Any one got any pic's of how they have laid out the non-flexi brake pipes in the front of their car? Specifically on the drivers side.

Reason I ask is that when fitting the pre-made set I got from Stuart Taylor in my book chassis the only way I can get the line from the T piece to the front driverside is to loop over the steering column. And to me this just doesn't look right.

I should add that the column is quite tight to the side of chassis in this area.

[Edited on 31/5/07 by kendo]

I have a few photos in my gallery if you want to take a look...

Steve
http://www.p4nts.co.uk/gallery/slides/sh%20(63).html

Mine has the T-piece on the chassis rail that runs across the car just in front of the engine crank pulley.

The drivers side front wheel was a real bugger to get the pipe to fit. In the end I ran it across the same rail (as above) until it met the near vertical tube on the drivers side. Then up this, between the steering column and chassis tube, then bent back towards the centre of the car and looped back out to the flexi' connection.

It does look tight but the steering column has never touched it. PM me if you want a picture etc...

On my Stuart Taylor (locost IRS with vauxhall XE 16v, but not a full kit so brake lines are my own etc ) I have routed the solid line up the chassis diagonal on the drivers side that runs from the bottom of the o/s footwell bulkhead up to the upper wishbone rear bracket "node", then across the little diagonal there, fitted the t piece to a rivnut on that, then from there down an "s" loop to the o/s flexi/solid junction, and across the other side mini diagonal, then an "s" bend to the n/s flexi-solid junction........

if that makes sense!!

Its certainly neat.

Thanks chaps

I've been thinking about this and I think the issue lies in the pipe from the T to the flexi being a bit short.

So I think I'll make up a longer one to give me a bit more to play with.