braided stainless steel brake lines, On a street car??? Options

[Cap'n Krusty]

Bragging you have chosen stuff that is provably inferior just points out your slavery to the babble eminating from Madison Avenue, NOT that you're smarter than we are, nor that you're a rebel ................. Might as well throw a Fram oil filter on there as well, a set of Splitfires, and one of those fuel line magnets. Oh, and don't forget to add a can of Slick 50 while you're at it. The Cap'n

[TravisNeff]

Hey now, I put magents on the chicken coupe. double duty, one to help hold the double hinged door shut, the other THE MONSTER EGGS, FOOOM FOOM

[jwalters]

QUOTE (Travis Neff @ Mar 2 2005, 04:22 PM)

Hey now, I put magents on the chicken coupe. double duty, one to help hold the double hinged door shut, the other THE MONSTER EGGS, FOOOM FOOM

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[jwalters]

(IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif) On my two 67 ford fairlanes everything under the hood was braided--does that make me what you said there krusty also???

J/K

I got DOT braided lines, run a fram oil filter, bosche +4's, and no less than 9 inline fuel filters to help keep my idle jets from clogging- (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/cool.gif) --

If they say DOT approved then they will burst just as brutally fast as the rubber ones---you people just do not have a clue as to the testing these things go thru with big brother--as long as it says DOT--AND has the official DOT stamp approval numbers attached---they will explode every bit as fast as the last TWO brand fucking new rubber lines I put on my car last year- (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/headbang.gif) --thank god that 33 year old shuttle valve still worked... (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/wink.gif)

Oh and by the way--my 3 other 33 year old rubber lines still held--go figure on that one huh???

[TravisNeff]

The DOT seal of approval comes from their "whip" test. bending and kinking up the hoses. And to pass that, there must be a plastic (or teflon or whatever) sleeve on either end of the lines where the fittings are. So, DOT basically means they are approved in kink type scenarios. Still can deteriorate like the other (but you just can't see what is going on inside the lines. Easy thing with the rubber ones is to have someone pump the brakes and watch the lines. If it turns into a ballon animal, your due.

[Cap'n Krusty]

The catastrophis failure mode reflects things the DOT doesn't test for and can't control .....................Installation being the prime cause. Unnatural bends, length, rubbing on places where they shouldn't, etc. The Cap'n

[TravisNeff]

You are starting to describe that silly bunny rabbit..

[jwalters]

All true--all true--

When I was 17 and had my 67 ford I had to bow up on the four non-power drum brakes pretty hard one day when I heard what was like an M80 going off and my pedal go to the floor rather quickly--Talk about losing ones cherry real quick that afternoon-----bad memories---but me and the ford survived--that hunk of steel took out a three foot mississippi red dirt berm the road grader left by the wayside--also the first time I ever got air in a car----hmmm (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/idea.gif)

[iamchappy]

I had one fail on me before.

[jwalters]

Got a real pucker factor to it doesn't it???

[xsboost90]

i blew a brake line out on my mustang and bumped a suburban barely! after downshifting hard to first and pulling the ebrake...whew! Ive run braided lines on my 944 street and strip, hard braking and all, and never had a problem. No k$n on the teener, but i got one in the truck!