Project '64 Cheapskate

[chevyrestoguy]

Originally Posted by 66farmer

looks great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks!

Originally Posted by kustombrad

I'm grinning dude! That looks awesome!

I won't tell you how many hours I have in those lines. If I had a shop and quoted someone a fair price for the job, I would have taken it in the shorts. Once I got the lines bent at the master cylinder, I must have measured and remeasured for at least two hours before I made the first bend at the firewall. I should have taken a picture of the way I measured everything. I had straight edges clamped in every direction and a notepad full of scribbled measurements.

Originally Posted by 1963c-10

Nice job....and really loving the billet line separators. I need some of those myself!!!

Well, the separators weren't planned from the beginning. In my effort to be trick, I actually made the lines a little too close to each other, and nobody makes a separator with that spacing. So, I had some scrap billet pieces and had to make my own.

Originally Posted by Modges'66

Nice job on bending the brake lines!
I bent my lines similar to the way that you described, including marking them with a sharpie, and bending them with the fitting on the wrong side of the bend! LOL!
Where is your proportioning valve going to be?

It sucks when you're all proud of the bends on the line, only to find out that you left the fitting on the wrong side of the bends. Now, I always grab some masking tape and tape the fitting to the end of the line before I start bending to keep it from moving around. The proportioning valve that I'm using is from SSBC, and it's identical to the one that Wilwood makes. It's just for the rear brake line only, and has the adjustable knob to control pressure. It will be mounted inside the driver's framerail, about 12" behind the transmission crossmember. I have to account for the e-brake cable and any wire harness routed in the same area, so I tucked it up out of the way.