Bought a 481X block from a scrap yard today

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crawsfire

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Found this in the aluminum pile when I went to pick up my 67 cuda this morning. Unfortunately I could not find the rods or main caps. Paid $200 for it. I told them if they could come up with more of the engine to call me. They said it prob already was sent off to scrap.

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This is probably the cheapest purchase price on a pro line block in history. But wow, it would bu a monumental task bringing it back. I see a lot of potential and aggravation (and probable bankruptcy) all at once...
 
This is probably the cheapest purchase price on a pro line block in history. But wow, it would bu a monumental task bringing it back. I see a lot of potential and aggravation (and probable bankruptcy) all at once...
I just couldn't leave it there. It's a beautiful piece.
 
I couldn’t have left it there either. It wouldn’t do for me to have it around, though. I see an otherworldly V4 chopper project there.
 
High jacking here but one has to wonder what the full backstory is behind that being in the scrapyard. Anyone else wonder about how many things get hauled off for scrap that many of us would be horrified and appalled by? I knew a guy that hauled a Ford 427 side oiler off for scrap in the early seventies during the gas crisis because he couldn’t afford to rebuild it at the time and wasn’t able to sale it, either.
 
High jacking here but one has to wonder what the full backstory is behind that being in the scrapyard. Anyone else wonder about how many things get hauled off for scrap that many of us would be horrified and appalled by? I knew a guy that hauled a Ford 427 side oiler off for scrap in the early seventies during the gas crisis because he couldn’t afford to rebuild it at the time and wasn’t able to sale it, either.
I have been in the scrap business in one way or another for a long time now. The stuff that gets thrown away these days is unreal. Now that I think about it the stuff I have thrown away or crushed is just as bad. I didn't have a crystal ball.
 
You can all Alan Johnson and buy main caps pretty easy. As long as the block isn't fractured in the main webs.

And you'll need to measure the lifter bank angle because there were several used. The early blocks were available with a BBC LBA and the later blocks had their own LBA and I think there was one other.
 
You can all Alan Johnson and buy main caps pretty easy. As long as the block isn't fractured in the main webs.

And you'll need to measure the lifter bank angle because there were several used. The early blocks were available with a BBC LBA and the later blocks had their own LBA and I think there was one other.
Sounds expensive already. lol
 
I just realized I could lay down the back seat in my 66 barracuda and put this block there. Proline 572 c.i. under glass on a budget. lol
Who wants to see the pic?
 
How did you buy it? Just paid them scrap value plus a few bucks? Nothing is for sale where I go, maybe its a CA thing.....I saw a few Western 5 windows in the pile and asked what they got for them, guy told me straight up nothing is for sale here. My Father in law ran an industrial scrap yard, high end millings, Aerospace alloys and big roll offs full of aluminum alternator castings and the like. Showed me his wall of fame at work: a few revolver frames, 10's of bullets, a 'pineapple' grenade casting (no ignitor center, with a huge evacuation story on it) and even a few Starrett mics and Snap-on torque wrenches that were out of spec from the San Onofre Nuclear power plant. I grabbed those.....has a radiation monitor that went off about once a month.
 
The scrapyard I go to is a one-man owner that I know personally after going there for so many years and he would probably sell me anything I wanted.. never did..
I scrapped for at least five or six years.. I did extremely well at it and still get calls to this day six years later..
So many times I actually close my eyes as I would kick stuff off of my truck... When yellow rose talks about distributor machines and all manner of sun Scopes and big industrial shop machines.. I remember the sandblaster that took up my whole entire track it was industrial for sure.. telephone booth was kind of cool but it had to go... if you start keeping stuff you need room for it and you start getting carried away with it there's so many good Finds Its incredible.. three-quarters of my tools and tool boxes and all that stuff is scrap metal.. the name on the side of my car is
"The scrapper"... I would have glanced at that block and kept walking LOL.. I say that only because I've just seen too much stuff at the scrapyard to want it all... And at some point or any of it... Again I'm jaded...
 
I actually took a scrap load in last week for the first time in a year or more just for a friend to get rid of this metal that he was going to put in his dump load. I said instead of paying to dump it I'll take it and just try and get my gas... It was utterly ridiculous I brought almost a half a ton and cut $41 LOL.. that's why I don't do it no more.. the worst I ever would have done on that would have been a hundred and that would have been the worst...
 
The scrapyard I go to is a one-man owner that I know personally after going there for so many years and he would probably sell me anything I wanted.. never did..
I scrapped for at least five or six years.. I did extremely well at it and still get calls to this day six years later..
So many times I actually close my eyes as I would kick stuff off of my truck... When yellow rose talks about distributor machines and all manner of sun Scopes and big industrial shop machines.. I remember the sandblaster that took up my whole entire track it was industrial for sure.. telephone booth was kind of cool but it had to go... if you start keeping stuff you need room for it and you start getting carried away with it there's so many good Finds Its incredible.. three-quarters of my tools and tool boxes and all that stuff is scrap metal.. the name on the side of my car is
"The scrapper"... I would have glanced at that block and kept walking LOL.. I say that only because I've just seen too much stuff at the scrapyard to want it all... And at some point or any of it... Again I'm jaded...
I understand where you are coming from. I just don't walk past a billet aluminum cross bolt main block without looking at it. Never seen one before other than on the interwebs.
 
scrap yards were my second income and the stuff I got just amazes me aluminum intakes, complete motors, carbs some rare ones, gauges, rearends,and transmissions I could go on.
 
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