Welcome to a cesspool of haters when it comes to Doug and Frankenturbo. I hope you get the feedback you want given the general attitude towards him and his products.
There are videos showing how Doug tried to pass off Garrett compressor maps as compressor maps of his own turbos. The guy is shady as hell and was run out of the VW/Audi community. Stay far away from this guy.
There are videos showing how Doug tried to pass off Garrett compressor maps as compressor maps of his own turbos. The guy is shady as hell and was run out of the VW/Audi community. Stay far away from this guy.
Welcome to the world of Frankenturbo folks. Literally, he wants you to post on FB where trolls have free reign over everything, but an "anonymous-user forums" are not the place for them. Let's just look at the facts, and you can make your decision based on that.It's people regurgitating hooey like this who will be the ones to respond to this thread, OP. I appreciate the effort on the post, but anonymous-user forums are not the place for accurate info. Just hostility. Try Facebook... or one of the thousands of our satisfied customers in the VW/Audi market that we were, ahem, "run out of."
Thanks
Doug Harper
FrankenTurbo
Was using windshield washer tank for meth injection. Known to cause fires on the n54.
Claimed inlets are usless on stock turbos.
Cranked timing to the moon. Turned off knock detection blaming the stock dmfw for "false" misfires. Blew compression on 2 cylinders, then blamed jb4 for not logging timing.
Busted making fake compressor maps on the audi world.
Posted pictures of cast manifolds with serious casting problems.
Claims his turbos are made in china, then he takes them apart and re balances them, in house,
Then emails leaked from vtt that someone else was doing that for him, then stopped dealing with doug, due to his shady buisness practices.
Multiple people start joining the forums and thier first post is praising frankenturbo quality.
Doug claims has nothing to do with it, then it's revealed he offers $500 discount for dyno runs from beta testers.
Great! Let's hope we get some results soon. At least the thread is bumped a lot. That's a good sign!
I know the answer to both those questions. It's not my place to talk about who the beta testers are. I can tell you that there are average Joe guys and very reputable and well known N54 community members.Kinda.
I think some of these "haters" me included in that group i assume, are hoping this doesn't turn into another hexon.
Maybe he can make some reliable turbos, maybe he has no clue how these turbos work. Given the facts i posted above, I'm leaning towards he has no idea.
How many beta testers are there? How many of those have failed? We will likley never know.
Welcome to the world of Frankenturbo folks. Literally, he wants you to post on FB where trolls have free reign over everything, but an "anonymous-user forums" are not the place for them. Let's just look at the facts, and you can make your decision based on that.
Timeline:
With all the proven turbo options on the platform that meet, or beat his price point why would anyone bother to consider these as an option?
- Doug announces his upgrades in early January 2016, yes that's two years ago
- He posts a continuing stream of literal bullshit charts and graphs of things that have been done for years (including saying inlets do not help, then making his own, as well as running 25 degrees of timing) on the forums (yes the same place he is saying is not the place to post now) in hopes of duping some people with information overload
- In two years time, he has promised multiple turbo options, including cast turbos, yet has produced I think one very suspect dynograph
- The company that actually builds frakenturbos contacts us and we have an hour-long conversation with them on the phone. During this conversation they explain how Doug builds absolutely nothing, they build it all, how Doug is terrible to work with, words like (charlatan https://screenshots.firefox.com/TqOiaHEaT4iIv41V/www.google.com ) are thrown around, how he has brought them our products to them to be copied, the list could go on (Doug, be careful about disputing this, if you force my hand I will post the conversation in its entirety. I can assure you, you do not want this information public)
- After the conversation, we tried to warn some people, many of them called us haters
- Here we are in 2018 with still in "beta" with no results, and a bunch of claims, nothing else
Lol @ China N54 Turbo wars...