A while back I had to change out the flexplate on my son’s car after he had a mechanic replace the engine. An externally balanced 454 was put in to replace an internally balanced motor and the mechanic just used the orig. unbalanced flexplate. So I wanted new bolts. I went to 2 speed shops and 3 auto parts stores. All of them only had chinese bolts to sell me.
I ended up buying a box of 50 American made bolts from Mcmaster for cheaper than the blisterpack of chinese junk.
Wow.