I love threads like these, they give me something to aspire to. Your work is excellent, very impressive. That reminds me I need to clean my bathtub. :D

My compliments on your fine work and attention to detail.

My project has just started.

http://anthonyrawson.com/Cars/930Eng...gine_small.jpg

"had a plater do Yellow (Zinc) Dye Chromate" the fasteners.

- That can change the torque relations, so be careful.

ah...marginal at best. Nothing that would affect safety. If you strip what was factory and replace back to same thickness, +.002 ...

I thought I was clean crazy!

Your motor, engine bay, and even the freakin' fasteners are outstanding! :eek:

Nicely done. SmileWavy

(words can't express what those pictures represent) :eek:

[b/"had a plater do Yellow (Zinc) Dye Chromate" the fasteners.

- That can change the torque relations, so be careful."[/b]

The zinc plating process creates hydrogen embrittlement. In critical parts (suspension, especially), the solution is to subject such parts to a stress relieving process; basically a long heat soak at elevated temperatures.

Sherwood Lee
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I'm not disagreeing per say. My point tho was that when you have an M12 10.9 bolt on a 19 year old car with crud all over the flimsy radius arms, and the last bonehead to do an alignment used an air ratchet to reef the pee out of the eccentric bolts...if they haven't snapped by now cleaning them up and tumble plating them in a drum prolly ain't gonna hurt it any... If people are that concerned, spend the $18 a bolt the factory wants and replace.

As for the rest of the fasteners, they're small for holding on fuel rails, hose clamps, etc...non stressed stuff.

I also snipped the brake rotor wear sensors off and chucked those too. Better off doing periodic inspections of all your stuff every so often and before DE's or spirited drives.

I guess in my book, its a moot point. I'm gonna take the $ I saved and buy your shift kit, which might save my tranny some day...;)

"I guess in my book, its a moot point. I'm gonna take the $ I saved and buy your shift kit, which might save my tranny some day...'

Well, in that case, sh$t-can what I said. You know best ;)

Sherwood

Sherwood- while we're on the subject, how long of an install can I expect on your kit? I have the center console already removed, and a factory short shift kit installed...

Thanks-
BG

BG,
I'll answer your question off-line so as not to hijack your thread.

Sherwood

BTW, I was thinking about the surface smoothness of the threads not the size increase. We had a very scary fastener expert give a talk at a PCA meeting a couple years ago....

I think we can all agree that "boneheads reefing the pee out of the eccentric bolts" (slight paraphrase of your great characterization) really uts all these concerns in perspective. I'd like to reef the pee out of the boneheads... but I digress.

You missed a spot.:D