davework

Looks like I found my answer: But if someone could definitively confirm that M8 = 12mm wrench and M10 = 14mm wrench, that would be great.

Great, thanks all for the replies, I've got some research to do to see if I can help out this community as well. Maybe I just need to find a good 240z to diversify my obsession! I'll post back up when I learn more. In the meantime, please keep the comments coming. If anyone can confirm whether Zs used small head JIS, I can cross that off my questions.

Great feedback, thanks. Although no one directly said this, I am assuming that the hardware on your Nissans is in fact small head JIS standard (10/12/14mm wrench sizes for 6/8/10mm bolts)? I looked through some of the current vendors offering kits and see some stainless offerings - are these small head JIS, or are they the more typical DIN standard metric heads? My guess is DIN standard, but not sure. To answer some of the other questions: True Gold CAD plating is still available - it is not easy to find and expensive, but it's been a big hit for the many years I've been offering. The phillips indented head SEMS hex bolts - good to know this is something you all would use. Metric Threaded is the best place I have found for these. I actually went out of my way to manufacturer without the phillips since they are seldom used on the Toyotas, but would be interested in ordering some bulk quantities if possible. Any suggestions as to how to know what the makeup of a good kit might be? I'd like to put together a good full vehicle kit and possibly some stainless offerings for any specific items. Any suggestions as to what those would be would be great. Thanks again,

Hi all, I am new here, but interested in the group's feedback on whether our new offerings may be valuable to the Z community. I've been offering bolt kits to the Toyota crowd for about 6 years. We recently expanded our manufacturing to include A4 (316) stainless JIS sized hardware, as well as customizing our carbon steel yellow zinc and gold cadmium plated hardware. We lab test everything here in Colorado to confirm everything is class 10.9 (carbon steel) and class 70 (stainless) strength. I've poked around a little on the Z forums and did locate references to JIS hardware kits, and I don't see any offerings in A4 (316) stainless. One of the main reasons we started this was to provide true JIS sized hardware, this means 10mm, 12mm, and 14mm wrench sizes on hex bolts and nuts. Do your Zs use these small JIS wrench sizes? If so, I am hoping there could be some nice crossover to what we've developed. Please take a look at the website for more details: https://www.overlandmetric.com/collections/bulk-nuts-bolts-screws Any feedback welcome! Thanks all.