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According to Gary Watson, new owner of Worx in Australia “WORX Yamaha VXR Sponsons NOW IN STOCK $AU 270! Angled to perfection our VXR Sponsons reduce drag and create stability in all water conditions. RACE PROVEN in closed course, ocean and enduro racing WORX works!” Hopefully we will get a picture od those on a ski.

This is not a joke. It is a special unit prepared by Sydney Sea-Doo Performance. “This is a 300HP upgrade model using factory parts through our sister company Sydney SEA-DOO performance.” According to James Masterton of Sydney Sea-Doo it has a 12month warranty, not the factory two year warranty that is standard with 260 OEM model.

Factory Zero's wide all terrain turf tires. This photo shows how the company carries out the fatigue tests on each special wheels with the needle bearings. This wood boat is Sabani of Okinawa. The photo was published on FB by Yusuke Imaizumi, owner of company.

The illustrated Rotrex Supercharger kit was set up in Greece by CRP Limited on a Kawasaki 250X. The particular kit consists of: Rotrex C30 Supercharger, Rotrex pulley, Supercharger bracket, belt tensioner, watercooled Oil cooler, air filter, cooling lines, air/cooler and Intercooler lines, Intercooler, intercooler brackets, HKS automatic blow-ff valve, intake and fuel injection hoses. The particular kit has been used only during the developing of this project and it has never been used in racing. It can be fit directly without the need of any extra brackets or hoses. It can operate safely from 14psi of boost pressure to 20psi with a limit to 24psi depending on the engine’s modifications. It costs 4.000euro and it is available from CRP Limited on +306977-838665.

Japanese Freestyle ace and guru engineer Hiroyuki Ogino is selling his X-2 ehich is specifically prepared and tuned for Freestyle use. Price is US $33,000 and among the goods that it is equipped are: Lightweight hull, SE handle mount, Fat bar, Carbon front cover, DASA PV cylinder, 89mm pistons, +5mm 79mm crankshaft, total displacement of 982cc, 160mm SkatTrak setback pump, Rickter FlowGuard., MSD total loss, small gas tank, Power Factor Pipe and 49 mm of SE carburetors.

While Kawasaki was working countless hours prior launching the legendary Jet Ski SJ400 at the same time the company was working on some special projects. Some of those skis never hit the market or even the production line. We present exclusively some of those models and some early prototypes in the story published on Vintage Jet Ski section.