Freestyle Blunder Jet

Quinc

Quinc

Buy a Superjet
Location
California
He took the ski back to Laserjet headquarters and presented his disappointment to the creater and owner of laserjet Al Mardikian. Al then challenged him to a freestyle competition to prove the laserjet is and always will be the greatest watercraft ever built. The compeition was fierce, Aqualic pulled off multiple submarines, and 180 nose stabs finishing off with one of the greatest bulldogs ever seen. However, after all that Al completed the first ever flat water back flip on a bone stock Laserjet winning the competition. After Al's triumphet victory; Aquaholic went on a quest to build and ride the best jetskis that would ever grace the warm waters of San Diego. He has since built the RicktZilla and The "550" Beast. However, as amazing as Aquaholics skis are they still do not have Solar Panels. So Al aka Laserjet wins again.
 
CD155MX

CD155MX

Squirrel!!!
Location
Alta Loma, CA
Quinc said:
He took the ski back to Laserjet headquarters and presented his disappointment to the creater and owner of laserjet Al Mardikian. Al then challenged him to a freestyle competition to prove the laserjet is and always will be the greatest watercraft ever built. The compeition was fierce, Aqualic pulled off multiple submarines, and 180 nose stabs finishing off with one of the greatest bulldogs ever seen. However, after all that Al completed the first ever flat water back flip on a bone stock Laserjet winning the competition. After Al's triumphet victory; Aquaholic went on a quest to build and ride the best jetskis that would ever grace the warm waters of San Diego. He has since built the RicktZilla and The "550" Beast. However, as amazing as Aquaholics skis are they still do not have Solar Panels. So Al aka Laserjet wins again.
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@Quinc wins X-h20 for the day. :)
 
rubbertoe

rubbertoe

X-H20 certified
Location
San Diego
Well solar came out in the 80's big time ,but the technology wasn't refined as it to todays standards , most ended up removing from households roof tops twenty some odd years later to modern day systems that work efficiently with less issues .Fast forward to current its almost required in some states.But dont want to say to much about the "Tesla" projects Aqua has been mulling around with in his "Bat Cave" .I mean its like area 54, Ski that drives it self ,Dunno??? that guy never ceases to amaze ...
 
cudaben

cudaben

Location
V-town
Lol, not sure it's a bad thing. Here in the bay area after pg&e was deemed responsible for some of the fires last year they now turn the power off when ever its windy... solar would be awesome along with a power wall. F OFF PG&E!!!
They have a huge fine and owe lots of money, they even talked bankruptcy. Now they are just saying our rates will increase a lot. When it's hot and I run ac for more than a few days my electricity bill hits $400 no problem. 2 bed 1 bath house. 1000 sq ft.

Back to the real problem at hand...
Where the hell is the finish of this story!??!?!?!?
 
WFO Speedracer

WFO Speedracer

A lifetime ban is like a lifetime warranty !
Location
Alabama
Just wasted a lot of time going through this thread, I skipped most of it and just looked at the OP's posts. I also own one but I only paid $300 for mine, It was a dealer demo at the shop I worked at , it had a brand new hull with a brand new engine I built under warranty.

I got my moneys worth out of it , rode it a few years then disassembled it, sold he engine for $600, the pump for $200, the pipe for $200, the ride plate for $50 and the intake grate for $25. the hull was not properly bonded and It came apart in two pieces in about 15 minutes with a big Snap on screwdriver.

I actually like the handling and decided to fix the hull, I grafted in a carbon fiber 650 pump tunnel, a 650 driveshaft and through hull bearing and at some point I will finish it out with a 750 big pin engine. The main problem with this ski other than the complete lack of any bottom end power was the engine placement, way forward , good for carving bouys , bad for anything else, I believe I moved the engine back a full 7 inches in total.
 
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mbrick

mbrick

Location
Los Gatos, CA
WFO Speedracer said:
Just wasted a lot of time going through this thread, I skipped most of it and just looked at the OP's posts. I also own one but I only paid $300 for mine, It was a dealer demo at the shop I worked at , it had a brand new hull with a brand new engine I built under warranty.

I got my moneys worth out of it , rode it a few years then disassembled it, sold he engine for $600, the pump for $200, the pipe for $200, the ride plate for $50 and the intake grate for $25. the hull was not properly bonded and It came apart in two pieces in about 15 minutes with a big Snap on screwdriver.

I actually like the handling and decided to fix the hull, I grafted in a carbon fiber 650 pump tunnel, a 650 driveshaft and through hull bearing and at some point I will finish it out with a 750 big pin engine. The main problem with this ski other than the complete lack of any bottom end power was the engine placement, way forward , good for carving bouys , bad for anything else, I believe I moved the engine back a full 7 inches in total.
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Welcome to the party. Maybe you can finish writing what OP started?
 
WFO Speedracer

WFO Speedracer

A lifetime ban is like a lifetime warranty !
Location
Alabama
My take on these skis was Alex Markidian had some great ideas and concepts, he was great at marketing and getting investors onboard, what he didn't have was workforce to produce a first class ski, so he outsourced a lot of stuff, the HYDROSKI had a Cayuna snowmobile engine or I believe you could buy just the hull and transplant your Kawi stuff into it, then they came out with the Thunderjet skis i 1992 . He had someone make the hulls and PJS supplied the engines, electronics and jet pumps,

The 92 hulls were all bad the bulkheads were weak and the 440 pump loaded the driveshaft and pushed against it hard enough to separate the bulkhead, also they were shipped without rev limiters , our first demo ski grenaded with just a few hours of run time on it, that is the engine and ski I ended up with but the engine was rebuilt by me and the hull was brand new. The 93 hulls were upgraded and no longer had the bulkhead separation issue. They designed a bulkhead brace to fix the issue wit the hull but it was too little too late, they could not. take the financial hit and went under. The bulkhead brace is seen in the pic below, I just sold one in December.
 

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Sanoman

Sanoman

AbouttoKrash
Location
NE Tenn
WFO Speedracer said:
My take on these skis was Alex Markidian had some great ideas and concepts, he was great at marketing and getting investors onboard, what he didn't have was workforce to produce a first class ski, so he outsourced a lot of stuff, the HYDROSKI had a Cayuna snowmobile engine or I believe you could buy just the hull and transplant your Kawi stuff into it, then they came out with the Thunderjet skis i 1992 . He had someone make the hulls and PJS supplied the engines, electronics and jet pumps,

The 92 hulls were all bad the bulkheads were weak and the 440 pump loaded the driveshaft and pushed against it hard enough to separate the bulkhead, also they were shipped without rev limiters , our first demo ski grenaded with just a few hours of run time on it, that is the engine and ski I ended up with but the engine was rebuilt by me and the hull was brand new. The 93 hulls were upgraded and no longer had the bulkhead separation issue. They designed a bulkhead brace to fix the issue wit the hull but it was too little too late, they could not. take the financial hit and went under. The bulkhead brace is seen in the pic below, I just sold one in December.
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Interesting story wfo! Never really knew the history behind these skis.We had one in our area years ago.Probably sitting in his basement at this point.Thanks!
 
WFO Speedracer

WFO Speedracer

A lifetime ban is like a lifetime warranty !
Location
Alabama
I am fairly knowledgeable on these skis because I worked at the dealership , I have a Thunderjet repair certification and I own one, pics of my still new in the case storage cover
 

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