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Buckshot Racing

Carburettor kit maker with a shop in Brea, named by Personal Watercraft Illustrated in 1996 among aftermarket carburettor makers; the magazine tested its kit on a Kawasaki Ultra 150 in 2000.

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Printed above the facts, 1996, 1997 and 2000. Printed above none, 1998 and 1999.

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What it made and sold

1996 · Likely

A carburettor tuning article in Personal Watercraft Illustrated of June 1996 closes with its author saying that in the next issue he will invite aftermarket carburettor and fuel-injection makers, Buckshot Racing among them, to submit their approaches to fuel supply.

Sources: PWI June 1996 carburettor tuning; Group K Between the Lines 1996

1996 · Likely

Group K's comments of 1996 on magazine articles discuss Personal Watercraft Illustrated's July 1996 test of Buckshot carburettors on a Sea-Doo XP 800. The test itself is not held, and Group K's speed opinions are its own.

Sources: Group K Between the Lines 1996

1997 · Likely

Group K's comments of 1997, on a Watercraft World article of May 1997, name Buckshot among the oversized carburettors they set beside a fuel injection system for the Sea-Doo XP 800. Reading the Buckshot of Group K's pages as Buckshot Racing rests on the name and the goods.

Sources: Group K Between the Lines 1997

2000 · Likely

Personal Watercraft Illustrated's test, on a page the Wayback Machine captured on 11 May 2000, fitted a Buckshot Racing BRM kit to a Kawasaki Ultra 150, beside an ADA Racing cylinder head: three 50mm billet-aluminium carburettors with an accelerator pump and a remote fuel pump, three billet intake manifolds, a fuel manifold and three Buckshot Racing flame arrestors. The work was done at its owner's shop in Brea, and the magazine says Buckshot Racing would also modify stock cylinder heads to go with the kit.

Sources: PWI 2000 Buckshot and ADA test

Elsewhere in the archive

• History chapter: The aftermarket: exhaust pipes and engine parts
• Era: The makers and their machines

What the archive has not read (3)

• Personal Watercraft Illustrated's July 1996 test of Buckshot carburettors is known only through Group K's comment; the issue is not in the magazine's online archive (searched the Wayback Machine's captures of watercraft.com, 2026-10-17).
• No document dates the founding of the business (searched the archive's mirror and research cache, 2026-10-18).
• The present Buckshot Racing site describes off-road sand cars and does not mention watercraft, so it is not joined to the carburettor maker (searched the archive's mirror and research cache, 2026-10-18).

Documents cited on this page

• PWI 2000 Buckshot and ADA test (web.archive.org): Test: Buckshot Racing/ADA Racing Kawasaki, Making the fastest, faster, by Jeff Hain (Personal Watercraft Illustrated, 2000; Wayback capture), Personal Watercraft Illustrated, 2000; enthusiast media, medium. The magazine's test of a Kawasaki Ultra 150 fitted with an ADA Racing billet-aluminium cylinder head with replaceable domes and a Buckshot Racing BRM carburettor kit (three 50mm billet carburettors, billet manifolds and Pro Lite Power Filters), installed at Buckshot Racing's shop in Brea, California, with radar speeds. Captured on 11 May 2000; the page address reads as volume 14 number 3, and the text names the December 1999 issue and a test around New Year, so the issue is of 2000. Medium: an independent magazine test; its praise and prices are not used. The held copy is an excerpt, without the site menu.
• PWI June 1996 carburettor tuning (web.archive.org): Dialin' it in: basic tuning of the diaphragm-type carburetor, by Rick Peterson (Personal Watercraft Illustrated, June 1996; Wayback capture), Personal Watercraft Illustrated, 1996-06; enthusiast media, medium. A technical article on carburettor tuning by a shop owner writing for the magazine, captured by the Wayback Machine on 2 December 1996 from the magazine's 1996 archive. Its closing paragraph says the next issue will invite aftermarket carburettor and fuel-injection manufacturers, naming Boswell Carburetion, Buckshot Racing, Mega-Flow, Novi Performance Products and MRD Injection. Dated June 1996 by the page address and by Group K's comments on the June 1996 issue, which list this article. Medium: the magazine's own text. Held as an excerpt; the tuning body and two makers' addresses are not copied.
• Group K Between the Lines 1996 (groupk.com): Between The Lines - 1996 (Group K, groupk.com), Group K, 1996; enthusiast media, medium. A tuning shop's comments on the technical items in the PWC magazines of 1995 and 1996, issue by issue, kept on the shop's site under the heading 1996. Read on 2026-10-05 and held as text. It is the shop's current page and no earlier capture is held (searched the archive's mirror and research cache, 2026-10-09), so the dating rests on the heading and on the issue-by-issue layout. Medium as a trade participant's period commentary: the shop sells engine kits and names the parts it uses, and its opinions of other makers' parts are not relied on. Cited only for which products it names as existing. The shop's telephone number and street address are removed from the held copy.
• Group K Between the Lines 1997 (groupk.com): Between The Lines - January 97 to December 97 (Group K, groupk.com), Group K, 1997; enthusiast media, medium. The same shop's comments on the technical items in the PWC magazines of 1997, issue by issue, kept on its site under the heading January 97 to December 97. Read on 2026-10-05 and held as text; the page is current and no earlier capture is held, so the dating rests on the heading and the issue-by-issue layout. Medium as a trade participant's period commentary, cited only for which products it names as existing.

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