As long as it is threaded all the way down it is pretty easy to make bolts shorter.

 

Yes. I have cut down lots of bolts on my pile of hunk.

I have no real good reason for buying the ferrari bolts, but i just personally didn't want to cut them down for inside my engine.

 

https://www.belmetric.com/10mm-metri...s-c-11_90_869/

 

DerpDerpDerp!

 

Except the thread on the squirter bolts are M10-1.25...

https://www.miataturbo.net/engine-pe...2/#post1203481

 

Ahh booo. I guess I got excited fucked that up.

 

can you bottom a set screw in the hole?
https://www.fastenal.com/products/details/11506506

 

Wouldn't that partially block the oil galley? I wouldn't do that.

 

All this talk vs just cutting a bolt shorter.

 

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^ This. All except @aidandj, he got the fine imported stuff.

 

 

That's what i'm curious to know.

 

The oil galley is around 1 1/2" down in the hole, the threads are only about 1/2" deep, so the bolt has to be cut off around that length. You can go to any parts house and get a pack of brake hose copper washers. I got some at our local auto zone. They are on a turn stile by the brake odds and ends in a bubble pack, if they can seal brake hose pressure it can handle this. Remember it doesn't have to be ABSOLUTELY leak proof as the oil well just be dripping back in the oil pan as the squiters do.

You can run a nut on the bolt before you cut it and run it off after the cut and it well clean the threads. Then just grind, disc sand or file a taper on the cut end and if you have a bench grinder with a wire wheel use it to really clean it up.

 

If thats the case, why have wen been talking about this? Red Loctite a set screw and bottom it out in the stupid things and stop thinking about it.

 

That's kind of what I just said above...

 

Blokt gg ez

 

https://youtu.be/vMO4ZIiQxoM