1991 Cobalt 222 7.4L/V8 Bravo HELP PLEASE

[AsLan7]

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Good Lord...a ground up restoration. You don't see that much with Cobalt boats. What an art. Thank you for posting pics my friend. Got her out of the ICU and ready to run a marathon. Feel free to post more.

btw, that guy with the mask on surrounded by fiberglass flecks....no way Covid could beat him. I think he may have lungs of steel (or fiberglass) .

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[Dudley67]

Great update pics, you sir are a true fanatic of the brand! We await the completed pics and hear about the launch!

[Big Block Power]

Impressive my friend. That's a beautiful lake you have there as well. I tried to Google map it to there and i ran out of roads

[bruceb58]

I would have been wearing a lot better mask working with all that fiberglass dust!

Looks good.

How is the engine?

[Ahe500]

Hi this is today’s progress.

[Ahe500]

Impressive my friend. That's a beautiful lake you have there as well. I tried to Google map it to there and i ran out of roads

I hope this are better than google

[Ahe500]

I would have been wearing a lot better mask working with all that fiberglass dust!

Looks good.

How is the engine?

One more week for the engine to come, we didn’t open it. Full mantainance and new spare part for usual. Any heads up?

[bruceb58]

One more week for the engine to come, we didn’t open it. Full mantainance and new spare part for usual. Any heads up?

Oh! so you didn't see what the original engine was like?

Where did you get a new engine?

I had a scare with my current(for sale) non Cobalt boat and was looking at a new 7.4L engine. Figured around $6k plus other parts of around $1k.

[bruceb58]

I see a lot of threads on other forums with ground up restores. A lot of them are on boats that don't really deserve it in the first place....like Bayliners.

Nice to do it on a boat that actually has some underlying value.

Out of curiosity, what did you do with the stringers and transom?

[Ahe500]

One more week for the engine to come, we didn’t open it. Full mantainance and new spare part for usual. Any heads up?

Oh! so you didn't see what the original engine was like?

Where did you get a new engine?

I had a scare with my current(for sale) non Cobalt boat and was looking at a new 7.4L engine. Figured around $6k plus other parts of around $1k.

Is the original engine and we changed all posible things in outside by new. The guy working on it told me is running good but I haven’t seen it running. I will post the update once in the water.

[Ahe500]

I see a lot of threads on other forums with ground up restores. A lot of them are on boats that don't really deserve it in the first place....like Bayliners.

Nice to do it on a boat that actually has some underlying value.

Out of curiosity, what did you do with the stringers and transom?

Transom was completely damaged... we made it completely out of fiberglass and coremat. Please check pics. For stringers only had to change one to fiberglass all other where in good condition.

[Big Block Power]

Love this! Lots of Donzi guys doing this on the old classics!
Do you do this by trade? I have to ask what do you do?
You paint you glass. That's awesome!
Those pictures of the area are much better than Google!

[Lockey14s]

very impressive!! keep up the good work!!!

[akorcovelos]

Wow, love this, keep the updates coming! Great color choice too!

[Ahe500]

Hi, thanks for all your comments, definitely the gas I need to keep posting updates!