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Westcoast Performance Products

Anaheim parts maker and race team, whose team manager Bombardier's 1996 and 1998 racing handbooks quote, and whose corporation registered the WESTCOAST and WORKS PIPE marks in 1990.

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Printed above the facts, 1988 to 1990 and 1996 to 1998. Printed above none, 1991 to 1995. 2 facts have no year printed above them and mark no box.

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What it made and sold

1988 · Likely

Passages of Personal Watercraft Illustrated's February 1988 issue, read through the Internet Archive's search, print the name Westcoast Performance in an advertisement that also lists steering and carburettor lines for the 440, 300 and 550 Jet Skis, and Westcoast among the names in a dealer's advertisement. Reading that name as this company rests on the name alone and is the archive's inference.

Sources: PWI February 1988 trade probes

Likely

A Factory Pipe Products flyer, dated by the Internet Archive to 1990, names Westcoast among the makers of aftermarket short-body watercraft pipes that its silencer is said to fit. Reading that name as this company, which registered an exhaust pipe mark the same year, is the archive's inference.

Sources: Factory Pipe flyer 1990; USPTO record serial 73812901

1996 and 1998 · Confirmed

Both editions of the handbook list the company among the aftermarket manufacturers Bombardier says it recommends: the 1996 edition with a note to contact it for its list of services, and the 1998 edition for racing parts and carbon fibre hulls, at Anaheim, California.

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

Patents and trademarks

1989 and 1990 · Confirmed

USPTO's record of the WESTCOAST mark, applied for on 3 May 1989 and registered on 20 March 1990 for single-rider and two-rider recreational jet boats and their structural parts, names Westcoast Performance Products USA, Inc., a California corporation, as owner. The registration was cancelled in 2001 when no declaration of continued use was filed. The registrant claims first use on 1 January 1981.

Sources: USPTO record serial 73797387

1989 and 1990 · Confirmed

The same corporation registered WORKS PIPE, applied for on 17 July 1989 and registered on 6 November 1990, for exhaust pipes for other than land vehicles and their components; the registration was cancelled in 1997. The registrant claims first use on 12 April 1985.

Sources: USPTO record serial 73812901

On the race sheets

Likely

The Antioch News of 28 July 1995 reports Round 6 of the Westcoast Performance Nationals, a stop of the Budweiser Jet Sports Tour, at Illinois Beach State Park. That the tour's title is this company's name is read from the name alone.

Sources: Antioch News 28 July 1995

1996 and 1998 · Confirmed

Bombardier's Sea-Doo Racing Handbook of 1996 quotes the Pro Racing Team Manager of Westcoast Performance Products on what a team manager looks for in a racer, and the 1998 edition puts the same question to the Westcoast Performance Products Racing Team Manager, who signs for Westcoast Performance Racing.

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

1997 · Likely

Group K's comments of 1997 on magazine articles say Bombardier had chosen the company to field its IJSBA tour effort for the previous two years, and describe a Splash shop tour of April 1997 showing a Westcoast pipe for Sea-Doo's laydown Rave engine and a PWI article of the same month on Westcoast bolt-on parts for the Sea-Doo XP, a flame arrestor among them.

Sources: Group K Between the Lines 1997

Names as printed

WESTCOAST PERFORMANCE PRODUCTS USA, INC. (USPTO record serial 73797387); Westcoast (Factory Pipe flyer 1990); Westcoast Performance (PWI February 1988 trade probes); Westcoast Performance Racing (Sea-Doo Racing Handbook 1998); WPP (Group K Between the Lines 1997)

Elsewhere in the archive

• History chapter: The aftermarket: exhaust pipes and engine parts
• Event: IJSBA National Tour
• Organisation: International Jet Sports Boating Association
• Era: The early years, in print
• Era: The makers and their machines

What the archive has not read (2)

• A Cycle News classified of 3 September 1980 offers pump parts under the name Westcoast Jet Ski of Anaheim, California. No held document ties that name to Westcoast Performance Products, so it is not joined here (searched the archive's mirror and research cache, 2026-10-16).
• No independent document dates the founding, and no state registry record was read, so no formation date is given (searched the archive's mirror and research cache, 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.
• 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.
• Factory Pipe flyer 1990 (archive.org): Factory Pipe Products, Pipe Dream (promotional flyer, 1990; archive.org OCR), Factory Pipe Products, held by the Internet Archive, 1990; manufacturer primary, medium. A promotional flyer, undated in its text but quoting magazine tests of July and August 1990, for a Kawasaki 550 pipe and a silencer. Its fitment line names aftermarket pipe makers by brand. Medium for what the advertisement prints, including the brand names; its performance claims and testimonials are the company's and are not used. The OCR is partly broken and the phone numbers are replaced in the held copy.
• USPTO record serial 73812901 (tsdr.uspto.gov): Trademark Status and Document Retrieval record, serial 73812901, registration 1620829 (WORKS PIPE), United States Patent and Trademark Office, 1990-11-06; government, high. WORKS PIPE, filed 17 July 1989, registered 6 November 1990 and cancelled on 12 May 1997 for want of a Section 8 declaration, for exhaust pipes for other than land vehicles and their components. The owner is Westcoast Performance Products USA, Inc., a California corporation; the registrant claims first use on 12 April 1985, its own sworn claim. Read on 2026-10-16; the published date is the registration date. The held copy omits the owner's and correspondent's addresses.
• 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)
• USPTO record serial 73797387 (tsdr.uspto.gov): Trademark Status and Document Retrieval record, serial 73797387, registration 1587668 (WESTCOAST), United States Patent and Trademark Office, 1990-03-20; government, high. WESTCOAST, filed 3 May 1989, registered 20 March 1990 and cancelled on 28 April 2001 for a missed declaration, for single-rider and two-rider recreational jet boats and structural parts of them. The registrant, a California corporation, claims first use on 1 January 1981; that is its own sworn claim and is not a founding date. The record was read in a browser session of 22 September 2026 and the held copy is that session's notes, with the owner address replaced in place. The published date is the registration date.
• Antioch News 28 July 1995 (archive.org): Antioch News (Illinois), 28 July 1995, Competition heats up in Lake Michigan, with the continued results (OCR excerpt), Antioch News, Lakeland Newspapers (Illinois), issue held by the Internet Archive, 1995-07-28; editorial, medium. A local newspaper's correspondent's report of Round 6 of the Westcoast Performance Nationals of the Budweiser Jet Sports Tour at Illinois Beach State Park, with a results list continued on a later page. Medium as an independent newspaper report from raw OCR; it is a regional report of one round, not the association's own sheet, and the continued list prints place, name and a hometown for each rider.
• 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.

Changes to this page

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

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