I strapped mine to my expensive Mugen pipe and it worked very well with it. Tuning mine was not as finicky as tuning the Sirios and Novas that I have had in my MTX-3. I also had no issue with it when I strapped an RB pipe to it when I was breaking it in. Any other pipe, I can't answer that question. The motor was featured in one of the r/c magazines back about 8 months ago. The motor was dynoed a few months back but I can't remember the magazine it which featured the article. The one thing I do remember from the dyno test was that the numbers generated were not that far off from the Max Power .12 (don't know if the Max Power dynoed was the M Fantini version or not).