Pictures of my LS1 brake upgrade

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10-07-2004, 11:02 AM

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Z95m6

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Re: Pictures of my LS1 brake upgrade

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Originally Posted by LT4ever

The brake lines that came with the set up had a hard metal line that came out of the banjo bolt where it meets the caliper and then turns into a rubber hose. It has about 2" of metal line from the caliper. I'm wondering if this is a brake line out of a car with traction control or are all the LS1 stock flex lines like that?

I reused the stock LS1 lines and i took out the banjo bolt and turned the brake hose to the position that worked best for me. I believe it was a 1/4 turn. So the hose faced out towards the body. This made the hose much longer then i have a tubing bender and bent the steel part of the line to clear everything when the wheels turned.

10-07-2004, 11:19 AM

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LT4ever

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Re: Pictures of my LS1 brake upgrade

Yeah... good idea. The passenger side brake line that comes from the banjo bolt and turns from metal to rubber is about a half inch or less from the tire rim. I bent the hard line to position the flex hose away from the tire. But the flex line makes a pretty tight curve radius to get it away from the rim.

I hadn't thought about moving the banjo fitting to postion it better. (Gawd... I hate bleeding the brakes!!)