copper brake lines ? seen some people before using them just wondered where they got them from, and what size of tube the normal ford stuff is so i know what size to get?

any help very thankfull!

 

come on people!!

 

I helped lee@fusionfit hes to his S2 Trackcar, just looked like plumbers pipe to me, cant remember the thickness though

 

anywhere!

 

Use braid instead!

Copper? whats the point of upgrading to that?

 

Sorry forgot to add a link

www.abbeyhose.co.uk

 

oooh now thats more like it, how much?

 

Thats why i added a link mate

 

www.automec.co.uk

About £35 for a kit.

 

Used Copper on My mates Pug 306, Just plumbers pipe which we then got bent to shape at a local garage

 

i got a 25m roll off ebay, cost like £8

and Jano, surly you dont want braided all the way through the car to the back?

 

why not maytee

 

Why not? Its just as strong surely. Cos its braided, i doubt it would expand and give a spongey feel.

I'm going to get some of that braid stuff just for the engine bay, link up the front calipers with it, then link up the rears from master cylinder where they meet the original lines at the bottom of the bulkhead

 

i just thought it would be more prone to flex...

lol ah well, im still gonna use the pipe i bought

 

I have two full rolls that i bought and i am not useing now pm me your address and i will send them to you......

 

Alot of my cars run braid all through the car.

The only down side i can see in running braided lines all round is that the cost of the lines will be high compared to the copper type.

IMO it is better than copper and will not cause any problems.

 

fair enough

im just a cheap bastard

 

Copper is just as good.

Its just ap ain in the arse

You got to bend it round the car the way you want it, then if you not got the flaring tool to butt the ends off it, you got to take hte pipe off again to get a garage to do it

Anyway, its a nightmare to bend straight

 

im gonna run mine inside the car

 

im gonna have braided lines ran from master cyl to caliper too

nice link Jano

 

cos it's heavier, more expensive and rattles unless you secure it every 4 inches or so. (and will do a lovely job of removing the paint from your freshly painted tunnel/floor whilst rattling) also apparenly hard to keep clean. granted, braided won't fracture like a hard line, but personally i reckon if you've hit something hard enough to fracture a hard line mounted on the tunnel then you've bigger problems than brake fluid!

 

copper is shite, you want the copper alloy called cunnifer if you're going to do rigid lines.

 

see nice lot of opinions!

 

Thats what PF is all about

 

Kunifer is a copper/nickel alloy. Its the stuff available from most motor factors for making up lines. The main reason not to use braided throughout is because of the "squirm". Unless its mounted solidly every few inches it will move slightly resulting in a softer pedal. Gonna be doing mine in kunifer run inside the car.

 

im still using my cheapo copper tubing

 

Ford sale steel brake pipe

5007396 £3.60+vat a metre