So I bought a Rickter XFR recently after owning mostly stock 550/650/750 Kawasaki’s for the past 10 years. For the price it seemed like a great deal to get into something I could start doing some tricks on while still rec riding with friends. But I’m still just getting my feet wet with modified stuff so I’ve got a few questions….
The guy that sold it to me didn’t know much about it at all, he had bought it from a guy in Havasu as a pair with a Superjet he wanted. From what he told me, the original builder bought the Blowsion Rickter kit and used a 2014 Superjet donor. That seems to check out with the amount of blowsion parts on it.
Guy that sold it to me also said it was a 760… but based on the case and cylinder it would be a 701?
62T case 61x cyl and Factory B pipe
SBN 44’s?
Not sure if it’s the stock pump off the SJ
Biggest thing right now is I was told that, based on the color of my head pipe, it’s getting too hot. Pisser water is about 120-125 at the hottest. Engine is plenty cool to touch, but our no-wake zone is 150yds so that’s after a high idle for 2-3min. But the chamber is definitely getting hot, and was starting to melt the water lines crossing over it.
It’s got single cooling, run about like this diagram but with only one inlet on the manifold. Blowsion flow control valve between T and stinger.
What I drew:
This should be plenty to cool a mostly stock engine right? The water lines are free and clear. Should I plumb in dual cooling? It’s all set up for it except for the hole being tapped into the pump. The second cooling line is capped coming out the back and into the engine compartment as well as a second pisser already installed.
Getting hot was my biggest concern. Second to that the only other problem I’m having is the engine bogs heavily when I turn hard left… doesn’t matter which way the ski is leaning. The only thing I could think of is the steering cable binding, but watching the throttle body while moving the controls it doesn’t seem to be moving at all. Any ideas?
The guy that sold it to me didn’t know much about it at all, he had bought it from a guy in Havasu as a pair with a Superjet he wanted. From what he told me, the original builder bought the Blowsion Rickter kit and used a 2014 Superjet donor. That seems to check out with the amount of blowsion parts on it.
Guy that sold it to me also said it was a 760… but based on the case and cylinder it would be a 701?
62T case 61x cyl and Factory B pipe
SBN 44’s?
Not sure if it’s the stock pump off the SJ
Biggest thing right now is I was told that, based on the color of my head pipe, it’s getting too hot. Pisser water is about 120-125 at the hottest. Engine is plenty cool to touch, but our no-wake zone is 150yds so that’s after a high idle for 2-3min. But the chamber is definitely getting hot, and was starting to melt the water lines crossing over it.
It’s got single cooling, run about like this diagram but with only one inlet on the manifold. Blowsion flow control valve between T and stinger.
What I drew:
This should be plenty to cool a mostly stock engine right? The water lines are free and clear. Should I plumb in dual cooling? It’s all set up for it except for the hole being tapped into the pump. The second cooling line is capped coming out the back and into the engine compartment as well as a second pisser already installed.
Getting hot was my biggest concern. Second to that the only other problem I’m having is the engine bogs heavily when I turn hard left… doesn’t matter which way the ski is leaning. The only thing I could think of is the steering cable binding, but watching the throttle body while moving the controls it doesn’t seem to be moving at all. Any ideas?
