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Scrap metal!

GAFF

GAFF

PittState Automotive Tech
SO I have a bunch of left over l36 parts and a beat up l67 tb.

Im planing on scraping the CAT/downpipe.

Just wondering do the scrap places take all engine parts. I have heads, a tb, cross over and manifolds, and some other metal crap like brackets and stuff.

Would I be better trying to sell the parts still or would the scrap yard give me a decent bit of cash.
 


Yes they take all types of metal, the aluminum down here gets around $.30/lb and steel gets $.09/lb you'd be better off selling them, other than the cat... the last time I went to the scrap yard I had 937 lbs of steel and 63 lbs of aluminum and got $98
 


you may also make some calls, alot of muffler shops will either know the people that buy converters or they will buy them straight from you... the internals are worth quite a bit depending on supply and demand.

just a thought for making the most of what you have
 
yeah sell em

i sold my heads for like.... 50$ + shipping on here

and im sure you got the TB Powdercoated/ported someone would pay even more?
 
Well took all the **** off the tb and dont know how to get it all back right and its painted black.
 
yeah the only time it was really worth me scrapping was when it was $220 a ton and we hauled in 6k lbs at a time.
 
Your better off selling good parts off, they don't pay much.

I had a LOT of aluminum I took in a week ago. Gutters off my house, misc. aluminum car parts that were broken or mis machined, a big barrel of aluminum machining shavings, 80lbs of crushed aluminum cans, etc. One of the things I took in was a ditch find, it was a set of shoring devices for excavating. Like these:
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I should of cleaned them up, and sold them on ebay vs. taking them apart and scrapping them. I bet they would of fetched some good money there instead of scrapping them. Same goes for car parts that are still good. But the aluminum parts I took in were off a 2.2L GM engine, and I didn't want to mess with selling them.

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