Keeping car parts- Creative uses?

[SFIELDS]

I've decided that since I own it and since it's my first porsche, I'm going to ask for my fractured 968S cylinder head back when I collect the car from the specialists.

Beyond that I haven't got any solid plans but have been googling creative uses for used car parts and will probably end up turning it into a kind of garden planter or the stem of some strange coffee table.

Has anyone else done this or is keeping old parts not a normal thing to do

[BricktopST205]

I do keep old wheel bearing cases. They make excellent tools for the press in my garage. You never know when you need them.

[marksx]

I have lots of ideas for manifolds, turbos etc. Lamps usually come to mind until I realise I don't have the skills or motivation and now have a basement full of bits

[marksx]

Though I did successfully turn a dead block into a table/wine rack. Lost that through divorce though

[SFIELDS]

marksx said:

Though I did successfully turn a dead block into a table/wine rack. Lost that through divorce though

This is excellent, love it!!!!

[MikeM6]

That wine rack is marvelous!

I have kept the exhaust tips from my RS5 and the brake discs from my M6, not sure what I will do them save for trying to make something arty.

[SFIELDS]

A lamp would be very cool, but you're right about skills/motivation! Hopefully my car runs fine with the new cylinder head & head gasket but if not I may be stripping it for other bits (only kidding, I've spent way too much on it for it to become redundant!)

I made a wheel bearing and various components in tech college and they're currently being used as pen holders but I love seeing what other interesting things people do with old parts lying around

[edc]

Engine mount as a book end.

[SFIELDS]

SJR said:

How imaginative do you want to be ?


http://jamescorbettart.com/

Those are insane!!! The cylinder head might be a bit more of a challenge since its more cumbersome but the imagination's a wild tool so hopefully I can come up with something even if I dismantle it a bit. This car means a lot to me so it would be nice to have a piece of history to remember it's first hissy fit by

[Huzzah]

Im still looking for ideas re an i20 steering column..

[Nicks90]

Fabulous use of a crank and brake disks


One thing i have seen several times is cutting a brake disk in half and putting them on top of your stove/wood burner
Kinda has a stegosaurus vibe to it, but the added mass and surface area apparently makes it more efficient