Lebo

What about the length of your cut down spring? It may be too short.

Well, the spring has a tiny bit of pre-compression when fully assembled, but there is some space (about 1/2 an inch) on the plunger rod the spring does not take up.

It could be that your darts are vacuum loading, I had this problem with my couplered NF.

Trust me, my seal is so bad vacuum loading would be nothing short of a miracle. Plus, I load my darts into the barrel, then attach it to the coupler.

Sometimes with stock darts, more power can make them get worse ranges. Are the darts spinning out or flying straight? If they are flying straight, the above suggestions are probably true.

Yeah, thats the problem I get. My stefans shoot fine, just not as far as I would like them to, but stock darts start to spin after about 20 feet.

You sure you lubed it? ALL the way?

You are probably using the wrong size washer. The washer's total diameter should be about the same size as the outer diameter of the pipe, at least for the medium-size PVC plungertubes. That means that it will touch the walls, and will have a bit more material to warp, so that it has a centimeter or so of actual contact with the walls.

ahh I'm such a noob. I had not lubed the plunger enough but now that I have it is firing much faster and maintaining an awesome seal. Thank you VERY much Exo

. I also wanted to mention, eventually i will be doing a titan mod, maybe one day a video for my ssbp. Any ideas and reccomendations are welcome and i will look into a homemade soon

Hey man! Welcome! I know that might seem weird coming from me, seeing that I am a FNG, but hey, just trying to be polite! I like you paint jobs a lot, there really clean. What kind of homemade were you gonna try, and are you new to homemades?

- Nice meeting you
Lebo