See how it's on the little metal shank thingy?

Talk to me.

 

Hnng

 

Oh yeah, that too. It's cool to look at pictures of racecars like that and see that my meticulous attention to detail is on par with "real racecars".

 

like a solid feed line???

 

I have a bunch of fuel/brake hardlines left over from the partout shell, planning to use those as oil feed unless I find some really good reasons not to.

 

I used -4 alum and AN fittings for mine, terminates into a braided SS line behind the VC then down to the oil sender location. could not get a piece bent up AND fit with the motor in the car. too much in the way.

 

You mean like this?



Its brake line, with the correct adaptors.

This was a setup I built.

Dann

 

Wow, both of those look fantastic. Questions:
- how much did the 1st pic cost ?
- is that line going into the head on the 2nd? Never saw that before.

 

not a whole lot.

bender was like 35, tube is super cheap, fittings are a few bucks each. the expensive stuff was the normal: drain fitting, feed restricter and water feed banjos as the stupid turbo is so small the normal straight fitting wont fit... the stainless line was like 22 bucks from a local source.
I might have 100 in all of it. Edit had to buy a flare tool too so prob 150.
AN Fittings from Aircraft Spruce is a good resource for AN fittings at normal prices...

 

That's just a 37* flare with a tube-nut, right? I'm just trying to do about 3" on each feed to SS lines.

 

yes. 37* with a tube nut and ferrule, they don't make the all in ones anymore.

 

guess I should feel special. us FWD guys can walk into the mazda dealer and buy a B6T hardline fro $30. it does however need adapting to fit T- series turbos but that cost all of $12 on ebay

 

nah thats just you 1.sixxers....

 

My hardline is feeding from the head.

I walked into my brake suppliers shop, showed him the turbo and the grub screw thats in the head from factory, told him I wanted a stainless hard line 55cm long and he came out after 2 minutes with it made and asked for 12 australian dollars, so about a buck fiddy US.

Dann

 

fits the BP too, but you have to have one of the early blocks that has the oil port on the front.

 

Can we please discuss why this hasn't been done before? If this is an acceptable oil feed location it's a freaking awesome discovery nitro.

 

This is not a "hardline" thread.

 

So what is it then?

That photo looks like a hardline with a hose clamped to it.

Dann

 

Aluminum oil hardline is an engine fire waiting to happen. BTDT. Tried it on my coolant lines and it constantly leaked and cracked. Hard aluminum line has no place in a car.

SS hardline is an enormous bitch to work with. You need a $100 bender and a $250 flare tool to do anything with it, and they will still be more susceptible to vibration failure than a SS braided line wrapped in Thermosleeve.

I wouldn't cantilever a braided SS hose off of a -4AN tube nut and some 1/4" steel hose while expecting those same parts to contain ~60psi of oil pressure at all times, but that's just me.

 

Pretty sure that's 100% hard line with fire sleeve slipped over. But still apparently not the point of this thread.