keep in mind cheap aftermarket might actually be worse than oem
as an example i have two metal pentastar oil cooler assemblies on my parts shelf, one made in china, and the other one made by dorman.
the chinese one is literally just a metal recasting of the plastic part, the dorman one is clearly re-engineered to be cast and machined
you can also find these weird metal intakes which you think woah cool metal right
except
they just recast the metal part from a plastic part and kept the fucking plastic molding flash inside the intake runners
like ??????????