bored&stroked
Urban redneck
- Location
- AZ
The difference here is you can get a aftermarket 550 pipe, with the rest of the ski attached, for less then a used B pipe for a superjet.
How many people want a factory pipe !
- Thread starter jpersons44
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The difference here is you can get a aftermarket 550 pipe, with the rest of the ski attached, for less then a used B pipe for a superjet.
Except after having been down that road, I’d rather just have a b pipe with no ski to put it in, than a 550 that only runs 5% of the time lol.
Not anymore, 550 market is hot.
Factory 1/2 pipes sell for crazy money
They should make some, I bet they could sell them for the same as B pipe
bored&stroked
Urban redneck
- Location
- AZ
Not here. Market is saturated and they are worthless. Ski's don't die in the dry climate/no salt water so they just pile up.
- Location
- Cloverdale ca
I'm gunna call factory pipe tomorrow and see about a group buy. I know someone did that with kawi pipes not to long ago. Had to get 50 people in 30 days.
- Location
- Buffalo, NY
We'd love a pipe for our GP1200R
- Location
- Ontario, Canada
I definitely miss the days of variety and performance parts competition. Westcoast, PJS, Coffman, R&D which sadly just recently folded...it would be nice to see those names make a return to the market. They all had patents and pipes. It would be really nice to see an updated Coffman Sizzler specifically meant for a freeride oriented 701. I can say that from experience the casting tooling does cost some good money but the actual alluminum/alloy casting process (which I do at my current job) is not hard to do at all, and it's not that time consuming. With today's alloys and refined casting practices, porosity is an extremely rare occurrence. Every once in a blue moon we will get a little trapped air bubble in a cast but that has only happened twice in the last two years of doing hundreds of casts. The biggest concerns are getting the alloy on spec which is a matter of just knowing the job, and having a good OES to analyze the samples before casting if it's an essential requirement. Otherwise a good and experienced foundry tech should be able to get an alloy very close to spec by just knowing the alloy series, volume of aluminum, grade of aluminum such as commercial pure or super pure, and having a predetermined recipe of elements to add. It's really not that difficult a thing to do when you know what you're doing 
Quinc
Buy a Superjet
- Location
- California
There is a guy in CA casting and selling PJS parts for the kawas. Great prices too.
I definitely miss the days of variety and performance parts competition. Westcoast, PJS, Coffman, R&D which sadly just recently folded...it would be nice to see those names make a return to the market. They all had patents and pipes. It would be really nice to see an updated Coffman Sizzler specifically meant for a freeride oriented 701. I can say that from experience the casting tooling does cost some good money but the actual alluminum/alloy casting process (which I do at my current job) is not hard to do at all, and it's not that time consuming. With today's alloys and refined casting practices, porosity is an extremely rare occurrence. Every once in a blue moon we will get a little trapped air bubble in a cast but that has only happened twice in the last two years of doing hundreds of casts. The biggest concerns are getting the alloy on spec which is a matter of just knowing the job, and having a good OES to analyze the samples before casting if it's an essential requirement. Otherwise a good and experienced foundry tech should be able to get an alloy very close to spec by just knowing the alloy series, volume of aluminum, grade of aluminum such as commercial pure or super pure, and having a predetermined recipe of elements to add. It's really not that difficult a thing to do when you know what you're doing
It is pretty telling that we are lining up to by a choked down 650 pipe for our superjets. Bpipes are great and all just with there was more drive to produce something in the last 2 decades of tech. I think there are some on this forum smart enough not to do it : )
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