Thread: a website to find good aftermarket parts for our cars!!

Originally Posted by Lance

Has anyone heard or have dealt with a website called www.3800performance.com an are they any good Thanks Lance

yeah, i bought alot from them. Pretty good place.

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alot of people use these sites including myself lol

Originally Posted by kingd44

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INTENSE-Racing.com - G8, Grand Prix, Bonneville, Regal, L67 3800 Supercharged Performance Products.


alot of people use these sites including myself lol

OP said that he wants a good website to buy from.

these are not said websites.

find me a better one..........

Originally Posted by FoSHO99

I strongly disagree.

Im happy that you have had such great luck with two vendors that...
A) develop products that fail and market products that do not work
B) Refuse to stand behind their products and constantly fling **** at their customer base.
C) develope tunes that are nortorious for causing all sorts of issues.

If you haven't caught on, im talking about intense and ZZP.

W body store, well... They have some nice stuff, but they dont ever restock.

PFYC sells some great stuff, but don't push the items that we could really use like the dif that they use to make.

Originally Posted by kingd44

find me a better one..........

See, you seem to think that since there are bad sites that somewhere there is a good site.

You must believe that there is a good politician out there somewhere. Just because there is a pile of coal in front of you, dosen't mean that you will find a diamond.

Originally Posted by FoSHO99

There are many other cars out there with NO aftermarket vendors available, we should be thankful there is one at all.

Ahh, dammit...

Why do you have to have a valid point

Great customer service, they might have. But I still have seen them not stand behind products on many occasions.

They are our only majour sponsors, so you do have to support them somehow. I would make sure that you check with our sponsors first before veering to the vendors that don't sponsor this site.


Just make sure you do some research before buying a product from the two titans of trash.

I've spent thousands with ZZP and had no issues except their tranny settings on their PCM not working with 04+ cars. But all the other stuff I've bought I have felt was great quality with good service (except turbo tim).

I've only bought a shift kit from Intense, but the customer service was top notch and the kit is the most thorough shift kit on the market. I was very impressed and would not hesitate to buy something else from them.

Some of the links are probably gonna be dead, if they are, lmk and I will remove them.

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maybe merlin has just had some bad experiences ........

Originally Posted by Merlin

Im happy that you have had such great luck with two vendors that...
A) develop products that fail and market products that do not work
B) Refuse to stand behind their products and constantly fling **** at their customer base.
C) develope tunes that are nortorious for causing all sorts of issues.

If you haven't caught on, im talking about intense and ZZP.

I agree 100%, **** ZZP. They screwed me outta $200 and as far as i'm concerned they can eat **** and die. Long story on that situation but they suck.

I've had better luck with Intense but there nothing to write home about either.

The only venders that are worth a damn in this community are PRJ Performance, Overkill, 3800 Performance, Devilsown (although they cater to everyone, not just us), Triple Edge Performance, Green Bastard Performance, and PFYC. If I can't get what i need through them, I don't need it at all. Beside these few venders, this is all we got and its pathetic, wish we had a lot more options. At least the ones I listed are realible and will go out of there way to help you out. Screw everyone else. I'm thankful my car is where I want it to be and don't need anything else, because the aftermarket isn't here and if it is some of the prices are ridiculus. For ex: $85 alternator reloc brackets? Pathetic.

You should see the venders for the TB SS LS2 community, it would make you guys sick. So many choices, so many options its unreal. Don't have to rely on one or 2 venders to mod your vehicle, there are probably a dozen out there and they have way better results/records with there customers than our "big" venders...

Originally Posted by kingd44

maybe merlin has just had some bad experiences ........

You ever see the intercooler that zzp made that was aluminum on one half and phelonic on the other?

I knew that as soon as they put that out, that it would fail. Materials expand and contract at diffent rates due to temperature changes. Stuffed between a heat generator and a contained explosion, with cool liquid flowing through it would experience quite a range of heat variants.

My friend bought one and it was literally the two plates bolted together with nothing in between them. It cracked and caused a leak.

When he wrote to ZZP they stated that it was because he diddnt torque the bolts correctly. The only thing that could have marginally saved the damm thing is if he just siliconed the thing together and diddnt put bolts in it.

This was not a one off problem. The reason you dont see those anymore is because ALL of the sold products broke!

Did ZZP do anything? No, and this is only one of many examples i have.


So much for spending thousands of dolllars on R&D. They throw **** together and sell it as fast as they can, not worring about if it works.




And dont start me on intense. All of their transmisison items can be bought cheaper through our vendor www.tripledgeperformance.com and all of their other parts they sell are off the shelf items. When was the last thing that they sold that they manufature themselves? because all of their stuff fails.

They aqqired the a/a intercooler from FIT in asutraila and were working on making it work for the GTP. they managed to get ahold of one and tried to put it on the car, but it diddnt clear a few components. Instead of developing the inlet and outlet to work for our cars, they called it quit. It was not difficult at all to redirect the i/o ports in a new mold but that was too much trouble for them. all they wanted to do was recycle someone elses crap idea.

Intense is a great middle man, and thats it.