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Old 09-21-2022, 09:58 AM   #114
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True to an extent, that is the central annoying part of being an enthusiast for old Japanese cars though - the industry didn't mature into supporting legacy platforms in the era before today's marketing/manufacturing landscape the way the aftermarket for American cars did. No one will ever make metal S13 fenders because no one can do it cheap enough and sell enough of them to break even, meanwhile you can buy fenders for any random obscure American car that are better than OEM. This is as good as it gets and it sucks.

Also Tomei is one of the only 'big name' companies supporting the KA at all. Which is not at all to disparage the myriad smaller US based companies making this or that specialty item for the KA. They've quietly discontinued the cast turbo manifold AFAIK and that to me is a big loss - they say they have a new product coming, but if it's another tube manifold then it goes right back to "why buy from Tomei when five small companies with better reputations make this product already"
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