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Pro-Tec Performance

Murrieta, California, SuperJet parts maker and shop, tested by Personal Watercraft Illustrated in 1997; the IJSBA's 2010 rule book names Pro-Tec Performance as maker of a girdle system.

At a glance

Kind
Maker, performance shop
Made
exhaust pipes, engine parts, intake grates, ride plates
On the record
2 years, from 1996 to 1997
In the archive
4 links
Years 1996 to 1997, one box each A single row of boxes, solid for a year printed above a fact and hollow for a year printed above none. 1996 1997
  • a year printed above a fact on this page

Printed above the facts, 1996 and 1997. 1 fact has no year printed above it and marks no box.

Every year from the first to the last year printed above a fact on this page, one box a year.

How we know: the year printed above each fact below.

What it made and sold

1996 · Likely

Group K's comments of 1996 on magazine articles discuss a Pro Tec limited SuperJet in Personal Watercraft Illustrated, a Pro Tec offshore 1100 with a Pro Tec intake grate in Watercraft World, and Pro Tec advertisements for a race cylinder, and say that Pro Tec, besides bolt-on parts, sold complete race boats and engines.

Sources: Group K Between the Lines 1996

1997 · Likely

Personal Watercraft Illustrated's March 1997 test fitted a parts package from Pro-Tec Performance Products of Murrieta, California, to a 1997 Yamaha SuperJet at the company's shop: an F series exhaust, a cast aluminium cylinder head, a cylinder-girdle kit, a carburettor kit with bored and modified Mikuni carburettors, a rev-limiter CDI, an intake grate, a ride plate and a handlepole spring, all under the Pro-Tec name. On the magazine's radar the boat ran just under 53 mph, over 6 mph more than its stock SuperJet.

Sources: PWI March 1997 Pro-Tec test

1997 · Likely

Group K's comments of 1997 name a Watercraft Power article of August 1997 on a Pro Tec engine package for the SuperJet in the Superstock class, and a Pro Tec cylinder head shown in it without an O-ring groove.

Sources: Group K Between the Lines 1997

Confirmed

The IJSBA's 2010 rule book, in the Spec Ski rules it took in condensed form from the American Power Boat Association, allows on all models engine girdle systems like one made by Pro-Tec Performance. The later rule books held, of 2011, 2012 and 2014 and the 2015 draft, do not name the company (searched 2026-10-16). Reading that Pro-Tec Performance as the Murrieta firm of the 1997 test rests on the name and the girdle kit and is the archive's inference.

Sources: 2010 rule book; 2011 rule book; 2012 rule book; 2014 rule book; 2015 draft rule book; PWI March 1997 Pro-Tec test

Names as printed

Pro-Tec Performance Products (PWI March 1997 Pro-Tec test); Pro Tec (Group K Between the Lines 1996); Pro-Tec (PWI March 1997 Pro-Tec test)

Elsewhere in the archive

What the archive has not read (2)

  • No document read dates the founding or gives a registry record for the company (searched the archive's mirror and research cache, 2026-10-16).
  • Personal Watercraft Illustrated's new-product pages on Pro-Tec of about 2001 were not read; the Wayback Machine refused a request for another page of the same series on 2026-10-16.

Documents cited on this page

  • 2010 rule book (web.archive.org): IJSBA 2010 Official Competition Rule Book, International Jet Sports Boating Association, 2010; sanctioning body, high. The complete 2010 book, kept by the Czech affiliate after IJSBA removed it. Part 8 is headed Open Class with Superstock as an addendum; the Stock part carries the Lites and class naming addenda; part 4 prints the 500 unit figure without a Ski exception and the 100 unit route below it; the appendix adds Special Production homologation below 100 units.
  • 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.
  • PWI March 1997 Pro-Tec test (web.archive.org): Pro-Tec performance products 1997 Yamaha SuperJet Limited, by Jeff Hain (Personal Watercraft Illustrated, March 1997, Wayback capture), Personal Watercraft Illustrated, 1997-03; enthusiast media, medium. The magazine's test of a parts package from Pro-Tec Performance Products of Murrieta, California, fitted at the company's shop to a 1997 Yamaha SuperJet: an exhaust, a cylinder head, a cylinder-girdle kit, a carburettor kit, a rev-limiter CDI, an intake grate, a ride plate and a handlepole spring, all under the Pro-Tec name, with radar speeds. Read from the Wayback capture of 24 June 1997. Medium: an independent magazine test, though the magazine's praise and its count of the shop's titles are its own and are not used. The held copy replaces a few words, the street address and the telephone numbers in place.
  • 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.
  • 2011 rule book (web.archive.org): IJSBA 2011 Official Competition Rule Book, International Jet Sports Boating Association, 2011; sanctioning body, high. The complete 2011 book from the Czech affiliate's server. Repeats the 2010 Lites addendum (85 and 220 horsepower) and the class naming addendum, and its competition classes appendix still prints 500 (200 for Ski Division) while its part 4 prints 500 flat.
  • 2012 rule book (web.archive.org): IJSBA 2012 Official Competition Rule Book, International Jet Sports Boating Association, 2012; sanctioning body, high. The complete 2012 book. Its Lites addendum redefines Runabout Lites as four-stroke naturally aspirated Stock runabouts under 2000cc, and its Ski sponson rule is dated to itself, as of 2012, for the four-sponson allowance on Lites-eligible Ski.
  • 2014 rule book (web.archive.org): IJSBA 2014 Official Competition Rule Book, International Jet Sports Boating Association, 2014; sanctioning body, high. The complete 2014 book. Runabout Lites is renamed Runabout Rec Lites in the addendum, and the class list adds Vintage Ski (JS type hulls only, 550cc maximum), Sport GP and Runabout 1000 Superstock.
  • 2015 draft rule book (web.archive.org): IJSBA 2015 Official Competition Rule Book (draft), International Jet Sports Boating Association, 2015; sanctioning body, high. A draft, as its file name says, so cited only where it repeats earlier books. Its class list is the 2014 list unchanged, Vintage Ski included.
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