adrial

As usual ... no offiliation..
Ordered some ($70 worth) hardware on saturday, it arrived today via 2nd day air.

Online ordering system is great, everything was packaged nicely and seem to be priced reasonably.

DerSchlechtSpecht

How's the rebuild comming?

-Christian

Ken

Nice site. Autozone never carries the big stuff. Thanks for the heads up!

slevy951

Yeah, I love them too. We buy 95% of our hardware from them. They're at least 50% cheaper than any one locally, usually more....

Wormhole

Do they have the same grade/finish as OE?

Randy_J

Those hardware assortment kits look good, but don't forget that Paragon has a great $45 Metric hardware assortment - an incredible deal at http://www.paragon-products.com/product_p/mhk.htm

adrial

Christian,

Finally coming together...hope to have crank/rods & pistons back in by end of this weekend. Then oilpump, waterpump, tensioner, rollers, headstuds & head...etc

John,
They are the same grade or stronger (factory for most places IIRC is 8.8 and I ordered 10.9 for a few places). As for finish...they are standard silver if 8.8 and a yellowish zinc coat if 10.9 (most of them, some are still standard silver). The standard silver are still zinc coated, though.

More info on strengths/grades here... http://www.boltdepot.com/fastener-in...Properties.htm

The paragon kit is nice, I wish I knew exactly what it included though. For my purposes I think I was better off ordering specific parts (like I did from boltdepot)...but before I decided on doing the rebuild I was going to pick up that hardware assortment.

Glad its not old news to most of you guys... I found it with the power of google.

Ken, How's the broken porsches coming along? I'm hoping to need that engine hoist within the next 3-4 weeks. (hoping).

Ken

Not great. The shortblock I picked up for the 83 won't work as the bores are too worn out. I've got to find another one that might work. The Turbo is awaiting the 3-pc crossmember(check the group buy thread for pricing, it's good). Once that's on, I'll tackle the low oil pressure problem. So pretty much, I'm nowhere. I've been waiting until I pay off the last round of repairs, which should be next week, before I start spending more money. It looks like this season is going to be a total loss.

Dave E

FWIW, Cadmiun plated bolts are what is needed when attaching to aluminum. Cad has a lower potential for galvanic corrosion. It is yellow as well as the zinc/yellow chromate finish on fasteners (likely what boltdepot is selling), so it is easy to confuse the two. I am always surprised at how easy I can remove nuts and bolts from my '89, and it is because Porsche does not compromise on fastener quality, in materials or plating.