Hey Adrian. Thanks! I'm sure putting an 1100 in it is going to change the handling lots too 😆, and adding the front fill. I will likely have to do some further customization to make it behave. It should make for an interesting ride and fun videos :) I saw that you sent me some photos. I will have a look and respond when I have time.
Just a tip that might come in useful- You can remove paint from plastic parts by spraying them with non chlorinated brake cleaner, then sealing them in a plastic bag for about 30 minutes. The plastic won't melt, but it can dry it out a bit. One time I stripped orange vinyl paint off of an entire dashboard (vents and everything). Saved me thousands of dollars.
You never fail to amaze me with you attention to detail. Cuts look good , but I wonder how much water you'll take on when you slow down. You never told us 5 he paint colors. .. editing is spot on . Music too. I'll be looking for your next update. Two thumbs up.
Thanks Rick. I'm glad you appreciate my efforts ! I honestly don't know how it's going to affect handling, how it sits in the water or it's slow water characteristics, but these things are fairly easy to change / counteract by modifying the ride plate. I'm adding 1100 engine, and a front fill... so the handling is going to be night and day from what it was. I expect there will be some tinkering to get it to work the way I want. I really want to build an adjustable ride plate (maybe even adjustable on the fly) as a project, now that I have a welder. I also want to make some adjustable sponsons and play with them to see how it changes the handling. Many of the SX, SXi and SR-X skis have extended ride plates and even body extensions as they tend to porpoise really bad. Paint colors ... It's not that simple lol. Dead rat flat black, mixed with a silver metallic flake. Clear coat over most of the black with a green candy mixed in the clear. Silver metallic (possibly) for graphics. Then the visible part of the hull below the bond line in the same silver but with a green metallic flake. I'm going to find a strange pattern as a overlay stencil for the silver part, spray black over it and then coat that in a green or maybe red candy. However ... I came up with an other idea that is amazing (and top secret 😂) so it's stopping me from pulling the trigger on purchasing the paint. It also doesn't help that the paint supplies that I mentioned above, minus the candy additives is $430 US... So $540 Canadian plus shipping. Soooo, there's that.
@@rickems8863 After explaining it to you, and thinking more about it last night, I'm more uncertain than ever what I'm going to do... I may actually choose the second, top secret option. I think people would like to see me do that painting process though.
Sweet ! That's always exciting. It's something not everyone can understand, haha. Will it be bad if my viewers start finishing their projects before me !! Haha... I hope not, because that's sure to happen. Feel free to email me a few photos of your project / ski if you want me to share it with others. If not that's fine too 👍
I like the way I did it, haha. I have seen some that I don't care for. Function wise, from what I read, it's not clear answer, but IF you go to far and make it too short, you can compensate with a longer ride plate and other mods. Typically people do this mod of freestyle skis. More steering angle and the shorter ski makes the front pop up easier. Racers make their skis longer to push the nose in and then use tubbies to get some front grip and stability. I did mine because I don't want to cut it after I paint. With the power and weight of the 1100 and the front fill... this may not be the best idea, but I can always modify or replace the ride plate or add sponsons to the rear to make it behave the way I want. My "plan" is to make an adjustable ride plate and adjustable sponsons so that I can play with it and see what it does.
The cat, I don’t know why but even though I know that you actually have a cat I like to pretend that you don’t have a cat. And the make believe cat is your scape goat for when anything goes wrong haha 😆 for instance today you say you can’t run your compressor because of the cat but in this make believe reality in my brain your compressor is broken but you don’t want to complain so you blame the cat. 😂 now I am going to actually watch the video because I have been typing and not paying attention and the video is halfway over. Yes I am a slow typer will be adding to this comment as I watch the video haha crazy how many holes are in the top of the x2, yep sawzall is good cut off wheel is also good😉 I like that you are just going for it 🤘🍻 I like the new shape in the back a lot 👍👌900 carbs yep I know that’s what we use. You used our promo code nice 👍 extra respect points
The funny thing is, the other week while thinking ideas for a potential TH-cam video series- I was thinking one of my shticks could always be blaming either the camera-man (self shot videos), or some other imaginary character off camera that I always refer to for being the cause of all my woes relating to the progress of the video’s subject matter’s failures... Seems like you took my idea, JS bros, and turned it into Joel’s cat. ILL NEVER be able to compete with you professional you tubers 🤣 might as well give up cuz I’m SCREWED 😆
Quasar, the cat is sometimes blamed for things he didn't do... but he is real 😂 I tend to be really slow at typing as well... I think way too much about what I'm going to say and I'm always afraid that I'm confusing people. There are a lot of holes... both from the factory and then a whole lot of extra ones caused by running into things, haha. I was surprised at how well the sawzall worked. I've seen you guys use both the sawzall and cutting disc. I was trying to be tidy but gave up on that pretty quick. Did you end up changing jetting on the 900 carbs? From what I read, they are slightly different, but I haven't checked inside these ones yet.
@@bernielomax4859 Yeah... the JSB and I are working with a pretty big budget, writers and lots of behind the scenes help... so ideas and production should be top notch :)
As far as looks go. Your not gonna see much when it's in the water. But I'm interested to hear how you like the ride. I'd like to do the cut in my x2 but it's in much better shape then yours so I feel bad cutting it. Plus it half belongs to my brother. Maybe one day. I like to try one that is cut to compare before hand.
That's true... once it's in the water, you don't see any of that. If this one was in decent shape, I probably wouldn't have cut it either. The nice thing about this mod is that it is easy to compensate for if you don't like it, or went too far. A longer ride plate or a ride plate extension will help. For racers and all out handling and speed, the general mod is to go longer. With all of the changes I'm making (the engine and front fill) I'm going to have to make some handling mods anyway :)
@@JoelArseneaultTH-cam looking forward to seeing it in action. I'd like to go ride with ya this summer. If you come down to see the bros I'm less than an hour from them.
@@davidjackson8820 There's so many changes since I rode it last, it's basically a new ski... I'm very excited to ride it even though I'm sure it's going to have a few issues that need to be sorted out. I would love to travel down that way. It's going to depend a lot on my work schedule and what travel restrictions there are. Last year was a bad year for my business, so I'm going to have to make up for it this year, or be in trouble.
Always cool to see an x2 get hacked up. Everybody does something different. I like how you cut the back. I was thinking on mine to do similar but cut the middle the same as the sides and make a different seat. Is the fitment of the carbs in the ski crazy? I think I've seen people make the outside look ugly for the back carb fitment.
One cool thing about the X2 (most skis) is that there's a million different ways to basically do the same thing. I would have cut mine off and modified the seat but I have to tie mine down to transport it. I could have come up with something else, but I like the way it turned out. If you want to install pod filters you need to bubble the back out a little. Some people do it more than necessary, and some people do it because they like the look of it. Zack, in the comment section here, is building a 900 and is making a carbon fibre bubble for his. I'm going to do whatever I can to keep my not bubbled.
@@JoelArseneaultTH-cam I was thinking you could put u bolts in the front and back and it might work pretty good. Then just delete the bow eyes. If people just bubble to fit a filter on.... I'd just run with no filters. I think the most important part of a 1100 build is the electronics at this point. I think every kawi triple I've had had really annoying gremlins in the electronics. I will be interested to see what you do for that stuff.
@@Jacobskibros For sure. U bolts or D rings... Just have to make sure they are attached to something strong enough. I was going to put a strap that attached on each side of the pump tunnel ... but then I wasn't sure about it interfering with stuff. Yeah... I'm probably not going to be running filter pods. I may make a Kawasaki style box, purchase one or come up with something else. I've read that if you don't have something, the back carb tends to pick up water if you flip it because the water runs down that part of the body. As for the electronics... I'm curious to see what I'm going to do too, haha. I'm going to keep it as simple as possible, try to keep the ignition isolated from everything else, and pick through it one piece at a time till it works well :) ... hopefully.
Yikes, hull cutting gets me nervous, that all looks pretty good though. I also didn’t realize the cracking around the foot wells was that common, is that the main reason for the braces people put between the front and back of the hood?
Hull cutting makes me nervous too. I wouldn't want to do this if the hull was in good condition, but we have established that this hull is far from good condition haha. Yup.... The surf braces are because of this cracking. Even with them, they sometimes crack where the seat angles up to the steering. People have made aluminum and carbon fibre bracing for that area. The main issue with the X2 hull ( I think - I'm no expert ) is that it was basically the bottom of a stand up hull with an untested top design. The design of a stand up makes them MASSIVELY rigid and strong. The aluminum braces installed from the factory are there because they knew the tall steering part would cause issues, they just underestimated it slightly. I've never heard of a total failure. Even in a crash or jumping huge wakes, but they all get cracks in these areas if you thrash on them.
I'm not really sure. I've been recording most of my weight reductions, but not adding it all up. On the exhaust system alone I shaved over 13 pounds. I may do more in the future, but I'm going to try it as is. I think the rear bumper, front bumper, the rubber pads at the rear of the foot trays and the stuff that I cut off was around 10 pounds. My old battery was 20 pounds and my new one is less than 2, but I think a standard X2 battery is about 13-14 pounds ... so another 10 or so there. With the 1100 engine, I know it's going to be heavy, so I'm just doing what I can to keep it down a bit... plus I just enjoy it.
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Hi Joel, I love the way you have cut the back of your ski, I hope it works as good as it looks, cheers mate
Hey Adrian. Thanks! I'm sure putting an 1100 in it is going to change the handling lots too 😆, and adding the front fill. I will likely have to do some further customization to make it behave. It should make for an interesting ride and fun videos :)
I saw that you sent me some photos. I will have a look and respond when I have time.
Just a tip that might come in useful-
You can remove paint from plastic parts by spraying them with non chlorinated brake cleaner, then sealing them in a plastic bag for about 30 minutes.
The plastic won't melt, but it can dry it out a bit.
One time I stripped orange vinyl paint off of an entire dashboard (vents and everything). Saved me thousands of dollars.
Awesome, thanks for the tip ! I will totally give that a try some time.
You never fail to amaze me with you attention to detail. Cuts look good , but I wonder how much water you'll take on when you slow down. You never told us 5 he paint colors. .. editing is spot on . Music too. I'll be looking for your next update. Two thumbs up.
Thanks Rick. I'm glad you appreciate my efforts ! I honestly don't know how it's going to affect handling, how it sits in the water or it's slow water characteristics, but these things are fairly easy to change / counteract by modifying the ride plate. I'm adding 1100 engine, and a front fill... so the handling is going to be night and day from what it was. I expect there will be some tinkering to get it to work the way I want.
I really want to build an adjustable ride plate (maybe even adjustable on the fly) as a project, now that I have a welder. I also want to make some adjustable sponsons and play with them to see how it changes the handling. Many of the SX, SXi and SR-X skis have extended ride plates and even body extensions as they tend to porpoise really bad.
Paint colors ... It's not that simple lol. Dead rat flat black, mixed with a silver metallic flake. Clear coat over most of the black with a green candy mixed in the clear. Silver metallic (possibly) for graphics. Then the visible part of the hull below the bond line in the same silver but with a green metallic flake. I'm going to find a strange pattern as a overlay stencil for the silver part, spray black over it and then coat that in a green or maybe red candy.
However ... I came up with an other idea that is amazing (and top secret 😂) so it's stopping me from pulling the trigger on purchasing the paint. It also doesn't help that the paint supplies that I mentioned above, minus the candy additives is $430 US... So $540 Canadian plus shipping. Soooo, there's that.
@@JoelArseneaultTH-cam boy, when you do something, you really go all out .... I like it...
@@rickems8863 After explaining it to you, and thinking more about it last night, I'm more uncertain than ever what I'm going to do... I may actually choose the second, top secret option. I think people would like to see me do that painting process though.
I think it looks sweet
Thanks ! Should look even better once it is painted and I have mat reinstalled.
Great vid Joel! I’m actually putting my ski back together as we speak. Just got a ton of parts in for my b1 hopefully be done soon!
Sweet ! That's always exciting. It's something not everyone can understand, haha.
Will it be bad if my viewers start finishing their projects before me !! Haha... I hope not, because that's sure to happen.
Feel free to email me a few photos of your project / ski if you want me to share it with others. If not that's fine too 👍
@@JoelArseneaultTH-cam I’ll have to take some pics and vids this coming weekend.
the rear cuts looks great, i wonder about function, looking forwards to seeing how that works out
I like the way I did it, haha. I have seen some that I don't care for.
Function wise, from what I read, it's not clear answer, but IF you go to far and make it too short, you can compensate with a longer ride plate and other mods.
Typically people do this mod of freestyle skis. More steering angle and the shorter ski makes the front pop up easier. Racers make their skis longer to push the nose in and then use tubbies to get some front grip and stability.
I did mine because I don't want to cut it after I paint. With the power and weight of the 1100 and the front fill... this may not be the best idea, but I can always modify or replace the ride plate or add sponsons to the rear to make it behave the way I want. My "plan" is to make an adjustable ride plate and adjustable sponsons so that I can play with it and see what it does.
The cat, I don’t know why but even though I know that you actually have a cat I like to pretend that you don’t have a cat. And the make believe cat is your scape goat for when anything goes wrong haha 😆 for instance today you say you can’t run your compressor because of the cat but in this make believe reality in my brain your compressor is broken but you don’t want to complain so you blame the cat. 😂 now I am going to actually watch the video because I have been typing and not paying attention and the video is halfway over. Yes I am a slow typer will be adding to this comment as I watch the video haha crazy how many holes are in the top of the x2, yep sawzall is good cut off wheel is also good😉 I like that you are just going for it 🤘🍻 I like the new shape in the back a lot 👍👌900 carbs yep I know that’s what we use. You used our promo code nice 👍 extra respect points
I thought this comment made absolutely no sense, then I saw who authored it.
@@bernielomax4859 LOL.
The funny thing is, the other week while thinking ideas for a potential TH-cam video series- I was thinking one of my shticks could always be blaming either the camera-man (self shot videos), or some other imaginary character off camera that I always refer to for being the cause of all my woes relating to the progress of the video’s subject matter’s failures... Seems like you took my idea, JS bros, and turned it into Joel’s cat. ILL NEVER be able to compete with you professional you tubers 🤣 might as well give up cuz I’m SCREWED 😆
Quasar, the cat is sometimes blamed for things he didn't do... but he is real 😂
I tend to be really slow at typing as well... I think way too much about what I'm going to say and I'm always afraid that I'm confusing people. There are a lot of holes... both from the factory and then a whole lot of extra ones caused by running into things, haha.
I was surprised at how well the sawzall worked. I've seen you guys use both the sawzall and cutting disc. I was trying to be tidy but gave up on that pretty quick.
Did you end up changing jetting on the 900 carbs? From what I read, they are slightly different, but I haven't checked inside these ones yet.
@@bernielomax4859 Yeah... the JSB and I are working with a pretty big budget, writers and lots of behind the scenes help... so ideas and production should be top notch :)
As far as looks go. Your not gonna see much when it's in the water. But I'm interested to hear how you like the ride. I'd like to do the cut in my x2 but it's in much better shape then yours so I feel bad cutting it. Plus it half belongs to my brother. Maybe one day. I like to try one that is cut to compare before hand.
That's true... once it's in the water, you don't see any of that.
If this one was in decent shape, I probably wouldn't have cut it either. The nice thing about this mod is that it is easy to compensate for if you don't like it, or went too far. A longer ride plate or a ride plate extension will help.
For racers and all out handling and speed, the general mod is to go longer. With all of the changes I'm making (the engine and front fill) I'm going to have to make some handling mods anyway :)
@@JoelArseneaultTH-cam looking forward to seeing it in action. I'd like to go ride with ya this summer. If you come down to see the bros I'm less than an hour from them.
@@davidjackson8820 There's so many changes since I rode it last, it's basically a new ski... I'm very excited to ride it even though I'm sure it's going to have a few issues that need to be sorted out.
I would love to travel down that way. It's going to depend a lot on my work schedule and what travel restrictions there are. Last year was a bad year for my business, so I'm going to have to make up for it this year, or be in trouble.
Always cool to see an x2 get hacked up. Everybody does something different. I like how you cut the back. I was thinking on mine to do similar but cut the middle the same as the sides and make a different seat. Is the fitment of the carbs in the ski crazy? I think I've seen people make the outside look ugly for the back carb fitment.
One cool thing about the X2 (most skis) is that there's a million different ways to basically do the same thing. I would have cut mine off and modified the seat but I have to tie mine down to transport it. I could have come up with something else, but I like the way it turned out.
If you want to install pod filters you need to bubble the back out a little. Some people do it more than necessary, and some people do it because they like the look of it. Zack, in the comment section here, is building a 900 and is making a carbon fibre bubble for his. I'm going to do whatever I can to keep my not bubbled.
@@JoelArseneaultTH-cam I was thinking you could put u bolts in the front and back and it might work pretty good. Then just delete the bow eyes.
If people just bubble to fit a filter on.... I'd just run with no filters.
I think the most important part of a 1100 build is the electronics at this point. I think every kawi triple I've had had really annoying gremlins in the electronics. I will be interested to see what you do for that stuff.
@@Jacobskibros For sure. U bolts or D rings... Just have to make sure they are attached to something strong enough. I was going to put a strap that attached on each side of the pump tunnel ... but then I wasn't sure about it interfering with stuff.
Yeah... I'm probably not going to be running filter pods. I may make a Kawasaki style box, purchase one or come up with something else. I've read that if you don't have something, the back carb tends to pick up water if you flip it because the water runs down that part of the body.
As for the electronics... I'm curious to see what I'm going to do too, haha. I'm going to keep it as simple as possible, try to keep the ignition isolated from everything else, and pick through it one piece at a time till it works well :) ... hopefully.
Yikes, hull cutting gets me nervous, that all looks pretty good though. I also didn’t realize the cracking around the foot wells was that common, is that the main reason for the braces people put between the front and back of the hood?
Hull cutting makes me nervous too. I wouldn't want to do this if the hull was in good condition, but we have established that this hull is far from good condition haha.
Yup.... The surf braces are because of this cracking. Even with them, they sometimes crack where the seat angles up to the steering. People have made aluminum and carbon fibre bracing for that area.
The main issue with the X2 hull ( I think - I'm no expert ) is that it was basically the bottom of a stand up hull with an untested top design. The design of a stand up makes them MASSIVELY rigid and strong. The aluminum braces installed from the factory are there because they knew the tall steering part would cause issues, they just underestimated it slightly.
I've never heard of a total failure. Even in a crash or jumping huge wakes, but they all get cracks in these areas if you thrash on them.
How much weight have you taken off total? So far...
I'm not really sure. I've been recording most of my weight reductions, but not adding it all up. On the exhaust system alone I shaved over 13 pounds. I may do more in the future, but I'm going to try it as is. I think the rear bumper, front bumper, the rubber pads at the rear of the foot trays and the stuff that I cut off was around 10 pounds.
My old battery was 20 pounds and my new one is less than 2, but I think a standard X2 battery is about 13-14 pounds ... so another 10 or so there.
With the 1100 engine, I know it's going to be heavy, so I'm just doing what I can to keep it down a bit... plus I just enjoy it.