Customs skis' from Air Time Products (UK) - April 2006

[QJS]

We were asked to build two freestyle skis for a budding would be freestyler, he was from another country and under the age of 16 years old. We were asked to supply hard hitting freestyle skis with a realistic price tag and no fancy paint job (wanted to keep it simple and kept the OEM graphics with a few others added). Reliability was a major consideration as technical back up was limited from their own mechanics. One of the nice things about this build was we started with two brand new SJ's straight out of the crate, and did everything in one hit, it makes you realise just how much stuff from the original ski you actually throw away.
These skis don’t have the fantastic paint jobs/artwork that some of you guys have displayed on here before, but they are custom skis fully kitted out with the whole Air Time Products (http://www.atp.me.uk/) range (at time of build more parts added since these two were built).
We’ve tried to show you as much as we can without taking up the whole forum.
Some picture gaps of the build.

Ski Spec
ATP parts as follows:
Thru Hull Bilge (Scupper)
Side Exit
Freestyle Steering Nozzle
-1” Pole
Single carb
Single carb manifold
Carbon fibre pre preg hood kit
Billet Pole Bracket and hood hooks
Girdled Cylinder Head (cranking pressure 190 psi)
Footholds
Steering System
Carbon Composite Chin Pad
Hood Straps
Hood Catch
Hood Latch
Pole Extension limiter Rope
Finger Throttle
Billet Drive Couplers
Carbon Kevlar Hull Reinforcing

Engine & Drive Line
Bored nozzle (done in house)
Factory B mod pipe
Hot Products Flame arrester
Freestyle Porting (done in house)
Bored to 760 cc
Wiseco round top pistons
Crankcases ported with ATP case stuffers (done in house)
Jetinetics Total Loss ignition
13/15 Set back Freestyle impeller
ATP Pump Cone


Other parts fitted:
Hydro Turf mat kit
Work scoop
Worx ride plate
Bilge outlets
Water Bypasses
Bow Eyes
UMI Bars
ODI Grips
Bilge Pump

[QJS]

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[QJS]

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[QJS]

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[QJS]

Just thought we'd add the following as we don't think it's ever been shown on a Jet Ski forum before (I might be wrong) thought you'd find it interesting.
The following pictures show some of the process involved in making one of our (in house) Carbon Fibre pre-preg hoods.
There are more stages than this, a more detailed write up can be seen here
http://www.queenford.8m.com/hoodprepregbuild.htm more photos will be added to our website soon.
This particular hood has been built with the demands of surf riding in mind so extra layers were added, this hood and baffle bonded together weighs 9lbs.

[QJS]

more..

[SuperJETT]

bump to get on everyone's new posts

[djkorn1]

Cool stuff!! Thats the way Yamaha should make em from the factory!!
I never heard of ATP... do ya make SXR stuff?:fing02:

[Mile9c1]

a realistic price tag

So what'd the total end up at?

Nice hood :hail:

[waxhead]

awesome nice looking skis
why did you use a jetentics ignition and not one of your own

[QJS]

awesome nice looking skis
why did you use a jetentics ignition and not one of your own

At the time of this build our ignition systems were still in their testing stage so I really didn't want to put them on these skis until the units were 100%, our ignition systems came about because of the ever present supply issues with the one's we'd imported previously.
I never heard of ATP... do ya make SXR stuff?
As our interest is mostly freestyle and nearly everyone over here uses Super Jets for freestyle and SXRs for racing we currently only make a few parts for the Kwaks i.e hood latch, handlepole & steering etc.
very nice workmanship!!!
Thanks

[QJS]

Cool stuff!! Thats the way Yamaha should make em from the factory!!

They really are a pleasure to ride brand new and all kitted out (I run them in before shipping)

[orange flattop freestyler]

2 of the best looking skis ive ever seen come out of QJS mate, less is definitly more looking at those 2.

Love the whole standard graphics thing, Chris :biggrin:

Nice job mate, super clean looking inside and out, nice perpose built skis :biggrin:

Well done

[sprocketq]

Nice one chris, believe me guys these whent as good as they look.

[orange flattop freestyler]

Whats next in the ATP pipeline then Chris? "pre-preg Hull?"

Product line up is becoming very complete now :biggrin:

[kingnothing3]

Those are very clean and very nice! I like the stock apperence. That hood is awsome, I would love to have the entire hull made like that. definatly two of the cleanest skis ive seen! nice work

[SUPERJET-113]

Yes, very nice work and craftsmanship! I love that single 62T intake manifold!

Thats great starting with a new ski. You really know what your getting into and can do it up right the first time!

[SuperJETT]

I think these are really cool sleepers, and they are skis that the average rider can afford and handle. Beautiful hoods!

[Scorn800]

Hoods look real trick. I also like the sleeper look.
Props to QJS

[Mile9c1]

I think these are really cool sleepers, and they are skis that the average rider can afford

Did he post the price somewhere?

[IceRocket1286]

wow, those look amazing. I lvoe the stock look, its awesome!

[QJS]

It would be impossible for us to give you prices that were meaningful because our countries have totally different economies .Over here these skis are typical of what a good rider would end up with. They are an identical spec to the one used by one of our sponsored riders Ant "Barrel Roll" Burgess which he used to compete on and came 2nd last year in the British Championships(he came second to now World Champion Lee Stone). However very few people have the money to do it all from new and in one hit, when you do it in one hit you realise just how much we spend on these skis and thats a bit frightening.:bigeyes:

[Yamah0]

Yaa ill take two please:biggrin:

Very nice indeed Chris.. i love that hood.. looks real good and light... too bad it didnt work out for me to get that hood that time.
Anyways skis look real good.

Has the saltwater testing been done yet?? Im gonna ring u soon...:biggthumpup:

Zane...

[PancakePete]

Sweet lookin ! Nice hood !

[Highroller]

As always, Beautiful work Chris!

Chris is one of the nicest guys in the industry. I have been friends with and been doing business with him for a number of years now. His craftmanship is unbelieveable too. He is the man!

[SuperJETT]

how is buying and modding a brand new ski more affordable than buying and modding a used one?
Where did I say it was "more affordable"?

They are not Lamey powervalve 8mm strokers with Full Spectrum carbs. They are good solid 760cc setups built for reliability with all the parts needed to freestyle/ride competitively.

[yamaslut]

wow.... very nice work... Thanks a lot for posting the hood process w/ pictures... Your workmanship is awesome!!!!!!

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[Ross_C]

Great great great lookin skis!

[Waste Land]

I'm digging the carbon work on that hood!

WOW....great looking skis

[h2odesperado]

I love seein it come together!! Thats almost the best part!

[madoyster]

Nice work, a little more recognition going to the British contingent of xh2o:Banane01: :Banane01: :Banane01: :Banane01:

[QJS]

Just thought I'd show you these two Carbon Hoods (pre-preg) just back from the paintshop. The clear coat one is the one featured on our website.http://www.queenford.8m.com/hoodprepregbuild.htm