mind up and Im going with the SPL's, plus there made in the USA . I"m not going to put cheap chinese crap on my car and set myself up for catastrophic failure in the future.

PAHC who makes those coilovers?

[OutToWinPAHC]

That is Justin Tekudrifter's coilover and it's ISIS

[2.4Loflove]

The only thing I have bought from them on enjuku is the EGR block off plate. I got it cheap, free shipping, and it came with the gasket and new hardware. The quality seems fine, it just threw me off for a second because the bolts were standard 1/2" and I'm so used to wrenching on my car with metric tools. Enjuku will stand behind the products they sell, so if you do have an issue with a part I'm sure they will compensate you.

[BlackDragon328]

buying cheap coilovers is horrible for several reasons. first most cheap coilover companies dont test their springs so the spring rates are different on each spring (I don't remember what my set of godspeeds where but they were horribly off). second, they are made with sub-par materials and it does put the car and driver at risk (as beautifully shown above). coilovers are a complicated part of the car and also one of the most vital when modifying for track or canyons (or whatever other type of motorsports related driving, or spirited daily driving).
Its like someone said above, "something like an intake manifold is hard to f..k up, but I would buy a turbo from them"

the tension arms etc, I have less of a problem with, I had godspeeds on one of my track cars for ages and nothing ever went wrong, but those are also much simpler parts, and they did have a bit of surface rust when I pulled mine off.

on a side note, others might not agree, but once again megan has been named as a cheap company and each time that happens it makes me feel a little sad. YES, they are not up to par with say....greddy or HKS, but megan makes some great products, much higher up then ISIS. I've owned 2 sets of track series coilovers for a long time as well as a few smaller parts and never had a problem (I crashed one set and passed the other set to a friend who still has them). I had the spring rates tested and they are even (megan started testing them themselves from the factory within the last 2 years), and if you want a great new coilover look the megan spec-rs.
well that was slightly off topic....sorry, i just think megan deserves a little more credit then people give it.
I also agree with 1kleens13, USA or Japan made is best, i'm not trying to belittle other countries but quality control in the US and Japan is just better then most.

[StricNyne]

I am rocking a number of isis parts on a 400hp RB25, i have their short shifter which, needed the shifter bushing shaved down a good bit, but once that was done it kicked a** (feels like oem shifts just more solid), i am running isis subframe spacers, which are just subframe spacers so nothing to say there, they have nice andondizing (or paint ), i run the isis intake manifold, the casting was good, the water galleys for the coolant, needed to be cleaned up a bit, but nothing catastrophic, other than that i am happy with it, my friends talk s*** but it looks identical to his greddy, but i will add that the hardware it came with was for the most part absolutely trash. Finally i run isis control arms, they are pretty decent, the powdercoating chipped in a couple places, and the heim joints rusted (these are not meant to be daily driven on , and i live in nj with snow and salt and yadda) i am going to clean up the joints with scotch bright and oil them with some good lithum grease, i was told i might have to do this yearly which is not that big of a deal for me, any other questions ?

[TekuDrifter18]

This is my friends car. He daily drove these for 1 year and 10 days. This happened last week.

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These came off of my car like OutToWin said. I would not recommend buying the coils at all after this happened. This is kind of making me think about changing the suspension arms I got from them as well. This is the best showing of you pay cheap you get cheap.

[White Comet]

wow Justin that sucks. did it fail at all while you were driving?

[Gabes13]

Dang, I like those pictures. Have you sent them to Ken at Enjuku? He's open to neg feedback

[OutToWinPAHC]

Justin, Nick has a brand new set of ISIS S13 RUCA's at home. LOL I checked them out and the construction looks good, welds are not bad, material looks nice, but the joint's lololol. So much play, kinda like when a ball joint or outer tie rod gets worn out and just flops side to side..... yeah that. As far as Ken at Enjuku, he is a heavy seller of the isis product, but not the only and I am not so sure Justin bought from him. You know little parts are hard screw up, but when it comes to coilovers you gotta play it safe and save for a more reputable proven product. I don't care how good the warranty is , or who's backing them because that wont mean anything when your stuck on the side of the road or worse.

[Chaluska]

Dude, some people like to spend an outrageous amount of money on "name brand" parts...

In my experience of several KA-T's, and several 240's.. i've never had one knock off part break or fail on me... granted its all non-moving parts, (no knock off turbos) exhausts, downpipes, manifolds, intakes, intake manifolds, air filters..

all cheap, and all have worked fine until i sold or wrecked, or upgraded the cars.