Track Day Best Practices - MUST READ

Originally Posted by wstar

There are basically two "styles" of replacement SS brake line you can go with. The OEM-style ones retain all of the connections and mounting points of the originals (it's like, 2 little lines attached to connection blocks that screw down to the suspension). Then there's the straight kind that are just a single line of the correct length. In Z1's store, "premium" is OEM-style and the not-premium is the single-line kind. If you do the OEM ones you don't have to change anything but the lines. The straight ones have fewer connections and allow you to remove a few brackets and things to dump a little weight from the front suspension. That's what I'm running, but I had to put some plastic shields on my coilovers to make sure the threads on the coilover didn't try to rub the brake lines.

Originally Posted by synolimit

That's why I went premium. Rubs etc scare me on a brake line. But mine are rusted solid now so a blow out failure could happen anytime too.

Originally Posted by Sh0velMan

More joints to fail is not superior to a hypothetical possibility of rubbing, which would only happen if you didn't spend 5 minutes ensuring that everything was routed and secured properly.

Originally Posted by synolimit

Well nissan and millions went into multi joints so...

And you can't spot rubbing through metal collars. I think this is a terrible design!! I'll take OEM style thanks.

Originally Posted by Sh0velMan

So don't use those collars, you're a smart boy, you can figure out another solution. I believe in you!


You can take whatever you want, but adding more places for leaks or failures to occur over a simpler and lighter design is a step backwards. That's plain and simple fact.