Super Jet Mod advise

terryreimer

JetSkeet
I have a 01 SJ that has a speed worx dry pipe,ADA head,dual 44's and I'm always working on it,I just bought a 94 SJ with 701 that looks brand new and has single 44 carb with new B pipe and ADA girdled head....I'm thinking about swapping motors for reliability...the SN really really rips...would it be a bad idea to go to a 44 single carb 61X motor and give up the dual carb 62T ??
 

Big Kahuna

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Tuscaloosa, AL
62T is just as reliable as a 61X motor......... Back in 04 I converted my SJ to Single Carb............ I found that it worked really well........... It drank more gas............ The Carb had to be constantly fiddled with, This was a ported motor with a TLR Modified single 44. Stick with what you got, learn how to tune and maintain it........
 
I rode his ski this weekend...both of them. The 701 square with the b pipe and whatever it has done to it rips. And is 100% reliable. The RN one well not so much. It has all the goodies up you'd want but it's the loudest most obnoxious ski I've ever heard and rode in my life. In one day, we swapped bendixes, sealed the custom gas tank, took apart the cooling lines due to clogs, etc etc. When we went to take the skis to the launch, the RN wouldn't run right, I'd grab the throttle and it would wouldn't accelerate at all. I could barely get the ski to plane. The hull however is perfect, the rails re trimmed and shaved and its a beautiful hull. Everyone in our group told him just to swap the motors of the ski and put it all in the RN. Terry has no patience to broken skis hahaha and just wants something that rips and that he doesn't have to wrench on 4-5 times when riding with us.
 

Matt_E

steals hub caps from cars
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at peace
^That. And if you do just want to swap engines for reliability because you're frustrated with wrenching, do yourself a favor and do not swap components onto your one reliable engine. Because pretty soon after, you'll have two bricks.
 
I went through the exact same thing. My kid has a 93 sn, and I have an 04 rn. Both have bpipes, and aftermarket heads. The sn always ran perfectly, and really ripped. The rn always had the hood off fiddling with it. Never ran right. Sent the cylinders to jetworks, got a set of 44s from art, problem solved. Hood stays on the rn now.
 
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