I love junkyard gold.....

[GTO Jimmy]

Got an explorer intake and GT40 heads today for $50! Man I love the junkyard.

Spotted some more stuff out there im gunna go back and get on friday, 4 cylinder springs, the missing side moldings I need and I believe some 24lbs injectors in a truck. They had blue tops on them, so I imagine they are 24's.

 

[1/4mile_runner]

 

[Darkwriter77]

Damn, dude. Helluva good score!

 

[MAC'n89Blckstng]

Thats bad ass!

 

[GTO Jimmy]

Damn, dude. Helluva good score!

Yeah I was pretty happy man, it rained yesterday so the junkyard was a swamp! After wading through the muck and finding 15 six cylinder explorers I finally found it. A 96' Explorer with the 5.0.

I expected to pop the hood and find it gutted, but this baby was unmolested 100%! So like any red blooded hotrodder I went to molesting!

As I was ripping the intake off a guy came up and the conversation went like this:
Him "Holy crap is that a 5 liter?"
Me "Yep"
Him "Damn man I have been out here every week looking for one!"
Me "Ha ha I must have got lucky"
Him "So your just taking the intake right?"
Me "Oh and leave the GT40's for you? Nah."
Him "Damn you must own a fox, well congrats dude"

I love winning! Ha ha.

 

[Mustang5L5]

It's always funny to go to a junkyard and see a Mustang that's been picked though. You can tell a Mustang enthusiast has already been through it when you see the prime parts already taken!


Last week i was in a yard when i came across a '95 V6. All the brake stuff was taken EXCEPT for the spindles. I was so tempted to just unbolt them and get them off.

I have to go back next week for a few peices...i bet they will be gone

 

[GTO Jimmy]

Damn, dude. Helluva good score!

It's always funny to go to a junkyard and see a Mustang that's been picked though. You can tell a Mustang enthusiast has already been through it when you see the prime parts already taken!


Last week i was in a yard when i came across a '95 V6. All the brake stuff was taken EXCEPT for the spindles. I was so tempted to just unbolt them and get them off.

I have to go back next week for a few peices...i bet they will be gone

Ha ha yep! I know that I will never find decent LX tails or clear headlights, and it pisses me off cause I keep finding cracked lx lenses. If people would just take them off the right way they wouldnt be ruined.

 

[ryan218]

Got an explorer intake and GT40 heads today for $50! Man I love the junkyard.

Spotted some more stuff out there im gunna go back and get on friday, 4 cylinder springs, the missing side moldings I need and I believe some 24lbs injectors in a truck. They had blue tops on them, so I imagine they are 24's.

look for a mark 8 or lincon contential. they have 24 lbs in them that will work with our cars. the truck ones unless its a pickup with a 460 will not work.

 

[Shaolin Crane]

It's always funny to go to a junkyard and see a Mustang that's been picked though. You can tell a Mustang enthusiast has already been through it when you see the prime parts already taken!


Last week i was in a yard when i came across a '95 V6. All the brake stuff was taken EXCEPT for the spindles. I was so tempted to just unbolt them and get them off.

I have to go back next week for a few peices...i bet they will be gone

there are so few running foxes around here that i can go down to the pick a-apart and find at least 40 foxes, and about the same number of sn95's and none of the good parts are ever taken, **** i probably could make decent money by buying the spindles off the cars for 75 a pair and selling them for 150 a pair

 

[Bullitt95]

Got an explorer intake and GT40 heads today for $50! Man I love the junkyard.

Nice one! You know the old cliches:

One man's junk is another man's jewel.
One man's trash is another man's treasure.
One man's garbage is another man's gold.

 

[89stangGT]

Ha ha yep! I know that I will never find decent LX tails or clear headlights, and it pisses me off cause I keep finding cracked lx lenses. If people would just take them off the right way they wouldnt be ruined.

Keep looking man! I have found two sets so far in mint shape. It just takes some patience.

 

[ill advised]

Great score, GTO Jimmy. Wow!

What Pick-A-Part do you go to? The one that I go to has a lot of foxes but the good parts are almost always gone by the time I get there. Part of the reason is that the people who work there actually take off the good/valuable parts before letting the customers take parts.

I see you're in L.A. That sounds like the Sun Valley yard (Pendleton/Glenoaks). In all my years of trekking up there the best score I've had is a pair of excellent condition front seats, which frankly I was excited as hell to find. lol Oh, and a cherry armrest.

 

[GTO Jimmy]

Went back today and got some 4 cylinder springs for $15. I love my pick n pull.

 

[blacknsilvr]

going tomorrow to a close by pick and pull and looking for GT40 upper and lower myself. Damn good find for $50.00 Congrats!

 

[Deleted member 87397]

Spindles? I need spindles. Who's got Spindles? I'm actually going hunting for them tomorrow.

 

[hsean]

i found the inner fender plastic covers for the front both for 20 bucks at the pick and pull how much do they normally go for new? going back to pic up the condensor that i already pulled and forgot .hopefully it is still there tomorrow

 

[jmd2914]

there are so few running foxes around here that i can go down to the pick a-apart and find at least 40 foxes, and about the same number of sn95's and none of the good parts are ever taken, **** i probably could make decent money by buying the spindles off the cars for 75 a pair and selling them for 150 a pair

NOTE TO SELF:
1. google where covina is
2. go to bank for money
3. drive to covina
4. rape and pillage pick n pull for mustang parts

 

[Shaolin Crane]

NOTE TO SELF:
1. google where covina is
2. go to bank for money
3. drive to covina
4. rape and pillage pick n pull for mustang parts

i think im about 5 hours from napa, and get this, ive even seen working ashtray doors on the foxes there

 

[carbed87]

look for a mark 8 or lincon contential. they have 24 lbs in them that will work with our cars. the truck ones unless its a pickup with a 460 will not work.

oh yeah, i forgot about that


so are they gt-40 p's, because i had some non p's off a later model explorer and i didn't feel much improvement

 

[Shaolin Crane]

oh yeah the pick apart by my house has a TON of 93-98 lincoln mark's there and at only 260 an engine