Re: [biofuel] Help! Any parts worth scavenging?
Well, there already are numerous companies that import used Japanese engines into the US, supposedly because their is a law in Japan that engines have to be traded out after so many miles. I don't know if it would be worth it for the other parts. If you've spent much time in junkyards, you'll notice that other than engines, tranny's, and wheels, the yard owners don't find it pays to strip out the other stuff and instead wait for someone who wants that specific part to come, and then the buyer does the work. Usually, anyway -- I've seen some exception for places that do a mail order business in some cult cars, like VW buses and bugs. I can't think offhand of any Japanese cars that fit the cult car definition, but there are people who go to Europe and buy VW buses and Unimogs and haul them back to the US. And I know of someone who goes around the US and buys up Opel GTs and strips them and ships the parts to Europe. Speaking of which -- I lusted for an Opel GT for many years, finally bought one, started working on it, and turned right around and sold it to the first sucker that came along. Ugggh, what a piece of crap. So exquisitly beautiful on the outside, so totally crude underneath. On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 11:05:52AM +1000, Gobert wrote: - Original Message - From: Grahams [EMAIL PROTECTED] From a consignment store perspective, this looks like a great new money making venture... importing Japan's used cars! Hmm how much to ship one or those things? Also seriously though, what about other parts that may need to be replaced- doors, glass, tires etc. Here of course we use used parts for almost everything. Caroline Caroline I don't know about where you come from but in Australia there is a thriving industry based on low mileage imported Japanese vehicles and vehicle parts. Dropped my Hilux L diesel engine off for reconditioning at one such place in Cairns this morning. Shrink wrapped engines,gearboxes and components, all of oriental parentage, were on display. They also sell what they call half cuts. Literaly the front half of cars. Had dreams at one stage of slotting a Nissan FJ20 turbo into the front of a peugeot 504 I was restoring. Some might say sacrilidge but I think it would be OK as the FJ20 is DOHC and 4 valve per cylinder a configuration that Peugeot pioneered nearly a century ago. Regards, Paul Gobert. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.370 / Virus Database: 205 - Release Date: 5/06/02 Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send quot;unsubscribequot; messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ -- Harmon Seaver CyberShamanix http://www.cybershamanix.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Will You Find True Love? Will You Meet the One? Free Love Reading by phone! http://us.click.yahoo.com/Deo18C/zDLEAA/Ey.GAA/FGYolB/TM -~- Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send quot;unsubscribequot; messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [biofuel] Help! Any parts worth scavenging?
- Original Message - From: Grahams [EMAIL PROTECTED] From a consignment store perspective, this looks like a great new money making venture... importing Japan's used cars! Hmm how much to ship one or those things? Also seriously though, what about other parts that may need to be replaced- doors, glass, tires etc. Here of course we use used parts for almost everything. Caroline Caroline I don't know about where you come from but in Australia there is a thriving industry based on low mileage imported Japanese vehicles and vehicle parts. Dropped my Hilux L diesel engine off for reconditioning at one such place in Cairns this morning. Shrink wrapped engines,gearboxes and components, all of oriental parentage, were on display. They also sell what they call half cuts. Literaly the front half of cars. Had dreams at one stage of slotting a Nissan FJ20 turbo into the front of a peugeot 504 I was restoring. Some might say sacrilidge but I think it would be OK as the FJ20 is DOHC and 4 valve per cylinder a configuration that Peugeot pioneered nearly a century ago. Regards, Paul Gobert. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.370 / Virus Database: 205 - Release Date: 5/06/02 Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Will You Find True Love? Will You Meet the One? Free Love Reading by phone! http://us.click.yahoo.com/Deo18C/zDLEAA/Ey.GAA/FGYolB/TM -~- Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send quot;unsubscribequot; messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[biofuel] Help! Any parts worth scavenging?
I'm about to junk [* see note at bottom] a 1989 Nissan van (gasoline engine) with 43,000 miles on it, and in its place I'll be getting a 1989 Nissan van (DIESEL engine) with 27,000 miles on it. Both are automatic transmission vehicles; the former is 4WD and the latter 2WD. I would like to try running the diesel vehicle on carefully filtered waste vegetable oil and biodiesel, in a two-tank arrangement with either manual or temperature-controlled switching between the fuel systems. HERE IS MY QUESTION: Are there any parts worth scavenging from the outgoing gasoline vehicle, that will be useful in building the dual tank SVO system for the diesel vehicle? Thanks! Christopher Witmer Tokyo [* In Japan a car like this one -- more than ten years old -- has zero market value, despite its low mileage. I will have to pay money to junk it. Unlike the USA, there are few junkyards where people go to get parts, and there is not much of a used parts market. This car will probably be crushed into a metal, glass and rubber brick and stacked somewhere with a bunch of similar cars. The upside of this is that people like me who don't mind old cars can get them for free or for a pittance.] Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send quot;unsubscribequot; messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [biofuel] Help! Any parts worth scavenging?
From a consignment store perspective, this looks like a great new money making venture... importing Japan's used cars! Hmm how much to ship one or those things? Also seriously though, what about other parts that may need to be replaced- doors, glass, tires etc. Here of course we use used parts for almost everything. Caroline [* In Japan a car like this one -- more than ten years old -- has zero market value, despite its low mileage. I will have to pay money to junk it. Unlike the USA, there are few junkyards where people go to get parts, and there is not much of a used parts market. This car will probably be crushed into a metal, glass and rubber brick and stacked somewhere with a bunch of similar cars. The upside of this is that people like me who don't mind old cars can get them for free or for a pittance.] Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.htmlhttp://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/http://archive.nnytech.net/ P [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send quot;unsubscribequot; messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [biofuel] Help! Any parts worth scavenging?
Dear Christopher, You can get into contact with some of the many diesel engine adapters to SVO-use in Europe. I put some of the contact linkt into the Jatropha oil website http://jatropha.org/p-o-engines/conversion-cars.htm There is even a meeting of SVO-users in Germany, the beginning of July see: http://www.bv-pflanzenoele.de/body_index.html Best regards Reinhard Henning Christopher Witmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: I'm about to junk [* see note at bottom] a 1989 Nissan van (gasoline engine) with 43,000 miles on it, and in its place I'll be getting a 1989 Nissan van (DIESEL engine) with 27,000 miles on it. Both are automatic transmission vehicles; the former is 4WD and the latter 2WD. I would like to try running the diesel vehicle on carefully filtered waste vegetable oil and biodiesel, in a two-tank arrangement with either manual or temperature-controlled switching between the fuel systems. HERE IS MY QUESTION: Are there any parts worth scavenging from the outgoing gasoline vehicle, that will be useful in building the dual tank SVO system for the diesel vehicle? Thanks! Christopher Witmer Tokyo [* In Japan a car like this one -- more than ten years old -- has zero market value, despite its low mileage. I will have to pay money to junk it. Unlike the USA, there are few junkyards where people go to get parts, and there is not much of a used parts market. This car will probably be crushed into a metal, glass and rubber brick and stacked somewhere with a bunch of similar cars. The upside of this is that people like me who don't mind old cars can get them for free or for a pittance.] Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send quot;unsubscribequot; messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ -- bagani GbR, Reinhard Henning, Rothkreuz 11, D-88138 Weissensberg, Germany Tel: ++49 8389 984129, Fax: 984128, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] internet: www.bagani.de Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send quot;unsubscribequot; messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [biofuel] Help! Any parts worth scavenging?
Grahams wrote: From a consignment store perspective, this looks like a great new money making venture... importing Japan's used cars! I think a lot of used Japanese cars end up in Australia, where they drive on the same side of the road (left). And a lot of used Japanese cars end up in third world countries. Hmm how much to ship one or those things? Probably not worth it unless you have a person who can select really good vehicles and have them sent over by the (40 foot) container. (You can fit a lot of vehicles into such a container if you stand them at an angle.) Christopher Witmer Tokyo Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send quot;unsubscribequot; messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [biofuel] Help! Any parts worth scavenging?
There are companies now importing used Japanse forklift and small tractors[under 25 hp] to the US . They are cleaned up,repainted and sold. Larry Ruebush west central IL - Original Message - From: Christopher Witmer To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 9:08 AM Subject: Re: [biofuel] Help! Any parts worth scavenging? Grahams wrote: From a consignment store perspective, this looks like a great new money making venture... importing Japan's used cars! Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send quot;unsubscribequot; messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send quot;unsubscribequot; messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
