Buying used Seadoo challenger 80HP single engine. NEED ADVISE!

[Kasai]

Hi!

I am considering buying a used seadoo challenger 14 ft, 1998, 80 HP, single Rotax bombardier engine.

Any recomendations, would this boat last or are there usually trouble with engines or other things. I have to buy it unseen as it is wery far from where I live. And I am off course worried that something will break.

It is in running conditions with new carburettors.

Anyone have any experience with this model???

Mvh

Kasai

 

[ssmedt]

what are you planning on doing with it; with just the single 717cc it will be a dog in the water and will have trouble pulling people (well it will be fine with tubes) i would say if you want a single engine get a 110hp 787cc motor. how much are they asking; do you have a link?

 

[scooper77515]

Did they even put the 717 in the 98? Double check that it isn't the 787 which is 110 hp. Fun little boat, then.

 

[WaveShredder9110]

Maybe he meant a Sportster.

 

[Kasai]

Link for boat add:
http://www.finn.no/finn/boat/object?finnkode=18304605

This is in Norway so its quite hard to translate the price.
Seadoo's are genrally more expencive here and there are not so many.

It might be an 97 mod.
Definitly 80 hp

Hoping to use it for wake.
I'm a beginner so I hope that I can start out with this boat.

Does anyone know if its possible to change to a bigger engine
or possibly have links on ebay to a bigger engine that fits.
There was no manual with the boat so I dont really know what to search for.
Is "717" the type of engine I would be looking for?

 

[cjb]

Thats not a 717... that’s a 787 110hp. I dont know if it will be enough to wake with it. Tubing yes wake youll have to try it before you buy it.

 

[ssmedt]

:agree: that is the 110 hp 787cc rotax; but just try it before you buy it; i always get a little nervus when i see strange things done to these engines and those crazy air-filters are very strange

edit: just noticed there is a picture in the ad of him subbing it; make sure to have it check out by a mechanic before you buy; that is very hard on the drivetrain so he probably ran that boat pretty hard