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I am noticing more and more HKS T51 turbos and full kits popping up for sale second hand. People asking $5k plus for turbos and around $10k for a kit which includes turbo, manifold, dump and waste gate. Are these becoming a collectors item or are people hitting some serious gear while typing. I priced up my brand new precision 7685 gen2 as a full kit and even if I go full RRP and include ceramic coating and beanie and oil/water lines, I’m still under $10k. 
 

Am I having a man look and missing something abvious?

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On 05/07/2022 at 6:48 PM, r32-25t said:

Americans are dumb enough to pay it so people are advertising and laughing all the way to the bank 

To be fair the states haven't had ~30 years of opportunity to learn those lessons. So they'll go through all of that now.

I'm just hoping that more hype in the states will lead to people replicating parts that are getting rare.

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On 5/7/2022 at 7:20 PM, soviet_merlin said:

To be fair the states haven't had ~30 years of opportunity to learn those lessons. So they'll go through all of that now.

I'm just hoping that more hype in the states will lead to people replicating parts that are getting rare.

Or be learn from someone else’s mistakes instead of making all the same ones 

remember we used those parts because nothing else existed 

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On 05/07/2022 at 1:24 PM, khezz said:

I am noticing more and more HKS T51 turbos and full kits popping up for sale second hand. People asking $5k plus for turbos and around $10k for a kit which includes turbo, manifold, dump and waste gate. Are these becoming a collectors item or are people hitting some serious gear while typing. I priced up my brand new precision 7685 gen2 as a full kit and even if I go full RRP and include ceramic coating and beanie and oil/water lines, I’m still under $10k. 
 

Am I having a man look and missing something obvious?

The main reason is that people are paying these amounts, hence the market price rise. I would think it is for nostalgic reasons and builds that are trying to stay period correct.... they do pull on my heart strings a bit and bring me back to the days of 90s Japanese drag racing at Central circuit where they were common, they sound pure evil too.
Can you buy a far better turbo? Of course you can, but that's not the point of the price rise.

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On 7/7/2022 at 11:30 PM, Josh222 said:

It's just the YouTube clout people for the most part, I sure as hell wouldn't spend $3000 dollars on a journal bearing turbo.

Who would ever pay 3k for a set of journal bearing turbos because they might be miraculously better than an older ball bearing turbo for mid-range torque? Definitely not me. I would never buy snake oil like that. 

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On 9/7/2022 at 5:00 AM, joshuaho96 said:

Who would ever pay 3k for a set of journal bearing turbos because they might be miraculously better than an older ball bearing turbo for mid-range torque? Definitely not me. I would never buy snake oil like that. 

Now where are those graphs that hks publish? 🤣

 

not worth the pixels on your screen that junk.

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