Where's the cheapest place you guys have found to get braided fuel hose?

I'm wanting to tidy up and give my fuel lines a bit of abrasion resistance etc.

Looking around on the net, it's very expensive stuff, anyone found a good price for it on or off line?

Thanks

Local motorfactors off the roll. Unless you mean stainless braided?

That's the stuff.

I'm on standard black rubber at the moment, but i'd like to tidy it up a bit and get some stuff that's a bit more split / abrasion resistant.

How about split convolouted tubing like for wires (and mentioned in another post tonight).

My car had some stainless braided fuel hose on.. that i'm sure will have been the proper stuff bought by its previous owner.

I've replaced it all with rubber now.. it was constantly splitting and leaking on the ends like the rubber within was perishing (not always right at the end either was having to cut off inches at a time).
There is also no real proper way to terminate the ends (often just insulation tape) without expencive fittings, so there's often sharp as hell pieces of braid sticking up like razors!!

[Edited on 26/9/07 by MkIndy7]

For fuel injection use it is best to use the correct screwed unions to terminate this sort of hose. As you say if ordinary hose clips are used it tends to split and goes spikey.
Buy the fittings from Ebay, the ones from Hong Kong. About one third the price of something like Earls and the quality and delivery is first class.

Ok why not keep your existing hoses and buy or aquire a length of suitably sized SY electrical cable . Then bare off the metal sleeving slide it on your hoses pull it tight and Bobs your uncle.
this stuff

You can actually buy overbraid that slides on for rubber pipe, i've not looked that carefully, but I guess they do it in fuel line sizes.

I have seen anodised ends that seem to incorporate some sort of bastardised hose clip (and they're stupidly expensive) but not screw on couplings before.. I'll have a look on eBay ta..

I know the answer to this 'cause I looked into it

It is VWP; buy the rubber end caps - avoids getting bits of the braid stuck into your fingers - fits both 6 and 8 mm tube.

I had wire braided fuel hoses and have now replaced them with nylon braided ones as the rubber in the wire ones was cracking but didnt leak unless the sytem was under pressure just couldnt work out where all my fuel was going until i went to an RR session and they found a pool on the floor