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**impy_King004** · July 19th, 10:30 PM

hey im looking for a barrel kit for my impulse. the two ive been looking at r the evil pipe and the freak kits... recomend any that u think r good.

**PaintballRemix** · July 19th, 10:40 PM

Ice is a real person, we wrote articles on pbstar.

Remix and Ice on the Freak:

The Freak Kit is an ok barrel system however, The inserts are not very well polished and bend easily. They are often inconsistant with their supposed sizes. Also the insert aren't held in place that securly and the barrel has horrible gas efficiency due to heavy porting. Rating. I tested probably 30 kits. The bore sizes were (as with almost all the freak kits i've tested) +\- .002 to .003 difference from what they stated. I never used my .679 but it was -.002 and my .682 was +.002 off, that made for a .007 gap, which in perfect paint to barrel matching it is a huge gap. Also the .689 was +.001 and the .691 was -.001 which made BOTH inserts .690. ALOT of the freaks i tested were similar to this, the .007 gap was an extreme and found it on only a couple but there were more gaps that were .004 and also alot where the bore sizes were no different between 2 different sizes. The Teardrop i have is +.002 off, so is my AA as well. I had a couple people from PBStar do this test on the freak as well with similar results.

Ice on the Evil Pipe:

yes i have also used the evil pipe kit,which I found the pipe to be overly hyped. Its hype was pushed by sponsored teams and such and it didn't perform anywhere near my expectations from the way it was described. The bores were innaccurate. I had putting it together due to the threads being slightly wrong but once i did it was on, but with innaccurate bore sizes didn't perform that great. The front was also flimsy.

Remix and Ice on CP and JT Kits:

CP Kit
- 2 piece barrel system.. Costly but well worth it.. 10 12 14 and 16" tips... .682, .685, .689, .693, and .696 bores.

Aluminum fronts and backs equal Light weight, comparable to being as light as the dye ultralights. The aluminum is of top great. Control bores so no inserts to mess with. Fronts and backs fit properly. Some systems seem to have problems with this, however CP's threading aligns perfectly. Well polished internals and clean easily when breaks occur by shooting. I average 3 shots before my accuracy kicks back in and about 5 shots before its clean. The porting is light, and very efficient. On my angel LCD I get over 200 shots more per tank than I do with a dye barrel, and over 175 more per tank than a freak kit. Similar results with CP vs Dye on a BKO, with the BKO getting about 200 more shots per tank with the CP than with the Dye. Using a micrometer and a jewler's caliper (use to measure gemstone sizes, and heads for holding stones), I measured the bore sizing. Very consistant to what is stamped. Both the micrometer and jewler's caliper are accurate up to .000000001. The CP barrels bores were accurate withing .0003 of their stamped bores, except the .696 which was .0006. Best overall barrel system I've tested to date. This is the most efficient kit I've found. It combines all assets.. light weight.. efficient.. accurate bores.. as well as good looks into 1 kit. It also comes in multiple tip colors, multiple back colors, as well as polished and satin finishes.

JT Kit
- 2 piece barrel system, 10 12 14 and 16" tips... .686, .688 and .690 bores.

Very similar to the CP. Its Lightly ported and has great efficency. Not quite as efficient as the CP kit, but its only within a few shots. This barrel kit has 2 downfalls. 1 is that its backs are rather heavy. Thats a personal preference. The other downfall is that it is only 3 controlled bores. Testing the bore sizes with a micrometer and jewler's caliper, the bore sizings were all withing .00052 of their stamped bore. Though the bores are close to their stamped reading, with only 3 bore sizes, and being only .002 apart from each other, it doesn't allow for a huge variety of paints to be used, unlike the CP. I average about 190 shots per tank more than a dye barrel with the JT's. The 2 downfalls is what keeps the CP running best, if the barrel was lighter, and had more bores available, it could possibly take the CP's #1 ranking. It comes in wide varieties of colors, as well as the avalanche series. Great Kit, but with 3 bores, its just a lacking a little. Hopefully more bores will be available in the future.

go for the cp or jt kits.

**Bose** · July 19th, 11:44 PM

ive used a 2 peice CP kit, Freak, and a pipe ill start on the CP 2 Peice Kit: it IMO is the best kit out there the only reason i dont like it is cuz it doesnt come in .691 bore. then the Freak: i hated it the bore sizes werent that good the were crappy quality and all that stuff. and now the Pipe: its a little bit better then the freak and yes it is over rated i like the look and all but the bores are just that good so...... id recomend the CP kit