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RE: Jetpro pipe for baja 5b - 6/10/2006 8:06:47 PM   
marcuskeeler



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Well, where do I start? This is my opinion.

It's the most ugly thing I ever saw and it's incredible that anybody would drop coin on one. Whether it works or not is academic. It's like fitting a 300ft tall wind generator on an electric 1:1 car - It would work but why would you?

I never saw anybody cobble omething together (or adapt an existing product) as quickly and it's obvious that these guys are desperately trying to get on the Baja bandwagon before the X-Can makers get a grip.

Honestly, it's laughable

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RE: Jetpro pipe for baja 5b - 6/10/2006 8:17:40 PM   
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Status: offline 		Please forgive me,when you said "load of crap"i thought you were talking about my response to that bugle looking thing on the back of the baja.Anyway,i agree with you on the pipe.I ordered my X-CAN last week.
We are both on the same page.No prob.

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RE: Jetpro pipe for baja 5b - 6/10/2006 8:19:22 PM   
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Status: offline 		HPI should have flipped the engine around 180* to allow all the differnt varities of pipes curenttly available on the market a chance to intergrate with the Baja5......Now looks like this may be a design flaw... how is a tunedpipe going to fit???

Well you can mount it on the side or straight out the back

The X-can is not a Tunedpipe and wont unleash the engines full potential.





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RE: Jetpro pipe for baja 5b - 6/10/2006 8:27:45 PM   
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Status: offline 		In my opinion, that appears to be real old school or like an old dog not wanting to learn new tricks. For that matter, R/Cs probably wouldn't be around and option parts companies wouldn't be making new products if everything stayed the same. Or even "real" full-size car companies. Technology changes and simply put, if one doesn't like it, don't purchase it. After all, some apparently don't need "tuned pipes" since according to some, certain parts for certain brands is only about customization. It's also truely amazing how many design engineers are on this forum though they can't spell or use a spell check from time to time.

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RE: Jetpro pipe for baja 5b - 6/10/2006 8:29:21 PM   
pozze



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Status: offline 		If painted black, the jetpro probably wouldn't damage the design so much... Chrome is just wrong here!

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RE: Jetpro pipe for baja 5b - 6/10/2006 8:30:45 PM   
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It's also truely amazing how many design engineers are on this forum though they can't spell or use a spell check from time to time.



Thats what the edit buttons for


Alls I'm saying is produce NEW vehicles that intergrate some of the current market parts.. this will in turn help the entire industry

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RE: Jetpro pipe for baja 5b - 6/10/2006 8:55:29 PM   
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also truely amazing how many design engineers are on this forum though they can't spell or use a spell check from time to time.



You don't have to be any kind of engineer to critisize that pipe.You know as well as many others that the pipe is not gonna work off road

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RE: Jetpro pipe for baja 5b - 6/10/2006 8:58:23 PM   
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Status: offline 		theres already 6 companies doing that, the 7th is just another look of the same ole same ole. i say THUMBS UP for the new designg. Today the 1/5th Buggy, Tomorrow the 1/5 MT or F1 or Beatle> ROCK ON HPI!
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I think that was inteded for the NAYSAYERS. i mean at least we ALL AGREE that pipe just ISNT for the Baja.

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RE: Jetpro pipe for baja 5b - 6/10/2006 9:25:03 PM   
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i say THUMBS UP for the new designg.
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I think that was inteded for the NAYSAYERS. i mean at least we ALL AGREE that pipe just ISNT for the Baja.

I agree or at least it probably won't work for my application even if my comment wasn't as obvious to some.

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RE: Jetpro pipe for baja 5b - 6/10/2006 9:49:09 PM   
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RE: Jetpro pipe for baja 5b - 6/10/2006 10:32:09 PM   
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RE: Jetpro pipe for baja 5b - 6/10/2006 11:27:55 PM   
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RE: Jetpro pipe for baja 5b - 6/11/2006 2:14:27 AM   
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Status: offline 		Does NE1 Know if "JEMCO" makes pipes for for smaller type engines?cause if they were willing too make something that would be trip, I have a "Jemco" race pipe on my NSR and it rocks, but the place where I got it from I do not have the Phne# any more

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RE: Jetpro pipe for baja 5b - 6/11/2006 4:19:35 AM   
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Status: offline 		Wow, that was quick Oneill ! Congrats on getting something out of the oven so quickly.

Well I have to say that while it may take away from the look, I don’t think we are going to find any pipe that will not do the same. You have a full scale looking buggy and you have to fit a large over grown chrome snail to the exhaust. There are not a lot of options here.

If I know Oneill and if I know R/C customers, they will be buying a pipe no matter what it looks like and some times no matter how well it works.

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RE: Jetpro pipe for baja 5b - 6/11/2006 1:17:42 PM   
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Wow, that was quick Oneill ! Congrats on getting something out of the oven so quickly.

Well I have to say that while it may take away from the look, I don’t think we are going to find any pipe that will not do the same. You have a full scale looking buggy and you have to fit a large over grown chrome snail to the exhaust. There are not a lot of options here.

If I know Oneill and if I know R/C customers, they will be buying a pipe no matter what it looks like and some times no matter how well it works.

Mark Hull



Agreed, function before style


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