Update time!
So I have decided to slowly build a B pipe over the off season. My favorite pipe has temporarily taken a self destruct leave of absence lol. As noted in earlier posts I have been fighting with coupler issues this year with my Speedwerx pipe. Well, about a month ago the gremlin finally surfaced. First I must say I am quite happy to have bought my Coffman Sizzler as a backup. It held me over up to now. But it's time to move onto B pipe territory
Getting back on track with my beloved dry pipe though, I spent a few good hours really thoroughly examining it and have found that the needed modification work done to it was not quite enough. I still do not understand why it took about 2 years for the pipe to suddenly start blowing couplers, but now I can correct the rest of the issues. So as mentioned, the pope was slotted at the Lord mount locations and I figured that all the needed work was already done. I have never had any issues with getting it set up before. In fact it always went in quite well. This past Sunday though I decided to devote a good part of the day into figuring out what was the issue. It appears that the angle of the stinger outlet is up a few degrees too many. I have read about this in the past but was not sure what exactly they were referring to and given the slotted mounting locations, I assumed this was nothing to be concerned about or it would have been corrected.
When setting the pipe up without the coupler installed I was able to see now why the couplers were blowing up. The outlet had enough force from the hose against it pushing t down that it was pulling the pipe away from the manifold opening an excessive air space inside always blowing out the coupler on the bottom. The force against the spigot going into the manifold was actually severe enough that it destroyed the spigot, tore it half off. See the photos? Yup, so that just happened on my last ride with it.
