Super Jet Bought my first Jetski :)

[Vumad]

1st I've seen your thread...

The SXR carves better because it is made for racing. It is a much larger and heavier hull with a different design to the bottom which makes it carve hard. The SJ is designed in a way that makes it slippery and is better for freestyle. If you want to carve harder, bolt on some tubbies and get an extended ride plate. Don't expect to carve like an SXR ever.

I would imagine it would be easy to tear a rotator cuff, weaken or over stretch your ligaments or muscles, or pull your spine out of alignment. All of these issues can cause pain and/or put excessive pressure on nerves. You should most certainly let go when you are riding. Riding at slow speeds in the surf is a good time to hold on so your ski does not get pushed away. Holding on during a fall at WOT is absolutely foolish. I fight to keep the ski up in a fall so the speed decreases before I fall, then I jump off fred flintstone style to slow myself down more, and then allow the water to pull me back to behind the tray. This reduces the pressure placed on my arms and allows me to keep the ski closer to me. However, if the speed is too fast and I can't prepare for a fall, I simply let go, or hang on only to let the bars slide out of my fingers to help slow it down some. Death gripping for high speed falls will eventually injure you.

Some smoke is normal. he machine is a 2-stroke. It has incomplete combustion as well as burning oil with the fuel. This is why the EPA is forcing out 2-stroke machines. They polute more than 4-strokes. You will commonly see oil/gas on the water and smoke from the exhaust with your ski. It smokes more just after start up because the engine is cool and the combustion is more incomplete. Combustion is more complete and smoke decreases as the ski reaches operating temperature. Also, the water and air break up the smoke, so it is much more aparent out of the water. 50:1 is the correct mixture for a stock ski.

 

[Vumad]

In response you your questions about steering, just like when you fall, it's up to your personal preferances and riding style. Again, I can only tell you how I do it.

I learned to wakeboard and water ski before I moved to Jet Skis. I ride a jet ski like it is wakeboard or water skis. My surf stance is my left foot forward at about 60 degrees with my toes pressed up against the bulk head. My right foot is at 90 degrees and is on top of the wedge on the very back of the ski. This stance gives me the ability to provide pressure to all 4 corners of the tray. I turn more at the waist than the hips, so my chest is facing more forward and my hips are facing more sideways. I keep the pole anywhere b/t my waist and my chest. This feels very natural for me. In turns, I turn like a wakeboard, so it's like there is a pole going down through my back into the ski, I lean at the same angle I lean the ski. More speed gets more lean, and throttle is added or lessened to balance the lean. The harder I turn, the more I plant my back foot, forcing the pump to stay hooked up. As i complete the turn, I shift the weight onto my front foot and into the pole, and throttle at a rate that will prevent the ski from hoping out of the water. I use this same technique no matter how I turn, if it's 50' 90* turn or a 5' 180*, it just works for me.

I also ride feet back, like water skis. I do not have foot holds, but I jump with both feet back, side by side, heels on or near the wedge. When I jump, I push my feet into the pad on gunwhale, and lift up with my shoes during the jump (I wear sneekers). I can turn in a 5' radius at 180* like this at well, usually I squat a bit and hold the pole almost as low as my knees, and use a lot less lean. I cannot use this technique while making high speed turns, but it works for setting up a wake, despite my timing still sucks.

 

[RedTurboMr2]

Thanks for the reply, as for riding, i figured it out. I can throw the machine around very easy now.
As for the injury, i'm also thinking that it's a tore rotator cuff , sucks since it's both arms If/when i fall, i still hang on, but i figured out a way to do it safely now. I've never fell at wot, but i'm sure if i ever do, i'll definitely let go. I had this injury roughly a month after owning it, and i think it happened during a turn. It's been two months since the day this happened. I've been taking it easy for the last couple months, haven't been riding much, but last night at work, i guess i was putting a lot of pressure on my shoulders, cause i woke up this morning in quite a bit of pain. I'm hoping this will heal over time "winter", but i doubt it, i've done a bit of research and noticed people saying that they've had a rotator cuff injury 20 years back and they're still soar.

 

[RedTurboMr2]

hey guys, i figured i'd update the thread. My shoulders are feeling better but i'm sure once i put some pressure on it again, it'll get soar, but ah well, part of the hobby. I'm currently in the process of installing the Rickter footholds. They're in, just waiting to glass them. I'm waiting for the uscomposites package to come in "tracking says tomorrow ". Then i'll be ready to install the diamond turf. I also just placed an order with blowsion for a Factory B pipe Ltd and dual cooling. I can't wait to get on the water. Are these pipes easy to tune? Is there a setting that everyone uses? Or will i have to ride/tune/ride/tune......?
Thx

 

[ISeeWetPeople]

haa haa haa =)=)=) i first had kawasaki jetski and now superjet too , 130hp honda atv, minimoto, and some field cars=)=).. know what you mean

 

[ISeeWetPeople]

Congrats on the new ski but be very careful with your new addiction. Don't let a buddy leave his ski in the garage with yours overnight. Ski's breed like rabbits and you're garage ends up looking with this...

haa haa haa =)=)=) i first had kawasaki jetski and now superjet too , 130hp honda atv, minimoto, and some field cars=)=).. know what you mean

 

[ISeeWetPeople]

hey guys, i figured i'd update the thread. My shoulders are feeling better but i'm sure once i put some pressure on it again, it'll get soar, but ah well, part of the hobby. I'm currently in the process of installing the Rickter footholds. They're in, just waiting to glass them. I'm waiting for the uscomposites package to come in "tracking says tomorrow ". Then i'll be ready to install the diamond turf. I also just placed an order with blowsion for a Factory B pipe Ltd and dual cooling. I can't wait to get on the water. Are these pipes easy to tune? Is there a setting that everyone uses? Or will i have to ride/tune/ride/tune......?
Thx

HI... i have superjet too it has over 150hp and i just installed footholds too. cant wait to get out there and ride like hell .i had kawasaki 750sx before and i had footholds on it and it was like jetski comes part of you.. so i cant wait to drive whit that much power and control my ski=) but here our lakes are still frozen=(
ocean are open but soooo cold. i hurt my shoulder when i drive snowmobile too deap ditch and i pull very hard on my left arm and right arm on trottle..that was 1 month ago. i can stil drive normal ride whit snowmobile but when i do wheelie and come down my body weight is on my arms then it hurts.. i hope it gets better before summer i really do

 

[RedTurboMr2]

Lil update, yesterday i put down my first ever layer of fiberglass down, was very nervous, scared of it hardening too fast, but it went down very well Today I went to my parents place to go check out the first layer, and it turned out very nice. I did some sanding to smoothin everything out. I can't believe how awesome this stuff is. I'm very anal about stuff i do, and take my time to make everything perfect. I kept telling myself that it's all gonna get covered with turf, but i think i still wasted a solid two hours sanding around the footholds and between them. I actually stopped because my fingers hurt "no more fingerprints" lol. I'm gonna get back at er on friday "since it's a holiday". Gonna probably do a lil more sanding, then lay down another layer of 8.5 oz. I wanted to take some pics, but i left my phone at my place and i don't have my camera at the moment. I'll take some on friday. These footholds are gonna look like they were there from the factory. I'm pretty impressed with how things turned out.

I'm hoping to have the turf done on the weekend, since next week i'll be installing the b-pipe. I also purchased a wamiltons 8 handhold hood, should have it painted a cpl days after i get it. I can't wait to ride

 

[RedTurboMr2]

Atually, here's a couple pics that i had on my phone from last week.

 

[RedTurboMr2]

Kind of hard to tell from the pictures, but these footholds fit 99% perfect, so perfect that i can't use 2 part foam. Like i said before, i'm very anal when i do things, I used a technique that takes a long time but turns out perfect at the end. What i did was, colored the back of the footholds with led from a pencil, and kept pressing it against the foam, it shows you all the high spots, sand the led and keep repeating the process till the foam is covered with led

 

[RedTurboMr2]

Two layers of 8.5 oz, i had a lil extra so i put some in between the footholds. I hope i have time this week to do the turf, i wanna go riding

 

[RedTurboMr2]

Had a lil spare time this morning, so i figured i'd start on the turf.

 

[GimpedT]

Thats going to look awesome! I love 08+ super jets. That color hydro turf is going to be sweet!

 

[RedTurboMr2]

I turfed the other gunwale, dashboard, and installed the padding in tray. i didn't install the padding on the bottom of the footholds, i just roughly cut them and placed them there, i need to install the padding and turf on the top first since it needs to go behind the turf on the bottom of the footholds for a clean install. Here's a pic

I also received my package from blowsion today

New Factory B Pipe with dual cooling

 

[RedTurboMr2]

Had some more time this morning to finish turfing the tray and footholds, all i have left to do is the rails. Then i'll start installing the pipe. On monday, i should have the hood, gonna prep it for paint.

 

[Owen18]

Hey man, ski looks great! Glad your liking freestyle jetskiing.
You really want a Rickter? I have no idea, just seems the riding you do, the ski you have in perfect! Such an awesome superjet for most flatwater tricks just my 0.2
Awesome build and let me know in the future if your looking for an AM hull, BOB's are better than Ricketrs anyway

 

[RedTurboMr2]

Finished up the turf today, i'm happy to be done

 

[RedTurboMr2]

Hey man, ski looks great! Glad your liking freestyle jetskiing.
You really want a Rickter? I have no idea, just seems the riding you do, the ski you have in perfect! Such an awesome superjet for most flatwater tricks just my 0.2
Awesome build and let me know in the future if your looking for an AM hull, BOB's are better than Ricketrs anyway

I think i'm gonna be going with a superfreak instead of the Rickter. But for now, i'm gonna stick with the superjet. Eventually get a Dasa engine, then an am hull.

 

[Owen18]

Haha alright

 

[RedTurboMr2]

Installed the b pipe today hopefully i'll have time tomorrow to take the carbs out and change the jets.

I also put the wamiltons hood on to see how it fits, and i'm wondering if this is normal. It's kinda hard to see with these sh*tty pictures, but it's all i have right now, i'm hoping to get my rebel back tomorrow, my buddy borrowed it for his trip.

The first pic is from the front, why aren't the gaps the same on both sides?

And this pic shows the sides. Is it normal to see the seal?

I couldn't put the nose piece on, it doesn't fit around the stock mount. Maybe if i take the mount off, install the nose piece, then re-install the mount. But who cares, i bought custom rrp poles from OptimaRacing He told me it could take several weeks since i'm getting them painted. He's anodizing the poles blue and powdercoating the ends white.