[s-cars] Rear brake saga - The Questions have Ended!

[Theodore Chen]

--- Steve Powers <sbpowers at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> IMO, DIY hoses are fine for race cars and other liability limited
> applications. an insurance company might think differently should you
> ass-end or run over somebody because your homebrew brake lines failed.
> the solution I chose was DOT approved from a reputable vendor. my
> risk, my choice.

fair enough.  of course, the "home-brew" brake lines are assembled from
parts that are mil-spec and good enough for the space shuttle, and were
designed to work reliably even when field-assembled in battlefield conditions.
but of course, that doesn't mean the person who put them together (me) is 
at the same level of expertise as an army mechanic.

> understood. the compression fitting for the DIY hoses adds stack
> height and created an interference problem. the swaged fittings I have
> seen don't have that issue. you chose to solve the problem one way -
> another might have been to choose a banjo end with a 30/45/90 degree
> bend in it - I think my lines have a 30 degree kink in the banjo.
> 
> just sayin'...

yeah, that was a possibility i considered.  i actually solved that problem
(on the mustang) by using longneck banjos.

on the audi, i just used the NPT fittings when i installed the brake lines
with the 996 calipers.  i thought that's what porsche used.  do you know 
if porsche used banjos?

-teddy


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