Anyone have the various hose sizes/lengths for coolant, oil, etc in the engine bay? I'm looking at upgrading to braided and or silicon and short of taking off every line and measuring I was hoping someone may have already done this. Where are the best places to get new hose and fittings from, thinking of using Earls ect..


Cheers


Brett

Ive done this a few times. My first attempt was using EARL's. Its all pretty much straight forward, measure, cut and fit. The only real tricky hose is if you want to braid the top radiator hose. Here you need a braided sleeve to fit over the original hose and then have to cut a small section of the fitting to allow the other smaller fitting that feeds the header tank to shampher in. Otherwise you can use tape, but looks just wrong. Fuel and coolant/heater you can do yourself without any real dramas. With EARL's, any ENZED should have them in stock, dash 6 and 8 mainly, 10-12 for turbo and heater hoses. Make sure the anodize on the fittings appears like new, because they fade very quickly once you fit them.

For my second attempt, it was done right using Speedflow. Go-Gear can help you out here. If using speedflow, I would ask for the teflon braid for at least the three fuel/filter/rail lines to stop any vapour smells that usually occur while using normal braided hose.

Hope it helps.

Thanks Ramon, I'll look into Speedflow products as well...

cheers

Brett

be warned tho, speed flow gear costs a bomb

around $30 a fitting EACH

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http://www.pbase.com/dangqld/motorvation04&page=1

pic of my old engine bay from a few years back with the earls gear.

edit: adding to what i said prior, a nice touch is using the earls billet seperators, especially for the header tank and any other location where two hoses meet.

Braided lines throughout the engine bay makes the engine bay look a lot better. Is costy tho and there are probably better things to do for the money.

In that same photo folder you might notice [EXPLICIT]'s old engine bay aswell. That was all done using EARLS products, with pressurized fittings for coolant and fuel. All done over the course of a few weekends by a couple of dodgy hacks!

As hein and denver pointed out, its far from cheap, well....unless you get a plastic sleeve kit from supercheap. Budget around 1k for a simple dress up of all the lines. Double this if your going with pressure connectors and teflon braid.

Richmond, I think, is another big player in the hose game, might pay to see what prices differences between all the big players are.

Must admit, got a soft spot for a detailed engine bay with a lot of braid.

Good luck!

Dash screw on fittings make life so nice when it comes to working on stuff and removing it..

none of this hose clamp and prying the hose off with a screwie or pliers, just undo the fitting and off it comes

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Dragging up an old thread..

Anyone know of braided lines and fittings to clean up the engine bay. Is it still the current places??

Do u get the braided line by the metre?? how much are they roughly and how much are the fittings??

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i forgot where that link to motorvation 04 had got too!

thanks for bringing up the old thread, this time ill make sure to save the photos!