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Rossier Engineering

A Plover, Wisconsin, firm listed in Bombardier's Sea-Doo racing handbooks of 1996 and 1998, in 1998 for race parts and engine modifications, and named in Group K's comments on watercraft magazines of 1996 and 1997.

At a glance

Kind
Maker, performance shop
Made
exhaust pipes, engine parts
On the record
3 years, from 1996 to 1998
In the archive
2 links
Years 1996 to 1998, 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 1998
  • a year printed above a fact on this page

Printed above the facts, 1996 to 1998.

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

Bombardier's 1996 Sea-Doo Racing Handbook, so dated by the Internet Archive's item title, lists Rossier Engineering of Plover, Wisconsin, among the seven makers in its list of aftermarket manufacturers and services, a list it says Sea-Doo recommends; the text prints the services apart from the names, so no service can be matched to the company.

Sources: Sea-Doo Racing Handbook 1996

1998 · Likely

Bombardier's 1998 Sea-Doo Racing Handbook, so dated by the Internet Archive's item title, lists Rossier Engineering of Plover, Wisconsin, for race parts and engine modifications, among the aftermarket manufacturers it says it recommends.

Sources: Sea-Doo Racing Handbook 1998

1996 · Likely

Group K's comments on the watercraft magazines of 1996 list articles on Rossier machines and parts: a fully modified Rossier XP 720 race boat in Watercraft World of April, a Rossier XP800 in Splash of April, a Rossier XP 800 pipe tested by Waverider in September and fitted in its November issue, and a Rossier GSX 782 in Watercraft World of December. Group K adds that it had itself run a Rossier XP 800 pipe on a stock XP. The archive reads Rossier as this company from the name, an inference; the articles themselves are not held.

Sources: Group K Between the Lines 1996

1997 · Likely

Group K's comments on the magazines of 1997 name Rossier among the shops whose Sea-Doo XP800 work Waverider featured in January, a fully modified Rossier HX 785 race machine in Splash of February, the first article on a Rossier 785 Super Stock engine package for the Sea-Doo XP in Watercraft Power of July, with a dyno chart supplied by the company, and a Rossier 970 XP run in stock and carbon fibre hulls in Watercraft Power of October and November. Group K shortens the name to RE, which the archive reads as Rossier Engineering, an inference.

Sources: Group K Between the Lines 1997

Names as printed

Rossier (Group K Between the Lines 1996); RE (Group K Between the Lines 1997)

Elsewhere in the archive

What the archive has not read (3)

  • The magazine articles Group K comments on, among them the 1996 article on the Rossier XP 720 race boat, are not held; none was found in a digital copy (searched the archive's mirror and research cache and the Internet Archive's full text, 2026-10-17).
  • The Catalog of Catalogs V of 1997 lists Rossier Engineering of Plover, Wisconsin, but has been read only through the Internet Archive's search and not as a page (2026-10-17).
  • No held document dates the start or end of trading, names an owner, or gives a registry record, and no US trademark in the company's name was found (searched the archive's mirror and research cache, and USPTO name searches, 2026-10-17).

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)
  • 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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