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Curious if you have any tips on how to track all of the nuts and bolts when you got them Zinc'd to make sure they find the proper home.

I'm OCD. Every specific nut and bolt has to go back where it came from.

I'm planning to take pics, measurements, and notes. As of right now, I've been cleaning them up and putting them right back where they came from. The ones that can't go back where they came from, I put them in Ziplock bags with notes on a sticky note.

AndyD wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 10:54 am Curious if you have any tips on how to track all of the nuts and bolts when you got them Zinc'd to make sure they find the proper home.

I'm OCD. Every specific nut and bolt has to go back where it came from.

I'm planning to take pics, measurements, and notes. As of right now, I've been cleaning them up and putting them right back where they came from. The ones that can't go back where they came from, I put them in Ziplock bags with notes on a sticky note.

Odds of the zinc coating place keeping all your stuff in order is slim to none. They are going to dump them in a chemical bath, then drain, then put into coating bath. The baskets they use to put in bath, Just an FYI also, I brought my bolts there the first time and he said they werent clean enough to hold the plating. I literally had to wire wheel every single nut and bolt. It's in this thread a bunch of pages back. The more clean they are, the better it will stick.

I laid every single one out on a table and sorted them by size and head type. Then put them in sorting bins and as we were building if we didnt know by memory what it was, we would look it up and measure each bolt.

https://www.amazon.com/Boltsize-It-BOLT ... 87228&th=1

Use one of these guys, helps a lot.

AndyD wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 10:54 am Curious if you have any tips on how to track all of the nuts and bolts when you got them Zinc'd to make sure they find the proper home.

I'm OCD. Every specific nut and bolt has to go back where it came from.

I'm planning to take pics, measurements, and notes. As of right now, I've been cleaning them up and putting them right back where they came from. The ones that can't go back where they came from, I put them in Ziplock bags with notes on a sticky note.

You can use the honda/acura parts diagram websites to determine which bolts go where..

ex: shock fork pinch bolt (https://www.acuraoemparts.com/oem-parts ... NC1nYXM%3D)

Bolt, Shock Absorber Lock (10X42)- M10 thread pitch, 42mm length. There's some other ways to decode the part #'s but I'm drawing a blank at the moment.

Sort your hardware by thread pitch and have a ruler out

Dc2-ProductionS wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 7:09 am

Outrun wrote: ↑Wed Jan 12, 2022 4:39 pm So it'll be done in time for Expo, right? =)

Absolutely!

AndyD wrote: ↑Wed Jan 12, 2022 9:40 pmBeautiful!

Which Windshield are you going with?

Any under-hood pics?

I've been stripping pretty much all of my nuts and bolts to get Zinc-coated.

Found an OEM one, should have it in the car in the next week or two. Ill snap some under hoods tonight or tomorrow, the engine bay and radio/climate control section of dash are really the only areas left with an amount of work.

Stay tuned!
Dc2

Did you find a Oem windshield new ?

Stin1 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 8:32 pmDid you find a Oem windshield new ?

No, got a very clean used one, and going to polish the f out of it

Curious how many parts you already had that you used to rebuild the car. Seems like you already had a ton of parts that you accumulated prior. Overall, it didn't seem like you needed to buy too many new parts that you didn't already have.

Did you procure those parts in anticipation of rebuilding a project car or just to have spares?

I hope I can see this car one day.

Keep up posted on the polishing, please. I, for one, would love to how it turns out.

OEM windshield has landed. Will be going in this week! Found my box with all the OEM trims and covers in it from 2017.

More pictures to come...





Stay tuned...

So exciting!

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What’s the ol next to the ap stamp? My 98 didn’t have that. Some of the earlier years have a green tint vs. what Acura and Honda calls a blue tint on the windows. Either way in for the windshield polish and install.