Originally Posted by
Jnovak
Greg, when you run a race shop a huge part of your cost is labor. The cost of a long braided line with swaged fittings is less than $35 my cost. Now buy all the tubing, fittings, etc required to do a solid steel brake line + about 2 hours of labor to bend, fit, flare etc all the seperate tubes and you will see that the $35 7 ft long line with swaged fittings is a great deal. Now if you are doing all the labor yourself for your own car I can understand that the cost savings might be worth the extra work.
Just my opinion ... Jay Novak