What to do when scrapping a 480

Brasco · Post by **Brasco** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 11:17 am

Hi all,

I notice quite a few people have experience in scapping a 480. I was wondering if anyone has advice on which bits to try and salvage before it goes to 'steel cube heaven'?
I'm thinking more about inside the engine bay area, because I know the things worth taking out of the cabin/bodywork.

Oh, it's a Turbo by the way.

volviz · Post by **volviz** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 11:20 am

front spoiler.. gimeeeee

also take off electric windows

from engine.. Turbo, MAF, ECU.... ohh... take all engine and put under the bed

Big Brother · Post by **Big Brother** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 11:44 am

I had everything but the gearbox engine and interior out of my spares car, then just towed it to the scrappy on 4 wheels from a vauxhall that was already at the scrappy

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guitarcarfanatic · Post by **guitarcarfanatic** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 11:46 am

Look in the yellow pages for a metal scrap merchant. I got Â£50 for scrap metal for my last one!

Brasco · Post by **Brasco** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 12:29 pm

Guy's, I guess I should have worded the title better!!!

I've scrapped cars before. Before I scrap this one, I was just wondering what are the best (and easiest) bits to cherry-pick out of the engine bay.

MAF is a good call, I suppose the idle valve could be useful. Unfortuately the turbo is goosed, which is part of the reason it's being scrapped.

Is the CEM worth pulling out?

sallysal · Post by **sallysal** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 12:35 pm

Is that The Baroness you're scrapping Ad? saw her at Lincoln -poor old girl
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Brasco · Post by **Brasco** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 12:46 pm

sallysal wrote:Is that The Baroness you're scrapping Ad? saw her at Lincoln -poor old girl
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Indeed, winter showed that she leaks like the elderly lady she is.

(I say that, she's actually only a J, but the body on them whitey's is prone corrosion)

Ally · Post by **Ally** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 12:48 pm

Take as much as you have room to store would be my simple answer. You never know when something's going to fail and it can make keeping your good car on the road significantly cheaper.

It also depends on how much time you can afford to spend stripping. If you can't keep the whole engine strip off all the ancillaries like alternator, starter motor, power steering pump, ignition module, MAF, any sensor you can get your hands on, (lambda sensor, flywheel sensor, gearbox speedo sensor, temp. sensors, radiator cooling fan switch), maybe the mega-fuse, the throttle body, header tanks, washer bottle, pop-up motors. And anything else that looks like it'll come off easily like every relay out the relay box on top of the bulkhead. Might also be worth taking the brake calipers (especially the back ones).

Hope this helps...

Brasco · Post by **Brasco** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 12:55 pm

Ally wrote:Hope this helps...

It does Ally, thanks.

VanDerGraaf · Post by **VanDerGraaf** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 1:20 pm

I was going to suggest some things but that is the perfect advice really.
I have to go up to the spares Turbo and take off some major body parts soon as well as the turbocharger and some of the decent engine bits that are left!

JohnTurbo · Post by **JohnTurbo** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 8:50 pm

The way it works is that EVERYTHING you leave on the breaker will break the week after it gets cubed. Be safe.

robin_xr4i · Post by **robin_xr4i** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 7:28 am

Safe everything in the engine bay turbo, lump, head, box, sensors the lot!

Like Volviz said put it under the bed!