FX-1 Thanks uncle bob! Fx1 time

[Fx1 Love/SJ Love AZ]

Before clear coat...

 

[Fx1 Love/SJ Love AZ]

That's now 18" of tray as opposed to 12". Kept a lot of meat on the tray walls still and kept it very factory looking.

 

[lamar311]

Looking sweet man...nice work there!

 

[550/440]

Sweet, progress!

 

[Fx1 Love/SJ Love AZ]

Bringing my ski home to color sand it.

Colorsanded

Putting turf on wich I rushed and still came out acceptable enough for me

Still need to trim front foothold a bit

 

[Fx1 Love/SJ Love AZ]

Wow so crazy to see all the pictures of my Ski build in one place. I am still running this ski, in fact beating on it I might say. Love it and won’t ever get rid of it, here is some more pics in its current state

 

[Fx1 Love/SJ Love AZ]

Couple more pictures. Pretty crazy once it was built and assembled I took the carb off for the first time since getting the motor from the donor ski... fuel filter was beyond clogged I don’t understand how it was ripping so hard untill it just wouldn’t get fuel on the last ride but started right up and idled back. Now it’s probably better than ever before haha. Love this ski.

 

[Fx1 Love/SJ Love AZ]

 

[Fx1/SJ AZ28]

Back from the dead, after being down about one year due to the stock 701 piston falling apart in the motor. The fx1 now has a new lease on life as far as the heartbeat goes. This ski has been my best performing motor built to date and it’s weird that’s the case as it’s a 61x/61x with just an old school twist head and a fx1 b pipe. That ski lasted me 7 years on the same topend so I was not even disappointed when it did finally let go in blythe.

today I got the motor back in the ski, put the electronics back in time and put the flywheel and bendix in. New gasket for the flywheel cover and got the electronics set back in place (front foothold covers the hardware). Ended up getting a battery in and she has spark so everything is looking good. Just waiting on a b pipe coupler brim head pipe to chamber and she will be singing once again, poor rickter is going to get even less ride time now that the old steed is back.

I truly love Yamaha fx1s and especially mine with the story it has. It’s been with me for almost a decade at this point and I would never let it go anywhere. Excited to have it back on the team ready to put in work! Only a squarenose build away from having my trifecta assembled.

 

[Fx1/SJ AZ28]

Still around and kicking, fs-1 rickter gone and gen 2 tundra aquired. Bad addiction to 250rs and especially my 3 wheeler but back to summer in AZ and riding as much as ever. Kids are riding my ski now. Rocketed roundnose hull being built to let them ride and keep up but also be able to have trim and a good floaty ski to try and get crafty off the big boat wakes in lake Havasu and even parker. I’ve been loving my fx-1 just as much or more than ever… and for that I decided to make it a fresh experience and finally do tubbies. So coming soon, tubbies on the ol same fx-1 I built. And I’ll get that RN going as well probably just document it on here as it’s only to compliment my FX-1

 

[Fx1/SJ AZ28]

Granted he was on his knees, but this was my 6 year old son who is turning 7. My 9 year old can’t touch the floor on it, but rides a Cr80… can’t wait till he comes to rip haha he’s busy staying back home and hanging out with friends. And I am okay with that too, but can’t wait to see what he can do! Also kind of crazy but we tried to have him go on my buddies square first and that ski couldn’t get the nose up with his lack of weight in the tray so it was less than ideal! The fx1 however was so forgiving and did just fine. Because of that I grabbed a Carter B rocker rn hull for my secondary ski and I’ll build and sell the square I was building for them!