Those intake tubes are hard to come by.

 

Yeah. $40 on eBay vs $10 at the Yard for the intake.






$289 on eBay for the plastic windshield cowl!

 

The one rover I was at last week had a good cowl. I didnt feel like pulling it.

There will be a time soon, that D2's wont be at our yards. The fact that they are showing up 1-2 a week means people are dumping them at a record number.

I imagine in 5-10 years we wont have them anymore.

 

Ouch and ouch. True.

 

I've been through the same with BMW E28s, as well as 2002s and Datsun 510s a generation before that. Not to many years ago there were always 5-10 E28s to choose from at any given yard. There were 87k E28s sent to our shores during the production run between 9/81 and 7/88. The chassis is at minimum 30 years old. Now you're lucky to find one E28 between 4-5 yards. How many D2's were sold in this country? Do the math. Shane is right, except I think it will be 3-5 years.

There are two Harry's U-Pull-It yards within striking distance to me. Each yard had two D2s today., 3 2ks and 1 '99. All four were pretty complete. I got an uncracked cowl for $7 from the first, complete with both upper and lower gaskets and both corner pieces. I also got an as-new Hi/Lo selector boot for $5, and a serpentine belt cover over the AC pulley for $1 from the second. All parts are already installed. Some people like fishing, this is what I do for relaxation.

 

Yeah, its always fun going to the yards and just.. look at stuff.

 

So you went to pennsburg and grabbed those parts lol?

The tan one is the one I grabbed the steel bumper off of which my wife doesnt like.

 

The tan one yielded the shift boot, and there was a new valve cover gasket in the passenger footwell that I passed on, figuring I'd be buying a set when the time came to replace mine. The cowl came from Allentown however. Turnover at Harry's is happening too quickly these days in my opinion.

 

Yep, I left that there for the same reason...but there were other new gaskets there that I took.

I think the heads were done. Someone painted the valve covers.