Yamax2?

X2guy

X2guy

Location
Barrie, ON
thundercat said:
I have a bed plate too mount a 701 in a x-2 $200.00
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Really? I kept emailing those shin racing guys asking to buy a bed plate to save me the engineering but no one got back to me. I work for a Japanese company and asked one of the guys to read my google translated email...he told me it made no sense. Thats when I started to give up on this project and started asking why?
 
Legdragger

Legdragger

Bringing it back
Location
New Hampshire
Something is fishy with this guy.. I have never heard of such a thing existing and he happens to have one and none of us know the guy? Right..........
 
yamanube

yamanube

This Is The Way
Staff member
Location
Mandalor
Legdragger said:
Something is fishy with this guy.. I have never heard of such a thing existing and he happens to have one and none of us know the guy? Right..........
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He had another thread with it for sale for $150. He seems to spend more time over on PWCT.
 
djyox

djyox

Old school -not by choice
Location
Twincities, MN
yamanube said:
He had another thread with it for sale for $150. He seems to spend more time over on PWCT.
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But a picture for an item that is for sale shouldn't be out of the question... If I knew the guy was ligit and had what he says he has, I would be all over it...

AND I would lend it to one of you builder guys to make some copys or what ever needed to help others get a lovely 701 in their X-2...
 
Legdragger

Legdragger

Bringing it back
Location
New Hampshire
Those things will sell like hotcakes if they work. Can you show a picture of a motor in a hull with one? I will sign up for one if they work. Then I will be getting a Tim Judge 5mm lamey to go in it!
 
WFO Speedracer

WFO Speedracer

A lifetime ban is like a lifetime warranty !
Location
Alabama
Legdragger said:
Those things will sell like hotcakes if they work. Can you show a picture of a motor in a hull with one? I will sign up for one if they work. Then I will be getting a Tim Judge 5mm lamey to go in it!
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You know you say that but in actuality when a company does come out with something like this it doesn't sell,IE the R&d pump cone-big hub conversion.I think as a whole the X2 riders are thrifty,there are some out there that will spend whatever to have the best of the best but X2 riders in general are a sub section of a sub section of a sub section and the guys who want a Yamaha engine in their X2 are a sub section of that group.
 
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Vumad

Vumad

Super Hero, with a cape!
Location
St. Pete, FL
Why would you build a yamaha out of a Kawi? The 750 can hit hard enough. I would venture to say that if people want a yamaha engine that bad, they will go the route of a SJ conversion ski and same themselves a lot of aggrivation and money.

It would be like this... If your going to "upgrade" to a yamaha powerplant, then you're probably going to want to "upgrade" to a yamaha drive line, then you're probably going to want to "upgrade" to that super nice Yamaha bottom deck. Not much of an X2 anymore...
 
Legdragger

Legdragger

Bringing it back
Location
New Hampshire
It would make it easier for a Yamaha guy to retrofit all his Yamaha parts if he wanted to play around with an X2 and not have to start a new collection of Kawasaki parts. There is no need to upgrade the pump. The 650 pump can be upgraded to an SXR prop and big hub, or you can put a 750 pump in it pretty easily and upgrade that to a big hub setup or you can go with a Kawi based Mag pump and get a legit big hub.

Overall the Kawi driveline is easier to align and cheaper to fix than the Yamaha. I have never heard of a kawi blowing drive line splines although I am sure anything can fail.
 
2

2nd nature

Location
atlanta ga
i spoke with some one thats did this mod.said it wasnt hard.. im looking for an x2 hull myself. planning on sticking a yami based motor set up in it. id like to stick my jetworks 4 mil in one.getting bored on not having a ski to fix or work on. cant figure out if its a good thing or bad.
 
wadman

wadman

wadman
Location
winsted CT
Legdragger said:
Those things will sell like hotcakes if they work. Can you show a picture of a motor in a hull with one? I will sign up for one if they work. Then I will be getting a Tim Judge 5mm lamey to go in it!
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i would take a plate too. how much is a Tim Judge 5mm lamey? i would take a plate too.
 
djyox

djyox

Old school -not by choice
Location
Twincities, MN
I would run with a yamaha motor because I'm going to be either putting money into a kawi motor, or I could put it into a yami motor.... My personal prefrence is yamaha. If I can run either, have to buy both a new motor and ebox anyhow, then why not pick what I want to run??



If you can get us some more info on those motor mount plates for the 701, let me know! Because I'm going to have to buy a 750 motor soon, and I wont waste my money on one if I can get one of these plates.... So the sooner the better!!! Don't let me buy a kawi motor.... save me... save me....
 
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thundercat

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Here's a couple of pics. I do not have a picture of the ski with the motor in it, but I ran a 750 hull with a 701 motor in it all summer. It had a mod Blaster B pipe on it. There is one mod that you will need to do to the case. You will need to shave one of the case bosses, as you can see from the picture, down other than that the plate will bolt right up to a 650 or 750 Kaw. I have done many other conversions, for example, I used an Ultra motor in a SXI Pro. So for the bad new, I am not a computer jockey so I will not be able to post a lot on this very often. If you want one PM me.
 

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