XC, one of the racers out of MN. I'd have to look back, but I think my 2012 (maybe 08?) to told us to take the pipe off and smack it around with a rubber mallet to knock crap the ceramic coating process caused off the inside of it. I always remove the pipe now and give it a few taps and a shake on new sleds.

went a bit out of my way to swing by a cemetery on my way home to pay respects...   

XC, or SX? Did it happen to a sx guy in the midwest too?  Or do we both know the same racer from my part of the country? Two production years, around a decade apart, I've had race sleds come out of the crate with large hunks of polishing media (from ceramic coating the pipe), stuck in the pipe.  They get wedged in-between the tail cone, and internal section of the stinger then come free in shipping, and when you start the sled.  Makes a mess of the engine when they get back into the combustion chamber. The most recent time I caught before starting the sled, its amazing how many times you can hit the pipe with a hammer, and rattle more of them free.

Watch the people as he is walking away, lady at 5 seconds backs up, what stinks. then the guy next to her, that's gross and the camera man says who did that.  Blonde lady runs after him yelling i will get my kids diaper bag, meet me in parking lot!!