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    Met and rode with Charlie Rossier

    As some of you know I have Charlie Rossier's old personal race boat from the day and I fully restored it. I have been talking with him for the last 3 years and we finally not only finished the ski be we met and he took it on the first ride. Hope you guys enjoy this one, a ton of stories
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    Is this the right oil for a 1996 SPX? So confused…

    Jesus Christ get seadoo oil and use a search next time
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    Charlie Rossier's Retired Race XP800 - Restoration

    Just need to get the other sponson back from paint and install graphics. Once thats all done she's getting filled with 110 and water tested with Charlie Rossier
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    Charlie Rossier's Retired Race XP800 - Restoration

    Progress Restored the Baker Trim - Black Powdercoat and the VTS rod was polished to a mirror finish before it was clean anodized. Slides like a dream UMIand Billet Gas Cap was powdercoated as well
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    Charlie Rossier's Retired Race XP800 - Restoration

    The rivets are zinc plated with stainless hardware so they wont rust and they wont seize onto each other. Same thing we use in the car industry. The colored lines are newly revised and im doing testing for the company We sanded it long ways so we didn't mess up the tru of the hull. Hopefully...
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    Charlie Rossier's Retired Race XP800 - Restoration

    will do check out the channel ill be posting a ton of content on this build https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa4BlFmRIu5tprDqKvhzxZw
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    Charlie Rossier's Retired Race XP800 - Restoration

    The hood was painted along with the engine and it turned out great. I sent out the exhaust, disassembled Baker trim, MSD mount, and UMI system for powder coating. While I was assembling I decided to switch everything over from machine screws to riv-nuts. This was the best decision and I love...
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    Charlie Rossier's Retired Race XP800 - Restoration

    Forgot to post Stripped hull photos Cool thing about this hull is that when you run the HIN number through the dealer it comes up as NOT FOR RESALE. Its a Seadoo Factory Hull. Very few of these are still around id imagine Anyways onto the inside Engine assembly, I refreshed everything...
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    Charlie Rossier's Retired Race XP800 - Restoration

    Stripped out the hull last week and it went off to the body shop for paint. The gauge and fuel selector holes were filled and the entire thing was shot with epoxy primer. Once the top deck was blocked out we flipped it over to begin work on the bottom. Charlie told me that the hull was trued...
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    Charlie Rossier's Retired Race XP800 - Restoration

    About 3 years ago I was going through Craigslist and stumbled upon what was said to have been Charlie Rossier's old race boat from the 90's. Through some searching on the internet I was pretty confident it wasn't BS so I went and grabbed it. After going through it and posting some photos on...
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