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Performance Jet Ski

A firm that Kawasaki's 1994 technical magazine credits with modifying a championship-winning Super Sport Xi, and that a 1988 magazine names as backing a race team.

At a glance

Kind
Performance shop, race team
On the record
in 1988
In the archive
4 links

Patents and trademarks

Likely

The same article introduces a production machine, the JH750-D1 or XiR, whose hull it calls virtually identical to the one on that championship-winning boat. This concerns Kawasaki's machine and not the firm. The excerpt of the article held, its first page and the start of its second, does not say who made either hull (searched that excerpt, 2026-10-16).

Sources: K-Tech News Spring 1994

On the race sheets

1988 · Likely

Passages from Personal Watercraft Illustrated of February 1988, read through the Internet Archive's search and not as an article, mention a rider given the secondary rider spot on a Performance Jet Ski-backed team; the rest of the sentence is cut.

Sources: PWI February 1988 trade probes

Likely

Kawasaki's technical magazine, K-Tech News, of spring 1994 says the Kawasaki Super Sport Xi ridden to the IJSBA's World and National Pro Runabout championships in the past season was modified by Performance Jet Ski. The championships are Kawasaki's statement, and no result sheet for them is held (searched the archive's mirror and research cache, 2026-10-16).

Sources: K-Tech News Spring 1994

The business on record

Likely

The Watercraft Journal's report of 5 September 2018 on R&D Racing Products' change says the company came from a partnership between its president and a former Performance Jet Ski (PJS) technician.

Sources: Watercraft Journal on R&D 2018

Names as printed

PJS (Watercraft Journal on R&D 2018)

Elsewhere in the archive

What the archive has not read (3)

  • No document held dates the firm's start or end, names its owner in a document the archive can cite, or gives its town (searched the archive's mirror and research cache, 2026-10-16).
  • Several documents print PJS without saying it is Performance Jet Ski: a rival maker's 1990 flyer listing PJS among pipe makers, a 1992 PJS Japan advertisement cited by a patent, a PJS mark registered in 2021 to PJS Motor Sports, Cobra/PJS hulls in a 2022 vintage class rule, PJS in the sponsors columns of the 2011 and 2012 World Finals, and Performance Jet Systems in Personal Watercraft Illustrated's 1997 buyers guide. None is joined to this page (searched the archive's mirror and research cache, 2026-10-16).
  • No document held shows the firm in a team role for Kawasaki (searched the archive's mirror and research cache, 2026-10-16).

Documents cited on this page

  • K-Tech News Spring 1994 (archive.org): K-Tech News, The Kawasaki Technical Magazine, vol. 7 no. 1, Spring 1994 (OCR excerpt), Kawasaki Motors Corp., U.S.A., 1994; manufacturer primary, medium. The maker's technical magazine for its dealers; the front-page article on the JH750-D1 (XiR) says the machine it derives from was modified by Performance Jet Ski and ridden to IJSBA World and National Pro Runabout championships. Medium: a maker describing a machine it then sold, and the championships are its statement, not read off a result sheet. Only the article and its continuation are held, read from the OCR text of a bulk scan.
  • PWI February 1988 trade probes (archive.org): Personal Watercraft Illustrated volume 2 number 1 of 1988 (read through archive.org's full-text search for trade names), Personal Watercraft Illustrated, read through the Internet Archive's full-text search, 1988; enthusiast media, medium. A second set of OCR passages from the same emptied item as the PWI February 1988 search text, one query per trade name: a Team Butch advertisement, a reference to a team backed by Performance Jet Ski, a Jetco catalogue offer and an Ocean Pro advertisement. Short passages with the OCR's errors, not articles. Medium; the phone numbers in the passages are replaced in the held copy. The link opens the item's archive.org page; the passages were read through the full-text search, as the held copy says.
  • Watercraft Journal on R&D 2018 (watercraftjournal.com): R&D Performance Products Closes Its Doors After 30 Years, by Kevin Shaw (The Watercraft Journal, 5 September 2018), The Watercraft Journal, 2018-09-05; enthusiast media, medium. Report of R&D's closing on 27 September 2018, calling Glenn Dickinson its President and Bill Chapin a former Performance Jet Ski technician and Dickinson's business partner in R&D, and printing the closing statement signed by Dickinson. The news was first reported by jetskiworld.gr.

Changes to this page

  • 2026-10-18: Wording on the Performance Jet Ski page that described how the archive read or kept its sources now says what the archive holds.
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