1982 32 Cobra Raceboat Restoration
12-15-2011, 08:48 AM
#52
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Congrats Johnny, I looked at that boat for years sitting on the rack, always wondered what the deck looked like... nice vid too
12-15-2011, 09:15 AM
#53
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RacerThread Starter
Thanks Rob
Shes chillin in the background here too
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdF3o...eature=related
Shes chillin in the background here too
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdF3o...eature=related
12-15-2011, 12:04 PM
#55
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So this Yellow one is the same boat that was The Chief and Correct me if I'm wrong Tommy Hofstetter's boat back in the day?
Or was there a few of these Yellow ones ?
THIS ONE was at least with twin stagger SBCs racing here In Finland 20yrs ago seems it still has Rosqvist's company decals on the hatches ( Yhtiöt=Companies/holdings in Finnish. )
This or that pure BadASS in My Book!
check the link ..this is how it looked like back in the day.
http://youtu.be/Yovy8v6JUhU
Or was there a few of these Yellow ones ?
THIS ONE was at least with twin stagger SBCs racing here In Finland 20yrs ago seems it still has Rosqvist's company decals on the hatches ( Yhtiöt=Companies/holdings in Finnish. )
This or that pure BadASS in My Book!
check the link ..this is how it looked like back in the day.
http://youtu.be/Yovy8v6JUhU
I am pretty sure in your vid (@242) that is Tommy in the
boat with the navy sweetshirt and blonde curly hair.
Awesome vid .... what year ??
in Ft. Lauderdale . I had sea trialed that boat with a friend whom was interested in buying back in 1995? (?94). Tommy had throttled that day in some pretty BIG gulfstream waters, She had 500 + H.P.S.B.'s & 3a'S (not sure). That boat flew level with minimum trim running over 80 +, I remember looking around from down in the trough and I could'nt see the striped exhaust stacks (candycains) in Port Everglades LOL...
Needless to say the friend didn't purchase that day, and regreated it !
AWESOME BOAT .........
12-15-2011, 12:14 PM
#56
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IMO I would try and keep the weight down when rigging that boat. The bravos are a little lighter than the trs/crash box set up it had. Maybe some aluminum heads , crossovers, Y pipe exhaust. Even possibly making some light weight hatches because the aluminum ones are pretty hefty. Are you going to core the deck?
12-15-2011, 01:58 PM
#57
Driver-441
RacerThread Starter
Motors have aluminium heads, etc. The hatches are heavy, we'll see how much spare time we end up with lol. Dave put some core in the back of the deck, the deck does have some core in it up front but a lot of it is soggy around the cleats. We will fix all the bad core
12-15-2011, 07:55 PM
#58
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The Y-Pipe boats sound Sooooo Bad Azzzz, But Unfortunatly these days they (Y-pipes) are rare unless you have new ones made, which is pricey. Your going to have an Awesome Rig when you get it done.
