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I have an 03 Response LX; This year I bought an 06 SAN 210 team from a friend of mine, but I still have the Response. For about two year I ran into the same problem...the truth...its tough to have a "ridiculous" wake with a "SKI" boat. The beginning of last year i found what juuust a little bit too much is weight does. We had right at 1500 lbs in fat sacs (a 440# on each side of engine and 650 behind the engine), and 3 people. It was nice at the beginning of the day, except you had to be VERY careful driving, esp. slowing down and if you were turning b/c water would come over the back. But we got careless and 4 more people got in... it was too much weight and we couldn't keep water from coming over the rear sides of the boat so i pulled it up to a sand bar. My day got worse and some big ass Bayliner was crusin about 10 mph 30 ft from the sandbar, and I'm sure you can guesss what happened. Luckily I had a lot of friends up there that day, so with buckets at first then 6 different fat sacs pumps to get the water out it was fine and no damage was done.
After that I ran into a friend of mine who went through the same problem with how to make a wake in a ski boat, and he helped me out. For the rest of the summer last year and the first part this year (Just got the SAN about a month ago) the set up on the response was actually VERY good. I've actually had friends ride behind my boat who have an x-2 and supra, and they love it. So this is what you need.
Put a 680# bag between your backseat and engine cover. I'll fit and your friends can face the rear with their feet on the ski locker and you have a nice lounge! Also put a 350# bag in the bow. that gives you like 1,030 lbs, plus 4 friends (avg. lets say 150-160 something like that...that's right at your limit for your boat). And you can always let water out of the sacs. They won't slosh as long as you let the air out of them. its also not a bad idea to keep a 85-150# fat sac "block" in there so you can keep the wakes even. On those smaller ski boats in peticular they can get uneven VERY easy.
Whether or not you put weight in the boat, if you are going to be wakeboarding behind a response (or other direct drive ski boat) the main 2 things that are a MUST.. First a Pylon or Tower (of course). Second... You need to get Malibu's Wedge! It won't make the wake alot "bigger" but those boats are designed to have a smooth wake for skiing. The wedge puts a nice lip on the top of it so you at least get good pop off of the wake. I'll post some pictures of my response and the wake. I'm going out on it today to try and sell it to somebody, so i'll get some pics up for ya.
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