Stock or Factory Pipe RN waterbox?

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Is there a way to tell if this is a stock or factory pipe waterbox for a roundnose? Always seemed louder than a stock box and the original build thread of the ski it came from mentioned a factory pipe waterbox but I know it exchanged hands a couple times since the original build. Sure signs/ways to tell?
 

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Can you contact factory pipe and ask them? Or I think Tim Tynan was involved in developing the waterboxes try contacting him through the TNT performance facebook page, I've gotten reasonably timely answers about TNT pipe stuff that way.
 
you guys are all clueless. that aint no OEM waterbox. the welds at the nipples look like crap, unlike a stock box. and the middle seam aint welded right either. that's an aftermarket box for sure. it aint a modified oem box. I've seen many of modded OEMs and once its cut down the middle and rewelded, you can tell.
 
I may be mistaken, but it looks to me like buzzard is emphatic about two things:

1. Everybody is clueless
2. That waterbox isn't stock

I'm not seeing confirmation that it is from factory pipe. Anybody whose welds "look like crap" or "ain't right" could have modified it.
 
there aren't double welds on the nipples, so those haven't been rewelded for whatever reason and those aint OEM welds.
when they get cut open, nobody removes any of the first weld, so when it gets rewelded, you can see the first weld in there too.
you have to assume nobody knows nothing. if you assume you're talking to somebody that knows what you're talking about and they don't, you are talking to deaf ears.
 
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