I took my old blown VQ to the aluminum recycler yesterday. It weighed 246lbs. It was just the block, heads, and timing assembly, and of course everything contained within those items. Just another datapoint to add to the VQ weight discussions.

 

I've got a couple I need to get rid of. How much did they give you?

 

Yeah I still have my old VQ30 block. It's not very heavy, I can lift it myself. Sold my heads and everything above the block. Wonder how they gave you for it.

 

I got freaking $19 for my old engine...............

 

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I got like $9.54 which they rounded up to $10 lol.

The aluminum recycler pays rates that vary daily with the market price of aluminum, but dirty aluminum (i.e. engine block with steel studs, bolts, chains, crank, etc that have to be removed) they paid $.04/lb. For clean aluminum (like the 450lbs of pure aluminum transmission cases I took down there for work no steel pieces in it anywhere) they were paying $.42/lb that day. So if you have the time to tear them down you could make a little cash off them, say 200ish lbs of clean aluminum per engine x 4 engines at $.42/lb, that's $336 in your case. But being as it is about 15 degrees here and my garage is not heated I just wanted to get the thing out of there and had no desire to get frostbite tearing down a trashed engine.

 

Poor VQ's

 

I think a moment of silence is in order... they aren't making any more of these, ya know...

 

i have a fully dissasembled vq. $10 is crap, but $300 sounds like its time for me to get to work.

 

$336 was for the four of them that stephenmax said he has.

 

Damn, I need to recycle mine, I got two.

 

well $0.42 is much better than $0.04.
i have so much aluminum crap off of various stuff, maybe i could hit $300 (if i sold the good parts on the side lol).

 

I need to finish tearing down this DE-K I got and go on ahead and recycle the block myself.