honestly.. i probably haven't been to a junk yard in ages.

we buy parts cars, and still have remnant shells kicking aorund....

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Chris

I use McMaster-'RaceCarr' for smaller quantities of common fasteners, but Metric & Multistandard Components totally rocks for oddball metric fasteners, or for volume pricing. Heck, I can even buy the proper 7mm x 1.00 pitch timing cover fasteners for Opel CIH engines from them.

http://www.metricmcc.com/catalog/catalog.aspx

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Opel is a 4-letter word...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/10498579@N07/sets/

I'm with JVL here. You can get much higher quality fasteners at the rusty old car farm than you can at the store.

I am not a fan of the bolt-bucket dig, though, so I have all my old fasteners sorted by diameter and thread pitch. If I need a 6mm bolt, I just go into the 6mm bolt bucket and dig for the length, color and washer style I'm looking for.

I've never actually farmed a junkyard for them, but I have stripped two complete cars to the bone and sorted every bolt. It's my only OCD thing...

-Dave

eyesoreracing Wrote:
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> I'm with JVL here. You can get much higher quality
> fasteners at the rusty old car farm than you can
> at the store.
>
> I am not a fan of the bolt-bucket dig, though, so
> I have all my old fasteners sorted by diameter and
> thread pitch. If I need a 6mm bolt, I just go into
> the 6mm bolt bucket and dig for the length, color
> and washer style I'm looking for.
>
> I've never actually farmed a junkyard for them,
> but I have stripped two complete cars to the bone
> and sorted every bolt. It's my only OCD thing...
>
> -Dave
Well being a narrow specialist means I have littleraly 400-+ lbs of Saab and Ford specific bolts in bin boxes, and 98% have been sent out and been re-zinc plated nice pretty gold.
Clean and sorted both mm and inch---old Saabs are inch except the V4

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John Vanlandingham
Sleezattle, WA, USA

Vive le Prole-le-ralliat

www.rallyrace.net/jvab
CALL +1 206 431-9696
Remember! Pacific Standard Time
is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time.

I only have about 5 gallons of volvo bolts. I have more of a hoarding problem than OCD, so they are all in one bucket...


Bring a little cordless drill with a socket addaptor to the junk yard and you can harvest fast...

alkun Wrote:
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> I only have about 5 gallons of volvo bolts. I
> have more of a hoarding problem than OCD, so they
> are all in one bucket...
>
>
> Bring a little cordless drill with a socket
> addaptor to the junk yard and you can harvest
> fast...

All, sort those bolts. When you need a nut/bolt or a warsh-er, every minute you spend pawing thru the 5 gallon bucket is a minute you're not fixing the car.

To barrow an analogy:
"
Saigon... ; I'm still only in Saigon... Every time I think I'm gonna wake up back in the jungle.

I'd wake up and there'd be nothing. I hardly said a word to my wife, until I said "yes" to a divorce. When I was here, I wanted to be there; when I was there, all I could think of was getting back into the jungle. I'm here a week now... waiting for a mission... getting softer. Every minute I stay in this room, I get weaker, and every minute Charlie squats in the bush, he gets stronger. Each time I looked around the walls moved in a little tighter. "

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John Vanlandingham
Sleezattle, WA, USA

Vive le Prole-le-ralliat

www.rallyrace.net/jvab
CALL +1 206 431-9696
Remember! Pacific Standard Time
is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time.

yeah, sorting it all out is on the list, and anyway


CHARLIE DON'T SURF!

All right, boys and girls, children of all ages...I have been lurking on this website for years now. I'm building a 2004 Ford Focus, which is on its way to be caged as we speak. I am also a manager at a FASTENAL store...and for my fellow rallyist brethren, FANTASTIC DEALS ONLY AVAILABLE TO US!!! simply PM me with your need and we will see what we can find. We have many vendors and manufacturing mills that we deal with...not to mention FASTENAL manufacturing. PM me and your problems are solved. -matt

matt15fan Wrote:
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> All right, boys and girls, children of all
> ages...I have been lurking on this website for
> years now. I'm building a 2004 Ford Focus, which
> is on its way to be caged as we speak. I am also a
> manager at a FASTENAL store...and for my fellow
> rallyist brethren, FANTASTIC DEALS ONLY AVAILABLE
> TO US!!! simply PM me with your need and we will
> see what we can find. We have many vendors and
> manufacturing mills that we deal with...not to
> mention FASTENAL manufacturing. PM me and your
> problems are solved. -matt

schwing! you'll hear from me soon gracias.

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Jon Burke - KI6LSW
Blog: http://psgrallywrx.blogspot.com/

matt15fan Wrote:
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> All right, boys and girls, children of all
> ages...I have been lurking on this website for
> years now. I'm building a 2004 Ford Focus, which
> is on its way to be caged as we speak. I am also a
> manager at a FASTENAL store...and for my fellow
> rallyist brethren, FANTASTIC DEALS ONLY AVAILABLE
> TO US!!! simply PM me with your need and we will
> see what we can find. We have many vendors and
> manufacturing mills that we deal with...not to
> mention FASTENAL manufacturing. PM me and your
> problems are solved. -matt


Hey! put some half towers in the rear where the shocks are so you have room for coilovers in the rear

Simple D with some simple 080 sheetmetal bent to match.
DOOOOO IT!

Having some room for the coils makes choosing rear springs simple and cheap!!!

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John Vanlandingham
Sleezattle, WA, USA

Vive le Prole-le-ralliat

www.rallyrace.net/jvab
CALL +1 206 431-9696
Remember! Pacific Standard Time
is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time.

I agree that the best source is to buy from junkyards or people engine/half-cut importers.

I try to buy from guys for the bucket, but they usually have one big huge bucket of bolts from all makes models, often with a lot of crap fasteners or low grade SAE stuff. Makes it really hard for me to get just the bolts and thread pitches and quality that I need.

We recently purchased a vibratory tumbler from Harbor Freight, and is pretty easy to toss a handful of bolts in there for a couple hours. With walnut shells or the green pyramid abrasives they come usually devoid of grease and dirt and look pretty good.

I would be interested to have large batches professionally cleaned up and re-plated if the price is right. John, where did you take yours?

I will say that one of the greatest moves we've made was to get more serious about how we save and store high quality OEM fasteners. Saves me a lot of time when putting together a car or replacing gravel-blasted bolts.

For JIC bolts with the 'proper' Japanese heads/threads, and nice plating, I've used www.tekbolt.com

Otherwise it's McMaster or Metric and Multistandard, but sometimes both of those guys don't have the reduced head, flanged, plated bolts I love so dearly. Tekbolt does!

Andris