Motiva Doubles Sea Doo RXP’s Stock HP
Motiva Performance Engineering’s R &D project with Ricky Trevizo’s Sea Doo Jet Ski is paying horsepower dividends, so keep your eye on Ricky during the R5WaterXRacing competition at Lake Dallas during the July 4 weekend.
Why? Hear it from Ricky himself: “We were dead in the water with 
stock 200 hp from my RXP until I teamed up with Dave Rochau and Motiva last October, and we’re now up to 400 hp and headed toward 500 hp,” said Ricky, who races out of El Paso.
“In four days of tuning at Elephant Butte Lake (in New Mexico), I’m seeing more horsepower than I’ve seen since I entered the sport in 2006,” Ricky said.
Motiva ‘Light Years Ahead’ of Other Tuners
Now, Ricky is poised to contend in the R5WaterXRacing’s Rounds 7 and 8 on Lake Dallas. When we recently finished modifications in his 
jet ski’s electronic control module during our last days of testing on Elephant Butte Lake, and he saw the increased speed, something like another 12 mph, Ricky told me, “World class. I knew you were the way to go.”
“Motiva is light years ahead of other tuners,” Ricky told me.
Now, that’s a compliment, especially since I didn’t know anything 
about jet skis before I first got Ricky’s call last fall. What I do know as a master engine tuner is turbochargers and turbocharging. Once we got some basic wiring issues straightened out, his horsepower started climbing.
There’s a little more about our collaboration, plus some of our other speed projects at Motiva Performance Engineering.
– Dave Rochau