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don't fall for that "multi-use" sales line. you can freeride a race ski but you cant race a freeride ski

It will be under 1100cc. The IJSBA dropped a hint in this years rule book. The mention of normally aspirated <1100cc specifically being allowed in ski lites / stock.

Can I wake surf behind it?

That video is in slow motion.

Someone who is asking you for model and year is not a good deal. They may be giving you the lowest price but you'd be better served buying from someone who is clued in to what you have going on

It all depends on what your hopes and dreams are. Anything short of a full restoration will probably leave you with never ending problems. Even in "like new" condition these skis have questionable reliability

salt water behind the fly wheel cover?

It could be one system failing or it could just be lots of wear on everything creating compounding issues. My experiences with 550s are that some of them run and some of them don't.

Yes this is a common problem on all 550s. Its 30 years old. I'm sure a few parts are beyond the factory recommended service intervals.

I would bump the N/S to a 2.0. The 1.5 is restricting fuel flow.

It's not fast enough?

Re-Install the pump. The 8/17 sounds like it should be fine. 9/17 skat is a common 750 impeller.

In some respects these 68mph 8 1/2' space age looking skis are pretty cool, but overall I think the industry is misguided. I haven't been at this that long, but to me it seems like the courses are being designed to fit the ski instead of the ski being designed to fit the courses. The classes are...

When you say skat trak and blowsion told you to "get bent" are you quoting them directly?

it fell off the tote in the garage

My stock class SXR does 54mph. The port job only cost 500.00.

I expoxied a set of tom21s, one broke, had to get the grinder out to get the mess off the sides

nice!

Work on the alignment of everything

Threads are probably damaged. I had one that was doing this once. What I did was modify the mounting bracket on the cylinder to get everything to line up better. This cut down on vibration and the threads never backed out again. I did use 100 Loctite also.