.....i recently helped a friend fab up a turbo kit for his car.he ordered the $700 special from SSAutoChrome for the turbo,mani,wastegate and BOV.
the turbo has "XS Power" stamped on the compressor side,and is a T3/T4 hybrid.
after about 30 miles of driving,the compressor housing broke in half!it appears the two halfs are held together with some kind of epoxy?i've never really paid any attention to it before,but i figured they'd be welded together or some other stronger means.this weekend i'll be back at the shop to check out my turbo and another one from SSAC to compare how the two halfs are joined.
anybody ever seen this happen before?freak occurance,or a result of shoddy work on assembly of the housing?

Wow... that's REALLY bad. It looks like a couple of spot welds to hold the halves together and some sort of epoxy to seal it up. Now that's janky ****. The XS stuff I've seen never seemed fantastic, it is pretty cheap after all, but I wouldn't expect something this ****ty from them.