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I found black bolts + black fibre washers at Menards. Fit perfectly. They’re Socket caps not torx.
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I just gave up on looking for black replacement bolts, pulled my bolts and painted them. I did a primer and then a couple of coats of spray acrylic. I then waited 48 hours for them to dry. Next I wrapped the top of the bolts with painter's tape before installing them. When I removed the tape it was obvious that the tape didn't do its job very well and some of the paint was missing. I ended up using a black permanent magic marker to fill in the small shiny spots. No idea how long the magic marker will hold up, but, for now the bolts look great. In hindsight, using painter's tape was a mistake and another type of tape, something, a bit tougher, like electrical tape, may have worked better.
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Not sure what you are asking, here. There are no nuts on the braces, just bolts.
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07-27-2023, 08:30 AM | #72 |
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OK! thanks for your response….the reason I ask. Since the Supra has a lot in common with the Z4 G29 I posed this question. The Supra has a nut on the uppermost long bolt. You have to go through the wheel well to gain access to the nut.
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07-27-2023, 08:54 AM | #73 |
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Every time I wash my Z I pop the hood and wipe down everything to remove the dust and I see these lame metal bars, but I'm not motivated to buy new ones unless they are CFRP at a reasonable price. The F80 carbon fiber brace was really unique. Even the G8x is ordinary looking.
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07-27-2023, 09:03 AM | #74 | |
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They are pretty ugly.
I happened to see that they make an appearance in the new i5 M60 as well, though in that car they're at least hidden under the plastic 'engine' cover. Link to vid posted on Bimmerpost home page - view under the hood starts at 0:13 seconds in: https://g60.bimmerpost.com/forums/sh....php?t=2036016 Quote:
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From my younger days of racing dirt tracks, hollow tubing told you a lot about stress loads, because it was easy to see deformation at stress points. Solid material doesn't show you much. The braces on the Z4 are ugly, but I wonder if they don't serve the same purpose?
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Heh. I imagine if your tubular strut braces show any sort of deformation, there's a good chance your Z4 is totaled.
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These aftermarket braces look very nice, but for nearly $300 it’s a hard pass for me. If they offered structural improvements then great but the ugly factory braces do the job. This is rainy weekend winter project, remove stock ones and paint black.
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I got the red ones from bergher tuning (I think?) and black powdercoated the heads on some hex bolts.
While I don't think it adds anything, I know its there and the red makes me happy knowing that the EMT tube is gone.
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BTW they are for sale.
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