i want to get a junked lower&upper intake manifolds to try and see how well my skills are on p&p'ing, do you guys just get a local listing of junkyards then ask for stangs on your year?

 

I just get a listing and ask but I tend to look for the whole car

 

Get online, I used to work for a huge junkyard company with locations everywhere. Their corporate guys are douchebags, but they have a ton of stuff and ship it everywhere. Go to LKQCrop.com and search around your area. If you can't find it online, call them. I bought a 90mm MAF off a termi for $75 shipped, and just bought a cluster for an 01 for $45 shipped. When I worked there I gutted an 01 of everything, full interior, including headliner, wheels, bumper, axle, trunk lid, brake lights, mirrors, and the wheels had brand new tires, all for $0!!!!! Priviledges of having a ****ty job.

Ryan

 

prestigemustang.com

i love searching this site, but i have never bought from them

 

eh both sites were kind of iffy, LKQCorp.com had only various car parts with various years and prestige is located in GA, with no used parts available on the net

 

sort-of, but I ask for the year group for the part I know that hasn't changed in that year group. I live north of Austin Texas, yards are scarce believe it or not. The supposedly good ones are south of Austin: an hour away.

And on an earlier foray I checked with a localguy who had access to their computer/net inventory. I was looking for hard to find 1976-77 Mustang II parts. That yard was a 3 hour drive one-way. But they had the stuff I was looking for.

 

i guess its rare for there to be an online inventory for a junk yard lol

 

perhaps... I have seen all ranges of yards, from those that send you out on your own with your own tools (I like as long as they tell you exactly which 20-acre patch they put your kind-of car in) to those where you simply don't get any further than the front office: these guys pull the part for you, and call-up or get online searches if they don't have the car at their yard.

 

www.car-parts.com

List 98% of the salvage yards in the country.

 

Im positive LKQ was a major power seller on ebay. Last time I looked was a year ago and the feedback was around 10k. They must sell thousands of parts a day.