Heym I stopped by a junkyard today looking for parts for my 7 (mainly extra rims, an electric driver side mirror, an extra carb, front window, and electric window guides. Ended up finding 2 with motors in them, and thought it wouldn't be too bad to snag one, rip it apart and learn how too port on it.

I do however have a couple questions.
What would be a good price for a 12a from a junkyard (unsure as too how good they are, though the 79 still had the carb on it and the others hood was still covering it)?
How about 4 rims (saw 4 of the standard rims, and 4 of the limited edition ones)

I'm new too the whole junkyard thing, and have no idea what the prices would be, the one junkyard I went too had 4 RX7's between 79 and 85, no SE's though =[. Any help would be appreciated, even really rough estimates. I'm also hoping too find time too stop by a couple more, and look around, all of the ones by my house are the "you pull it" type.

Damn, posted on the wrong forum and can't delete the post...

 

back in the day core used to go for $150-200 less if you knew someone

mike

 

http://www.car-part.com/

 

Around here, you can get short blocks for 60-90 dollars. Some of the 12A's I have seen were in wrecked cars, or had certain vacuum hoses damaged that will prevent the car from running good (IE a fine motor that no one knew how to work with).

If you do get a junkyard motor, you had better pull ones from wrecked cars. Ones with perfect bodies might have some other unknown problem...


Joe