i have a ton of scrap metal laying around my parents house. i am told this neeeds to be taken care of even though i think it looks really good. included in this mess are a couple of blown d15 engines that are no good. i am looking to find out what exactly the engine block is made of?

 

what do u think there made of????? same thing the head is made of and tranny housing

 

ALUMINUM

 

aluminum and iron.

 

dude u can turn in them blocks and get money for the aluminum.not sure how much buts somethings better then nuttin.

 

yeah that is why i am trying to figure out what exactly they are made of. if it is just straight aluminum they will go for around .70 a pound, but if they are mixed with somthing else then it will be a bout .01 a pound. i knew it was some kind of aluminum i just did not know if they where mixed. there is a big difference at the scrap yard

 

strip the d15 blocks to bars blaock,strip down your trannys to nuttin but empty housings,if u got lil **** like thermpstate houseings and **** there all alum. too.no i dont think they mix other metals with the alum. blocks,but yea dude load that **** up and haul it to the scrap yard.dont forget about copper too thats woth some moeny.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by classciv &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">yeah that is why i am trying to figure out what exactly they are made of. if it is just straight aluminum they will go for around .70 a pound, but if they are mixed with somthing else then it will be a bout .01 a pound. i knew it was some kind of aluminum i just did not know if they where mixed. there is a big difference at the scrap yard</TD></TR></TABLE>
The sleeves are iron. Some places are picky about that.

 

yeah i forgot about that, what is the best way to get the sleeves out for a backyard hacker like myself?

 

youll never get the whole sleeve out but ive smashed them apart with a sledge hammer for fun before, thats all D15's are good for anyways.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by vteckillenzc &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote"> i dont think they mix other metals with the alum.
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The sleeves are iron. </TD></TR></TABLE>exactly

 

damn i forgot all about the sleeves!

 

are they a brittle mettal, that will smash, expletive it i will just go beat them and find out. scrap metal is scrap metal. it was a d15 b1 i bought the whole car for $50 i think it would be cool to pay for it all just with the scrap metal from the engine

 

wow i didnt know u could just smash up the sleeves with a sleg!

 

I got around 40 bucks for a full truckload of blocks and headers and crap

 

did you seporate the steel from the aluminum? if you did you should have gotten a whole lot more

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by classciv &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">did you seporate the steel from the aluminum? if you did you should have gotten a whole lot more</TD></TR></TABLE>

seriously you can get $10 a rim for scrap aluminum rims here, and for a whole car you usually get $75

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by classciv &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">yeah that is why i am trying to figure out what exactly they are made of. if it is just straight aluminum they will go for around .70 a pound......</TD></TR></TABLE>.....The expensive aluminum is 6061 or 7075, recently alum has been sky rocketing....... It's killing our bottom line at work. Im taking a stab in the dark and say the aluminum that they used to cast the block is a 5000 series.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Heron of Alexandria &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">.....The expensive aluminum is 6061 or 7075, recently alum has been sky rocketing....... It's killing our bottom line at work. Im taking a stab in the dark and say the aluminum that they used to cast the block is a 5000 series. </TD></TR></TABLE>

so what does that usually go for at the scrap yard then. this is what i have been trying to figure out the whole time