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Hot Products

San Diego racing parts firm on the IJSBA's associate member lists, whose name is in the titles of the World Finals of 2012 and 2013 and of the Havasu endurance race of 2016, 2017 and 2020.

• a year printed above a fact on this page
• a year printed above no fact

Printed above the facts, 1996, 1998 and 2004. Printed above none, 1997 and 1999 to 2003. 3 facts have no year printed above them and mark no box.

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What it made and sold

1998 · Likely

Bombardier's 1998 Sea-Doo Racing Handbook lists Hot Products of San Diego, for racing parts, among the aftermarket manufacturers it says it recommends, with a web address on the Exceed domain; the 1996 edition does not list it (the edition's aftermarket list, searched 2026-10-16).

Sources: Sea-Doo Racing Handbook 1998; Sea-Doo Racing Handbook 1996

1998 · Likely

Personal Watercraft Illustrated's December 1998 test of a Factory Pipe exhaust on a Yamaha GP800 reports that the accelerator pump of the front carburettor had been removed and replaced by a Hot Products diaphragm cover plate.

Sources: PWI December 1998 Factory Pipe test

On the race sheets

1996 · Likely

Group K's comments of 1996 on Personal Watercraft Illustrated's February 1996 issue name Hot Products as the sponsor of a rider who won an IJSBA tour title, in a piece on a replica of his Sea-Doo HX.

Sources: Group K Between the Lines 1996

2004 · Confirmed

The association's overall sheets for Pro Ski and Pro Runabout at the 2004 World Finals print Hot Products in the sponsors column against an entry each, which records what the riders entered.

Sources: 2004 World Finals Pro Ski overall; 2004 World Finals Pro Runabout overall

Confirmed

The association's results pages for the World Finals of 2012 and 2013 are headed 2012 Hot Products World Finals and 2013 Hot Products World Finals.

Sources: 2012 World Finals page 1007; 2013 World Finals page 101313

Confirmed

The Havasu endurance race carried the name too: the association published the complete results of the 2016 Hot Products Mark Hahn 300, The Watercraft Journal's gallery of the 2017 race has Hot Products in its title, and the association called the 2020 race the Yamaha 2020 Mark Hahn 300 presented by Hot Products.

Sources: 2016 Mark Hahn 300 complete results; WCJ 15 Feb 2017 Mark Hahn 300; 2020 Mark Hahn 300 results post

The business on record

Confirmed

The IJSBA's associate member directory, as captured on 9 March 2005, lists Hot Products/Exceed Int'l Inc. of San Diego among its corporate members, and the association's current associate members page, which carries a last-modified stamp of 21 March 2017, lists it again. Reading the Hot Products of Bombardier's 1998 list as this corporation rests on the name, the city and the Exceed domain in its web address and is the archive's inference.

Sources: IJSBA associate directory 2005; IJSBA associate members page; Sea-Doo Racing Handbook 1998

Names as printed

Hot Products/Exceed Int'l Inc. (IJSBA associate directory 2005)

Elsewhere in the archive

• History chapter: The aftermarket: exhaust pipes and engine parts
• Event: IJSBA World Finals
• Event: Havasu 300 and Mark Hahn Memorial 300
• Organisation: International Jet Sports Boating Association
• Era: The makers and their machines
• Era: The rule book years

What the archive has not read (3)

• No document read says when or by whom Hot Products was founded; an undated foreign post, which the archive does not hold, gives an account that is not used (searched the archive's mirror and research cache, 2026-10-16).
• A USPTO search for HOT PRODUCTS on 2026-10-05 found no mark in the watercraft trade, and no state registry record was read (searched the archive's mirror and research cache, 2026-10-16).
• Personal Watercraft Illustrated's new-product page on Hot Products of about 2001 could not be read: the Wayback Machine refused the request on 2026-10-16.

Documents cited on this page

• Sea-Doo Racing Handbook 1998 (archive.org): Sea-Doo Racing Handbook, 1998 edition (Bombardier Inc.; Internet Archive item manualzilla-id-6025632, OCR excerpts), Bombardier Inc., held by the Internet Archive, 1998; manufacturer primary, medium. The craft maker's racing handbook for Sea-Doo racers, dated 1998 by the Internet Archive's item title (its text lists 1996 IJSBA champions and paint codes to 1997). Read from the OCR text on 2026-10-16. Its Aftermarket Manufacturers section lists makers the craft maker says it recommends, each with a line of goods in brackets: Factory Pipe (Exhaust Systems), Hot Products (Racing Parts), Ocean Pro Engineering (Race Parts and Flame Arresters), Westcoast Performance Products (Racing Parts and Carbon Fiber Hulls) and others; its 787 engine section names a Factory Pipe exhaust; a page quotes the Westcoast Performance Products racing team manager. Medium: an independent maker's document, read as OCR, and the list is its recommendation, not a test. Held as excerpts with addresses and telephone numbers removed.
• Sea-Doo Racing Handbook 1996 (archive.org): Sea-Doo Racing Handbook, 1996 edition (Bombardier Inc.; Internet Archive item manualzilla-id-6034982, OCR excerpts), Bombardier Inc., held by the Internet Archive, 1996; manufacturer primary, medium. The craft maker's racing handbook, dated 1996 by the Internet Archive's item title (its paint and porting tables run to the 1996 models). A page quotes the "Pro Racing Team Manager, Westcoast Performance Products", and the Aftermarket Manufacturers and Services list names Westcoast Performance Products among seven makers; the OCR prints the services column apart from the names, so no service is matched to a maker. Factory Pipe, Hot Products and Ocean Pro are not in this edition's list. Medium: an independent maker's document read as OCR. (as Sea-Doo Racing Handbook 1998 above)
• PWI December 1998 Factory Pipe test (web.archive.org): Factory Pipe's Yamaha WaveRunner GP800 Exhaust Systems, by Jeff Hain (Personal Watercraft Illustrated, December 1998, Wayback capture), Personal Watercraft Illustrated, 1998-12; enthusiast media, medium. The magazine's test of a Factory Pipe twin exhaust for the Yamaha GP800, twice naming Factory Pipe owner Ross Liberty. Phone numbers in its supplier list are removed from the held copy; the product verdicts are not used.
• 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.
• 2004 World Finals Pro Ski overall (web.archive.org): 2004 World Finals, Pro Ski overall points (PDF, Wayback capture), International Jet Sports Boating Association, 2004; sanctioning body, high. Pro Ski overall points by boat, name, hometown and sponsors, with three motos and the sum. One rider who rode all three motos is missing from this overall, so the sheet is read with the moto sheets.
• 2004 World Finals Pro Runabout overall (web.archive.org): 2004 World Finals, Pro Runabout overall points (PDF, Wayback capture), International Jet Sports Boating Association, 2004; sanctioning body, high. Pro Runabout overall points by boat, with three motos and the sum. The sheet prints no position column and its cells drift out of line partway down the list, so an overall position read from it is an inference.
• 2012 World Finals page 1007 (web.archive.org): 2012 Hot Products World Finals, Results Sunday October 7, 2012 (Aquascore results, Wayback capture), International Jet Sports Boating Association, 2012-10-07; sanctioning body, high. Sunday's Aquascore printout on the association's site, with twelve classes listed and twelve unlabelled sections after them. The text layer breaks the class list across lines. This text is held as an excerpt.
• 2013 World Finals page 101313 (web.archive.org): 2013 Hot Products World Finals, results page 101313 (www2.ijsba.com, Wayback capture of 5 November 2013), International Jet Sports Boating Association, 2013-10-13; sanctioning body, high. The association's Aquascore results page named for 13 October 2013, nine classes listed and nine uncaptioned sections in that order, every section printing the event's opening date. His row, Sea-Doo, seventh, is in the fourth section, Pro Runabout, with Champion Motorsports and Judge Motorsports on its sponsor line.
• 2016 Mark Hahn 300 complete results (web.archive.org): Complete Results From 2016 Hot Products Mark Hahn 300 (IJSBA post of 29 February 2016, Wayback capture), International Jet Sports Boating Association, 2016-02-29; sanctioning body, high. The association's official results tables for the 2016 Mark Hahn 300, class by class, with number, brand, team names and place. The held copy keeps the Manufacturers Stock table's heading and first two rows.
• WCJ 15 Feb 2017 Mark Hahn 300 (watercraftjournal.com): Gallery: 13th Annual 2017 Hot Products Mark Hahn Memorial Havasu 300 Presented by Yamaha (The Watercraft Journal, 15 February 2017), The Watercraft Journal, 2017-02-15; enthusiast media, medium. The magazine's gallery and report of the 2017 Mark Hahn 300 with class results. Medium as enthusiast media; the association's 2017 results table is not held.
• 2020 Mark Hahn 300 results post (web.archive.org): 2020 Mark Hahn 300 Results (IJSBA post of 25 February 2020, Wayback capture), International Jet Sports Boating Association, 2020-02-25; sanctioning body, high. The association's own results post for the 2020 Mark Hahn 300, an overall list and a by-class list, each row a team name, race number, class code, make, laps and hometown. The table prints no placing column, so a place is read from the order by laps.
• IJSBA associate directory 2005 (web.archive.org): IJSBA associate members, corporate member directory (Wayback capture of 9 March 2005), International Jet Sports Boating Association, 2005-03-09; sanctioning body, high. The association's own list of companies holding associate membership, as its site showed it on 9 March 2005, each with an address and most with a named contact. High for which companies the association listed and whom it named for each; it gives no title or office for a contact. The held text is an excerpt of the page.
• IJSBA associate members page (ijsba.com): IJSBA Associate Members (IJSBA page), International Jet Sports Boating Association, 2017-03-21; sanctioning body, high. The association's current list of associate members, read live on 5 October 2026; the page carries a last-modified stamp of 21 March 2017, which is the date given here. High for whom the association lists; it gives no office for a named contact. The held copy replaces street addresses, phone numbers and email addresses.

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