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RESTO 96 XP Resto Project: Clapped out

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racerxxx said:
Did a little body art today. I traced the XP logo's on a 95 XP I picked up and made a stencil and cut that out with a straight blade. THen I traced that on the back of carbon fiber. Then cut those out with a new straight blade. It was too much yellow on the ski and needed to break it up a bit. I only have about 2 hours wrapped up in it. It looks pretty good, I think.


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Nice work ! I REALLY LIKE THE SILVER SEAT !!!
 
Stunnerable said:
Looks fantastic!!

The Bombardier logo up front would look great along with the SEA-DOO hull logo. On top of all that, I think if you wrap the hood in cf and throw a UMI on... perfect!!

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Yeah, it's just a ton of hand cutting for the decals. I wanted to wrap the hood but I know it was gonna be way too much work so I just bought a super clean yellow hood. I still have another single gauge hood that I have a few ideas for. As for the UMI, that would be cool but out of my price range, unless someone lent me one to copy. I'm also am afraid to put one on since my kids like to ride in front. My son has his "forever" teeth, I don't need any extra dental payments.

Crofoot50 said:
Nice work ! I REALLY LIKE THE SILVER SEAT !!!
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Thanks Cro, me too--that was a score from a guy in Cali and $83 just to ship it to the east coast, on top of the purchase price. I'll say it was worth every penny since it would have costed me the same for a stock flat seat with a Jettrim or an M-Line cover. This was a buy, wait, and install the seat.
 
Well I was just looking to get another look at those fantastic hand cut decals but looks like your pics are too popular and you exceeded your bandwidth. Just open another photobucket account and dont add any other pictures to your current one. Then use you new one for all your new pictures. I had to do the same thing because I was over the limit a couple times plus I had over 3000 pictures uploaded to it. All seadoo related lol.
 
Were back up! I just used one of my other email addys. I actually had to download the pics from my one account to my PC since I transferred them from my phone to PB. Well since I did that I also upgraded from my Galaxy S2 to the Samsung Note 2 and I lost a great deal of old pics on my S2. I have this scanned in I just have to find it, not sure if I put it in my dropbox or not. It's hard to keep up.









 
I want to, but I really like the OEM decal for some reason, I still have the OEM SEADOO in the same color on the hull on the HX still so they tie together. I could do both I guess, I have the material.
 
If you like the teal, then leave it. I just did not know if you were planning on it or not. I know it has to be time consuming to do it. Either way they both look good. Any new projects coming for the winter ?
 
racerxxx said:
It crossed my mind, but I really like the 787's. The only ski if do a swap in would be an HX. I have started looking at HX's. They can be had at a fair price, should have never let my brother in laws slip away, ten hour ski garaged for $1500 on the trailer, I put 5 of the hours on it.

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By chance is your brother in law who had the HX a cop?

Nice work on cleaning the cases! What kind of bead blasting did you do? Where are you getting the engine paint from?
 
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dan87951 said:
By chance is your brother in law who had the HX a cop?

Nice work on cleaning the cases! What kind of bead blasting did you do? Where are you getting the engine paint from?
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In this link you will see the bead blaster I use at my father in laws shop. I think I switched to G4 abrasive, I used to use G2 but so many guys switched to G4 I would have to buy a pallet of G2. The G2 is pretty course, it gets the job down quick. I buy the material less than a block from his shop, it's like $15 or $20 for a 40# bag I think.

As far as paint, I get it at Pep Boys or any auto parts store that has it. It's Duplicolor Wheel paint so it can more than take the abuse of chemicals and heat. HPW100 is the white color code and HPW101 is the silver. Both are dead nuts for the Seadoo coloring--after you spray Seadoo Lube on it. The white is super bright but almonds up nicely after the SD Lube, same with the silver.

Here's where I get the media http://www.omnifinishing.com/

http://www.seadooforum.com/showthre...ct-Clapped-out&p=295157&viewfull=1#post295157
 
Looks like racer is famous lol. He made the watercraft superstore magazine 2014. Page 58

Looks familiar to me. Notice custom install reference and this started as a stock resto.

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Hi

Nice thread. Just wish I'd seen this before I started tinkering with mine as you have a lot of nice pointers.
Incidentally if you hadn't looked at it I would have missed it as it would have been a way down the list.
 
rhonus said:
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Nice thread. Just wish I'd seen this before I started tinkering with mine as you have a lot of nice pointers.
Incidentally if you hadn't looked at it I would have missed it as it would have been a way down the list.
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Glad you like the thread and are getting some info from it, some guys like to read about stuff rather than asking questions. I think it's nice to share and document a ski from beginning to end. Good luck with your ski.
 
absolutely amazing restore project. I just picked up 2 ski's and am going to restore one of them. The other I'm just flipping. Now if I could just quite reading all of your restoration projects I could actually go out and get some work done on my ski's lol

great work. Love the retro look, wish my new old ski's had the factory stickers still.
 
Great thread, just finished reading through it. Amazing restoration. Love the seat. Wish I could find one similar!
 
Lol someone marked post 353 not helpful. I love those notifications where I am completely stumped. I am sure someone was scrollong on an Ipad and clicked it. Maybe there should be a confirmation when marking something helpful or not.
 
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