2020 STX-310LX (PROTOTYPE)
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In March 2020 when the world was at it's knee's and everybody was closing their doors, staying home and trying to make it big on TikTok, We decided to stay open (as an essentail mechanical service) and do something with our time.
Now a few years prior we built a Frankenstein STX15F with a 250X motor shoehorned into it. It was a ski that looked terrible but when you pulled the throttle it stood up and launched into the air giving the rider the feeling of a wheelstanding superbike.
We mothballed it as we knew we physically couldn't fit a 310 motor into this hull, but the idea never left our minds.
October 2019, Jamie was in the USA for the launch of the all new STX-160. He took his tape measure with him and when no one was looking stuck his head and phone in there and took some very important measurements. (It was going to fit)
Our STX's arrived in Australia Early 2020, just prior to Covid becoming a big deal. By March it was here and the shutdowns began. We stayed open and used this downtime to finally make this happen.
We studied the service manuals of both the 2019 Ultra 310LX and the 2020 STX-160X outlaid the wiring plans to make sure we weren't going to miss anything.
First things first, we uncrated a brand spanking new 2020 STX-160LX, removed the seats and yanked that motor, dashboard, exhaust system, running gear & jetpump out of there.
We were left with a bare hull, keeping just the fuel tank, and handlebar controls.
Next we pulled apart our 2019 Demo Kawasaki Ultra 310LX, and fitted those parts directly into the stx hull. We needed only a few minor parts to be custom made (pump shoe, air filter mounts and some silicone pipes), we used a ultra 300 exhaust system. The dash cluster bolted straight in and then we changed the connector over to retain the fly by wire throttle (which we later scraped in favour of the ultra 310 cable unit that wasn't so touchy)
We bolted it all together, wired it up (and yep we even got the OEM stereo to work).
We all drove down to the local creek and took turns running it in on the SLO key eager to see what this could do. After 2hrs of being extremely nice to it, Jamie jumped on and did his very first WOT pass. 128kph.... Wowsers. Stock everything with only a delimiter in the ECU. Insert Tune. 131kph (80mph baby)
We did it, a STX310 that easily touches the high 70's and in the perfect conditions goes over the magic 80. We gave it the Kspeed treatement. Kspeed ride plate, Kspeed intake grate, Kspeed sponsons, Kspeed cool air intake. Kspeed 108mm pulley, Now it handled like it was on rails and hooked up far better. Acceleration from 20-30kph was insane but getting it off the mark proved a little trouble some, so we took the pulley back off and that made it more pleasant to ride.
Jamie has entered this ski in a few QPWC closed course events and it's held it's own.
We have left Jamie's 888 racing numbers on the side for now as he really doesn't want to part with it, but for the right money you can own this one of a kind Prototype Jetski thats been seen by people all over the world and featured in the "The Watercraft Journal"
https://watercraftjournal.com/gallery-testing-kspeeds-80mph-2020-kawasaki-stx-310lx-prototype/
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