Kawasaki model line
JS400
The Kawasaki JS400 is recorded here for a single model year, 1976. The 1976 JS400 is recorded as a carburetted two-stroke, with the engine recorded as 400.
At a glance
- Years made
- 1976
- Engine, as the records hold it
- 400
- Strokes
- Two-stroke
- Fuel system
- Carburettor
- Hull type
- Stand-up
- Model years on record
- 1
- Checked
- The one JS400 model year is not verified, which needs a check against the maker's own document, which the row names, and an engine figure; it names its source below.
Kawasaki numbers name the engine by its size class and are not measurements: a 550 is a 531, a 650 a 635, a 750 a 743.
Year by year
| Model year | Engine, as the records hold it | Fuel system | Strokes | Hull type | What the record says | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 400 | Carburettor | Two-stroke | Stand-up | The first mass-produced Jet Ski, per the JET SKI Museum page cited below. Kawasaki's own WSAA and WSAB came first, in 1972, and the origins page records them. The debut year is the least confident figure in this block: accounts place early production anywhere from 1973 to 1977. One model year is held here because one Kawasaki document dates the JS400, to 1976; two JetDrift pages run the model to 1981, which no Kawasaki document held here supports (checked against Kawasaki's parts catalogue, which carries no JS400 after 1976, and the Kawasaki histories held here, 2026-10-06), and the origins page prints that span as contested. | Source 1 |
Sources
- Canadian Kawasaki Motors, JET SKI Museum, Kawasaki personal watercraft history 1973 to 2003, archived 2008-06-10, archived copy of kawasaki.ca Retrieved 2026-09-10. Dates the first mass production Jet Ski, the JS400 (JS400-A), to 1976. (model year 1976)
Related
On the Kawasaki model timeline
The timeline dates the JS400 by release year, which can sit a year from its model years here.
Cite this page
“Kawasaki JS400”, BaddJet archive, https://baddjetarchive.com/reference/kawasaki/js400/
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