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Yeah, I remember a guy building a kawadoo featured in an issue of Splash magazine around 88 (skidoo 580 snowmobile engine with powervalves in a 550 hull). He made a titanium pole mount and bedplate for his 550, too. And an aluminum tank! He was the man. Come to think of it, he made the exhaust...

After seeing more info I'm glad to be proven wrong (although that means that someone else out there has splashed a Rickter). I'm not sure yet when my next new part will arrive, but please tear it to shreds. Your grudge against me has been going for close to 3yrs now. Commendable.

Ok, glad to see the topic cleaned up and placed here. I'll be blunt. I was harsh, and have an opinion. I had heard just a week or so before the french hull was posted here that the rickter had beed splashed, and a slightly changed version was coming. When the o.p. then claimed to have done ALL...

LOL, hey, I think you're onto something..... Sure, he put a saggy meat curtain shaped thing in the front, and reshaped the hood a little, but it's still a Rickter splash/rehash/knockoff right down to the adjustable footholds.

Nah, you'll have to copy that part yourself.

How about a lighter and stronger 750 topdeck? But if you're going that far you might as well get the whole hull kit, too. PM me for more info.

There's someone who will do it for you. I would, but I'm honestly too busy to do any more right now.

Send it to someone that does it. Give them the exact overall length, and pay roughly $100. PM me if you need more help.

The limiter should not be a bungee of any kind. The bungee tensioner should be tight enough that it stretches and reduces shock as the pole extends.

The virage I is the closest, but the electrical and cylinder heads are also completely different.

No, you can't cut and rethread the rear of the shaft. If you need to shorten a shaft that much you'll have to start over with a coucshaft, and have it made the correct length.

When I cut splines in driveshafts they barely heat up at all. Powerhouse, what length do you need? Smurf is right about the SJ shaft, but not all yam shafts are smaller. Some are larger.

A kayak would tow well, but they aren't very deep. Loading a bunch or 2gal cans in it might work out pretty well. Towing a tube might be tough. I was suprised how much drag ours produced with 60Lbs in it.

like this? It's not done yet, but looks promising.

Light it on fire! not much of a project, but it would make a good story.

Racing a seadoo HX in sport spec is the cheapest way to start racing with a chance of doing well. Spec rules limit the HX to very little mods, while the blaster is allowed $1000's in mods just to equal the class out.

C'mon, Gil's pole couldn't have been completely ruined......just stained a little. (or was it worse than we've heard?)

We had 5-10 footers in the Straights of Mackinac on Saturday. Pretty nice.

Are you kidding? I look fwd. to the day my kawasaki runs away!

The cutback prop and stubby cone are intended to improve low end hookup. At top speed neither would make much of a differance.