Hey, no problem Prodigy. I'll tell ya, this is probably the most fun I've had with modifying anything. I've done some small mods to my truck but it's just not the same. And when get to see how these mods actually improve your ski, it makes it that much more satisfying. I've mentioned it in the past and I can't help but mention it again, just the extra 4.5" of expansion chamber to the exhaust makes the most difference and should be the number one mod on everyone's list. I did this mod for a buddy of mine just recently and he thoroughly loves the performance improvement. He said it makes the ski what it should be and agreed that hands down it is the single most important mod he has experienced yet. The piece of tubing I used is very rare and can become very expensive to order just in that small of a size, but if you can buy up a used stock pipe, cut that straight portion of the stinger off, get as close to 4.5 inches as you can and either weld it onto the stinger you use, or couple it together with a 4" to 4" plumbing coupler from Home Depot for about 10 bucks. You will have to cut the rubber exhaust tube down to about 5 inches long or so, you should measure it first because it could be 5.5", and bear in mind that there is an anti-collapse spring inside that hose that you will have to snip through with side cutters. But also keep this in mind because it just happened to me last weekend. That spring will get brittle, mine broke about 5 times without me knowing it and it made a little ball of springs inside the hose, then the one broken end eventually poked through the hose and I ended up having a torn hose from it. If you have this happen to you, the next best thing you can is either buy a 1.75" ID heater hose to replace that old exhaust hose, or cut the old one to have a pair of 3" long couplers, buy a 2" ID stainless exhaust tip for a few bucks, cut the rolled over end off and the end with the securing bolts to get about 4.75" of solid, polished stainless tubing and couple that together using the 3" couplers made from the stock hose. If you wanted to, you could also go to Home Depot and buy a couple of 2" rubber plumbing couplers if they sell it. Oh yeah, one thing to bear in mind too, when you use the 4" to 4" rubber coupler, you do need to double clamp each end. The coupler comes with a groove for one clamp to sit in, but you need a second clamp per side right before the edge of each pipe that you are bridging. If not, the pipe will flex inside the coupler and will cut it. The extra clamps really solidify the pipe and almost eliminate the movement so the coupler stays intact. Hope that helps if I haven't mentioned it before. There are more mods to come but now it's mainly buy and bolt parts, the poorman mods are slowly coming to a finish. I'll post the new parts as they get installed.