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vette427sbc

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I'm trying to finish up my rack and I've been looking for my options on the pressure and return lines.
Stock grand am seems to use hard lines, and this obviously won't work.
So what are you guys using?
 
I'm in a similar situation. I need to plumb the rack here shortly. I just found out about a local hydraulic supply place here in town that I'm going to stop in and see what they can do. I picked up a used C5(?) cooler that I'm going to plumb in it too.

(ps: Is that a '55 Belair in the background? I had a black 2drHtp '55 for several years. Sold it recently when I got married. Loved the styling on that thing.)
 
I was hoping I wouldn't have to have custom ones made, as I hear that can get expensive. Although I guess its not that bad considering I saved about $1k compared to buying the steeroids rack :bounce:

69427- Thats my dads car- a 210 hardtop with some belair trim on it.
Sorry you had to sell it, heres some pics to bring back some memories :drink:
http://s176.photobucket.com/albums/w194/vette427sbc/Chevy pics/?start=all
 
vette427sbc said:
I'm trying to finish up my rack and I've been looking for my options on the pressure and return lines.
Stock grand am seems to use hard lines, and this obviously won't work.
So what are you guys using?
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Strange, because when pulling my rack at the junkyard I grabbed the in/out lines and used them to put it in the '72 with no real issue....having had the '72 pump valving on the '88 serp drive pump, (bolt in swap done years earlier), and not having the OEM '88 valving, I just said hell with it, cut the steel line about 4" from the flare, and used a brass 3/8 compression union from Loews Depot....plumbing dept....used some small amount of joint compound on it and it's been there leak free for some 15 years now, did the same thing to one of the HB lines when doing that conversion some years later.....used factory lines from the vehicle they came from......I had to rebend a couple, but not by much, I consider almost any of this minor plumbing to be unworthy of custom hoses....really....junkyard....

ONLY custom hoses I had to have made was the a/c hoses for the '88 compressor into the '72 a/c system....they work fine....

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Hmm... well I didnt get the stock hoses with the rack, so that may not be an option for me.
do you know what kind of flair/fitting the rack has? maybe I can just make my own hard lines
 
vette427sbc said:
Hmm... well I didnt get the stock hoses with the rack, so that may not be an option for me.
do you know what kind of flair/fitting the rack has? maybe I can just make my own hard lines
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Sorry I don't, they are AN fittings two diff sizes......6&8?? not sure....but they use the O ring and the bead in the steel line and a nut looking like a flare nut....

I would hit a parts house and grab lines from a '92 Grand AM, and I know they will work IF you don't mind maybe ONE of them with that brass compression union on it....

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vette427sbc said:
I was hoping I wouldn't have to have custom ones made, as I hear that can get expensive. Although I guess its not that bad considering I saved about $1k compared to buying the steeroids rack :bounce:
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Custom hose proably wouldn't cost more than 30.00. By the time you buy some, it will cost you 15.00 to ship.
 
Dirtbuster1 said:
vette427sbc said:
I was hoping I wouldn't have to have custom ones made, as I hear that can get expensive. Although I guess its not that bad considering I saved about $1k compared to buying the steeroids rack :bounce:
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Custom hose proably wouldn't cost more than 30.00. By the time you buy some, it will cost you 15.00 to ship.
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Like my a/c hoses, I suspect the shop is going to need the exact project right there in order to see what's what, and so to fab almost on the spot....
I can't for the life of me understand how someone could to that without hands/eyes on contact....fairly easy for my a/c hoses, once they got the proper compressor fittings...then the rest was stock shit....

but with that rack positioned in YOUR install, methinks my approach needs looked at as a first attempt anyway....

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