Ferrari 360 Engine bay panel screws

Do you mean pn 11 and 12 here? https://www.eurospares.com/Ferrari/360/360_Spider/PartDiagrams/141/Shields_-_Outside_Finishing

I’ve stripped so many of those stupid things.


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One word of advise, don't upgrade to titanium bolts as some have done here. While they don't strip as easily, if you drop one you can't use a magnet to retrieve it so you have to pull underpanels. Ask me how I know. I'm back to factory bolts and the moment they start stripping I replace the bolt before I have to Dremel a slot into them to remove.

 

The factory fastener is not Torx, its made for a 3mm allen. Belmetric has them.

https://belmetric.com/socket-products/flange-button/

 

The originals, I believe are hex head not torx. The are readily available from a variety of black stainless steel fastener suppliers in the UK (no Ferrari tax) as well as via Ferrari parts suppliers.

 

SS is the same issue as Titanium. Not magnetic... So if you drop one you can't use a tool like this to find it. You will need to pull underpanels. 6 out of 5 times I remove the engine panels on my 430, I drop a screw/bolt.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B075L2QT8Q

 

Keep it simple and buy from Amazon (no affiliation) where different sizes readily available
I bought this size for the frunk. Other sizes available for the engine end
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I think on my CS they were 5mm and I was not able to find them on Amazon. If they are now available, that would be great.

 

I replaced a few with stripped heads with exact matches at Home Depot. Fortunately there's nothing special about these bolt.

 

I did allmost everything in my entire bay titanium hardware from mettic performance. Not for everyone but yes you don't want to drop a $6 bolt

 

I bought 35 pieces for 1 dollar , you can also get the 4 longer ones too. They work well.

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256802812200438.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.order_list_main.43.488b1802DSsckR&gatewayAdapt=glo2usa

You need 30mm (x2) , 20mm ( forgot how many but you get 30 anyway) and 4 x 50mm

 

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Recommend Accu Fasteners in UK. I live in US and find their selection and shipping the best. I purchased black, marine quality stainless steel. A4


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Bel metric is an excellent company! I am so impressed with their customer service. I recently ordered these replacements from them. Excellent 5 star customer service even though I was only ordering literally $5 worth of hardware. How much profit could they actually be making to care about me but they did! The only bad news for everyone else is that when I received the matching black oxide washers they were just slightly too small in diameter. Patricia from Bel metric went the extra mile and did this for me. Read message below. I have to say about this company that there were several people I spoke to and each and every one of them was incredibly polite and helpful even though I was buying pennies worth of material. As an employer I am very jealous that they can find so many good people to work there!

“I pulled all of the plain stainless and black stainless off the shelf and the lot number causing the problem is measuring 18.5-ish outer diameter based on sample measurements. Definitely not within tolerance.

I did have one small box of 19.8 OD plain stainless parts that would be within manufacturing tolerance for thickness and outer diameter, so we'll send those to black stainless processing next week and mail you 25 replacement samples when they arrive back at the warehouse. Going forward we may have to remove this size from our website until we can import a lot with solid dimensions.

We'll reach out with a tracking number on the samples mid-April, thanks!

Patricia”

 

This is my standard suggestion to anyone who wants to bling up their engine with stainless steel and other materials that cannot be picked up with a magnet. Life is a ***** when you drop one of those into the never never land of the engine crevices.

 

Anyone sourced screws for this that are torx instead of Allen but otherwise the same as factory? I’d think torx are less likely to strip.

 

Just to add another option....I went with McMaster

McMaster-Carr

 

So people are saying don’t go stainless…and I’m guessing that zinc-plated steel would be too subject to corrosion so the other options are out?

Anything one could do w any of these options to make them workable as engine bay screws? https://www.mcmaster.com/products/screws/system-of-measurement~metric/thread-size~m5/length~20-mm/thread-pitch~0-8-mm/drive-style~torx/