1995 XP 800 Project

[MPower]

Just picked it up pretty cheap. Going to be a long winter project and require hours and hours cleaning it up.

Any tips or comments are much appreciated as I have little experience with this model ski.

Also, any tricks for cleaning up the oxidized gelcoat?



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[DaveC]

I have seen a couple of these pop up lately, what price range have they been selling for ?

[MPower]

$400 for this one

[DaveC]

Sounds like a fair deal, thanks for the info.

[kecheme]

I'm Jealous..

[frohboy33]

Does the thing Run? For the gelcoat, you could try what this guy did on his GSX's. http://www.luxury4play.com/mid-west/...utolavish.html It sounds like a ton of work the way he did it though. I would think a wet sand followed by a polishing compound and wax would work as well.

[MPower]

Does the thing Run? For the gelcoat you try what this guy did on his GSX's. http://www.luxury4play.com/mid-west/...utolavish.html It sounds like a ton of work the way he did it though. I would think a wet sand followed by a polishing compound and wax would work as well.

According to the previous owner it ran before he put it on the trailer 1-2 years ago. I'm going in expecting the motor to be junk, but who knows.

Thanks so much for that link, that is very helpful! I'm going to start with a heavy compound, but I expect wet sanding will be necessary. Taping up the decals is going to be a pain but worth it to not damage them.

[Spimothy Leary]

wet sand for sure it will come out nice
big time pita to save the decals, i'd dump them myself but I can accept the reasons behind the choice.
its a steal at 400 not matter what
and why have we seen like 4 or 5 of these cropping up lately super cheap , just a run on 95 800's ?
also i've read probably 20 times that they made 500
but somebody recently posted 2500, anybody wanna chime in on the correct # ?

[getemkustom]

Just picked up a xp 800 my self nice ride

[WOT 88]

wet sand for sure it will come out nice
big time pita to save the decals, i'd dump them myself but I can accept the reasons behind the choice.
its a steal at 400 not matter what
and why have we seen like 4 or 5 of these cropping up lately super cheap , just a run on 95 800's ?
also i've read probably 20 times that they made 500
but somebody recently posted 2500, anybody wanna chime in on the correct # ?

If it were any other year XP, I would say yeah dump the decals....but it's a rare ski and the original decals add to it

[Spimothy Leary]

If it were any other year XP, I would say yeah dump the decals....but it's a rare ski and the original decals add to it

ya, thats why I said, I accept the reasons behind the choice, especially if they are in pretty good shape, and they appear to be.
I just can't stand that color !

[MPower]

Def going to keep the decals

[BigDaddyRXP]

Nice find! For $400 bucks... I'd have bought it to, even though I already have one. I've always been told that there were only 500 production models released, and only 50 of them having the factory overbored 787 type X engine in it... but who really knows

[Joe Stang]

Always heard 500 as well. Never heard any other number. My decals are not perfect but no way will I remove them.

[getemkustom]

Good deal. Will be restoring one myself this winter.