Thread: Junk yard parts question

I was under a GTP today in the junkyard and I noticed someone did an Cat delete. While I may never know why they did the cat delete it got me wondering what other mods may have been done and sitting in the junkyard for me to get a deal on. I went for two cars that had been in for three weeks but they looked as if they had been there for three months because of how picked clean they are. Does anyone have any luck with aftermarket parts at the junkyard such as headers, cat back exhaust, K&N products, or real juicy stuff like alternators and transmissions? Are there a lot of people who go through junkyard cars before they get to the yard?

Oh yea those are pricy. I got fenders for my Chevy at a junkyard in Cali which were in good shape then I moved to NC and could fine none in good shape. I'm trying to keep my eyes out for the diamond in the ruff type stuff like some ZZP stuff that no one noticed or something. Why delete the cat if your not going to do anything else. Or maybe the junker just cut out the cat and slapped some pipe in there to drive it to the spot. But the other two cars next to me just had holes where the cat should be?

Believe it or not my girlfriend likes to go to the yard with me she goes though trunks and glove boxes and such, she has found, new shoes, towels, blankets, cds and her big find (she peeled these off a car) a set of GTP Badges which are going on ebay soon

oh nice. I picked up martini shaker at the junk yard without a lid for 50 cents and had a blast of a new years thanks to it. I saw a good set of GTP Badges last time I went but they were for an older car than mine so I left them. When I went today I looked for them but all I found was a guy who wanted to borrow a flat head screw driver...

And when I said new I meant they were still in bags with receipts, oddest find was a 2001 GTP that had been totaled and still had paperwork in Glove box judging from the date on the loan papers and the date the yard got it in it took this guy only about 8 days and (judging from the back seat) 11 beers to total it. OUCH!!

lol, nice. bummer about the total. Thats a guy in a lot of debt now. I just picked up a GTP from a guy who drove it for one month before blew oil everywhere on him and he parked it for 7 months. It was a hole in the piston. I gave him 150 bucks and some snow board gear that global warming has render usless hear in NC. He paid 3.3k for the car and had not even gotten the title in the mail when it blew up. Sounds fishy to me. Oh when I was there today I noticed a LOT of engine fires in the Grand Prix cars...three at least.

There was a recall on GPs for those plastic wire organizers that attach to the front valve cover and organize the plug wires for cylinders 1,3,5. Valve cover leaks, oil-coated plastic heats up and catches fire. Thee recall was only going to replace that plastic piece with a metal piece, not install new valve cover gaskets....

There's a federal law that prohibits re-sales of cats by junkyards or auto recyclers. I found this out when trying to buy a used muffler. Called a bunch of JYs in several states and all said the same thing. First thing they do when the car hits the yard is cut out the exhaust and send the cat to the recycler that handles the heavy metals inside. The muffler and rest of the exhaust just get tossed in the crusher. Where they cut it probably depends of the easiest point for each vehicle.