Thursday, February 13, 2014 - 03:26 pm, by: Jeff Bedsor(Jeff_bedsor)
The guys that were flogging Superspark coils said all the same things, look at them now, you can hardly give them away. Why would you buy a cheap made chinese copy when you can buy the real thing for the same or less? If these "Yellow" ones have technology improvements and are better, that's great. But I would bet that they are just a cheap knockoff painted a different colour. I corressponded with a chinese company several years ago about getting coilpacks made, if I sent over a new one they would make copies in batches of 300 for $13 each. Now do you see what I'm getting at?
Friday, February 14, 2014 - 02:27 am, by: Paul McGrath(Performancewise)
Well considering I've sold over 2500 sets of coils around the world in the last 5 years then I must be doing something right. I've heard far more good about my products than bad. Its normally the Chinese haters that say these kind of things so I'm not too bothered by it. Bit primitive in my opinion. Where is your iphone/ipad/ipod made. Your PC? Your TV? Your Fridge? All china I bet.
If you haven't tried the YJ's then you don't really have a leg to stand on in this discussion. The original poster of this thread asked "Anyone bought these yet?" There seems to be only one person that has posted in this discussion that has actually used the YJs and they approve them. Id bet my left nut that they are still running fine to this day too.
Anyone else with some first hand experience with the Yellow Jackets coils? Or are we to listen to those who have had no experience what-so-ever and continue to put them down with no real hard evidence to back there claims?
I've got the evidence right here and I'm off to the Post Office in the morning to send out another 5 sets of good quality, hard working evidence to some very appreciative and satisfied customers.
Friday, February 14, 2014 - 04:14 am, by: Boris Siljanoski(Z2tt)
Where it's made doesn't really matter it's the quality that matters, there are German brands that are OEM's to BMW for certain parts that have chinese factories make their parts.
Paul it looks like you got a great record and not many failures that's a good result it seems you got a very reliable product there, I don't know why others knock your product or talk badly about it, perhaps it might be from past experiences with aftermarket coilpacks. It's great that you offer a alternative product to Genuine parts that is working well for lots of people.
In my opinion, what your doing by listing 10-11kw gain is wrong and misleading. Just because your test gave a 11kw Increase on one car which you said had stuffed coils, it does not mean everybody else will get that increase. This should not be listed as a feature of the coilpacks under the dot points because you cannot verify that every car out there definitely has sub-par coilpacks.
For people who don't know any better or know how an engine works, and who happen to have good condition coilpacks and did not need to replace them, to come across your ad stating 11kw increase as one of the features of the coilpacks themselves, and chose to buy your coils only for that feature, they may be spending their money and time for nothing.
Friday, February 14, 2014 - 11:35 am, by: Ben Lipman(Ben12a)
LOL Boris, that is the point of advertising. Flirt with the truth, create a perception, influence pop culture etc to get people to purchase your product. McDonalds has some heart foundation approved burgers, but do you really believe they are the best thing you can put in your mouth as far as your heart is concerned? I do agree with your sentiment, but acknowledge the reality of marketing.
I think the Superspark coils have ruined any faith a lot of us have in aftermarket coils, most of which would be made in China. This is especially true of 1/2JZ owners as they were the only option to overpriced OEM coils a few years back. I personally got burnt, and don't want to spend more on Yellow Jackets, Goelbys or any thing else that might pop up to find out if they work or not. That might be another $1000 to find out. Am I missing out? There is a good chance I am. But when you have to work a full time job to save coin to fund your part time racing, I cant afford to be burnt twice.
I would love to see a bunch of people posting up in here if they are using the yellow jackets and share their views on them. I encourage after market manufacturers to make items for our cars. The reality is: if you want to manufacture on any sort of scale and be competitive on pricing you need to do it in China, Thailand, Vietnam, Mexico etc where the labour is cheap. Companies will not bother bringing new products to the market if they continually get shot down. I have had to make a lot of custom items for my car which is expensive and time consuming. I would much rather have the option of buying of the shelf if it was available.
I should point out that I am going to use Matt's 1NZ coil solution. That has its own band of dedicated haters, but it was a smaller outlay and uses Toyota OEM equipment. As I said, I don't have the cash to spend on one or two more sets of coils and hope for the best. Everyone raved about the Supresparks when they came out and I believed the hype.
Monday, February 17, 2014 - 10:16 am, by: Kaloy Szyd(Yumedake)
I bought a set of yellow jackets last january when my factory coils failed from too many cracks. I haven't had any issues with them so far. I got them mainly because of how cheap they were compared to the others ad they seem to do a perfectly fine job.
Monday, February 17, 2014 - 04:34 pm, by: Daniel Clarke(Dieseltrain)
Ben , Golebys are using the Echo coils and have a mounting kit available to go with them .
As for the Yellow Jacket coils , to the owner . Why not stand by your product , and offer a set to someone who can provide you with positive feedback on a non standard vehicle .
Might help the opinions of many to change and assist in sales ?
Monday, February 17, 2014 - 10:09 pm, by: Matt Newman(Soarersrock)
i don't buy the fact that these coils are made somewhere completely different form the other mobs producing aftermarket coils as i'm guessing that there would be maybe 5 companies in china that make this type of product. i have no issues with the product being made in china itself but its the quality control that lets them down, but by the sounds you have a descent QC program in place.
the other thing is i don't know why superspark is copping such bad review as i have had a set (one of the first sets for the 1/2j) for about 5 years or so without an issue. maybe its the same thing i mentioned above about QC im not sure all i can say is that from my point of view they have been fine.
Monday, February 17, 2014 - 10:45 pm, by: Robert Day(Lexsmaz)
I'm sure not all Chinese manufacturers do it but I heard recently that if for example someone in Australia arranges to get some part made in China & initially all is good & so is the quality till the Chinese manufacturer over there thinks his mate down the road could do it cheaper & so He organises his mate down the road to take over the manufacturing of the part & He still sells it as his original product but without any effort now & He still makes money on it too & then the second guy sometimes does the same trick & so the end result is often a poorly made product due to the cheaper build costs, but is still being sold as the original item ..
Wednesday, February 19, 2014 - 09:42 pm, by: Ross Pesina(Ross79)
I have been running these in my daily for two years. Installed them on 20/02/2012 and have so far done 50,000km with them installed. So far they have performed flawlessly! Id happily recommend them to anyone.
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