This coming Sunday is a 'all you can carry for $X' event at a nearby salvage yard, and I'm planning on hitting it and making the most out of it for my 1998 Riviera Challenge car. I've got a pretty good idea of some things that I'm going to be grabbing, but there are a few things I'm curious about as well as wanting general ideas.
First off- one of the things I'm probably going to be looking at doing is making an A2W intercooler for the supercharger. Apparently Ford Probe heater cores are a good fit for this, so I'm going to be looking to grab one of those. For this I'll also need:
-An electric water pump
-A radiator/heat exchanger that will go in front of the radiator
Are there any cars that I should be looking for that I could potentially find those parts on?
Are there other parts that are either good upgrades for 3800 engines (I'm planning on pulling a Northstar TB even if I may not use it), handling upgrades for the Riv, or just generally good things to keep an eye out for? Thanks!
you are overthinking this, Just Bungie cord a bag of Ice to the Intake/SC and after each run Serve Scotch and water.
Oh, I don't doubt that I'm overthinking things- but it's something I'm good at.
Still, these 'all you can carry' things only happen a few times a year, and since I plan to grab a few things that I know I can sell and recoup what they charge everything else I grab is free- both in budget and in real life- so I figure I should grab everything I can and then I can sell whatever I don't use or save it for later (at essentially zero cost/budget hit )
Doing some research myself, it looks like most hybrids have an electric water pump- and there's a 1st-gen Prius in the yard. Hope it's in the same place as the 2nd gens, since I had to replace that on the one on I had a few years back.
Robbie
UberDork
3/22/17 11:51 a.m.
There was a newspaper story a long time ago in Denver about a guy that chained two Subaru engines to a driveshaft and carried them all out on one of those 'everything you can carry' days.
Me and my buddy Big John piled a bunch of parts into a hood and carried the hood out. Each of us paid the all you can carry fee. Long seatbelts make good load straps.
There's a local legend here who somehow found a Dana 60 front axle in the yards and carried the thing down the exit alley and through the endzone on all-you-can-carry day. That's something north of 500 pounds. The upshot though is that modern medicine makes new advances in back surgery every year.
java230
SuperDork
3/22/17 1:03 p.m.
Robbie wrote:
There was a newspaper story a long time ago in Denver about a guy that chained two Subaru engines to a driveshaft and carried them all out on one of those 'everything you can carry' days.
Not sure they are subies, but googling that makes for some interesting pictures of people carrying things.
https://www.google.com/search?q=all+you+can+carry+junkyard+engines&rlz=1C1KMZB_enUS523US523&espv=2&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiKrNPh2OrSAhUHJZQKHVKwD8wQ_AUICCgD&biw=1920&bih=925#imgrc=67u-WFx9frd2KM:
For this one, you're allowed up to 6' of rope and a 3' pipe. It's the same rules as AngryCorvair mentioned regarding multiple people- 2 people can work together and carry things but both pay the $80 fee.
My general plan is to get the spoilers, sway bars, and STBs that I want- things that are fairly long and (relatively) light- and use the rope & seat belts (hadn't thought of that- was planning on grabbing some longer wires...) to be able to carry those on my back and carry everything else in my arms. I'm hoping I can pull a piece of carpet to collect things more easily. Would LOVE to figure out a way to carry 2 wheels as well- there's a set of 20's on one of the cars I'm going to pull stuff from that I know I could sell for more than the fee- but I both doubt being able to engineer carrying everything and being strong enough to do so...
Some of the newer euro imports have electric booster pumps for the heater core that would be perfect for an a2w intercoooler.
the inverter cooling pump from almost any hybrid are awesome little pumps that move huge amounts of fluid for there small size.
Hmmm. The only Prius in the yard (according to their inventory, which is notoriously inaccurate...) is a 2002, which according to Rock Auto doesn't have an electric inverter pump- but some other searching says that it does. It also appears to have an inverter cooler which looks like it would make a rather nice intercooler radiator, so I'll have to see if it's intact and grab it as well as the pump. Those plus a nice heater core to use as the actual intercooler, some hose (may as well grab that from the Prius as well), and a bottle to use as a reservoir should make for a nice, cheap- or essentially free if I can sell off things from the run to zero it out- intercooler.