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Originally Posted by Ben_Copeland
I don't like rivnuts, they have a horrible tendency of spinning with the bolt still in them 
I ended up tacking the rivnuts to my chassis where they hold the nosecone on. The only other body part held on with them is the scuttle. |
I used aluminium rivnuts, about 20 in the whole car. The alu thread is pretty soft, it has a tendency to catch if you're not too careful when threading in the bolt. That said, only one seized and spun irrecoverably. Oh well, converted to a stud with nut on the outside.
Also, I installed all of them without the special tool. I used a long M6 bolt with a nut on it, some washers, and a steel strip with a hole in it. I would thread the nut, washers, plate and rivnut on the bolt, insert the rivnut into its hole, clamp the plate to the chassis, then tighten the nut holding the bolt steady. The thread of 8.8 bolts and nuts would hold for installing 3-4 rivnuts before stripping, but that's ok. A stronger bolt would probably help.