My girlfriend's '10 justa started having the death rattle. Has about 90k on it. So time for the timing chain. I ordered a Febi kit from ECS. Are they as good as the OEM one (not a high bar...)? Any reason to go with an OEM or detroit-tuned one?

 

We sold a bunch of them and they are an OE supplier and with that kit they included the needed updated loner tensioner. The Simple kit is not the full kit as it's without the hardware, we do have those febi kits in our assembled by ECS kits.

 

The parts over all are the same, but our kit includes more parts, as well as the most important part, we Cryogenically treat all the metal parts to resist stretching in the future. THis step, for the few extra pennys, really helps the longevity of the parts and keeps the motor running better, longer. As long as you keep oil in the car i would say it's bullit poof! We have been selling and installing these kits for a long time (2009??) and have not had anyone tell us, or return to the shop needing another one after getting one of our kits installed. We do this operation to all of our timing kits.

N14: https://www.detroittuned.com/mini-n14-timing-chain-kit/
N12/16/18: https://www.detroittuned.com/mini-n1...ing-chain-kit/
Gen 1: https://www.detroittuned.com/mini-ti...ain-kit-gen-1/