an6 fuel hardlines, copper, aluminium, softlines?

Flateric

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I'm having a hard time finding an6 aluminium hardlines for my fuel system upgrade in anything but 4 foot brake line lengths locally.

Can I use copper line, or is this a corrosion no-no? I imagine running softlines would definitely be a big no-no to replace the stock hardlines.

Or does anyone know of a place up north here to buy an6 hardlines and fittings that the general public can walk on into?

Thanks.
 

Enraged

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any hydraulics shop will sell it. it isn't specific "an6" hardline, it's just 3/8" tubing. an8 is 1/2", etc. You will need to buy an tube nuts and sleeves to connect the hard line to a regular an fitting.

many people run soft lines, but they will cost more than hardlines. soft lines are easier to route though. if you use hardlines, buy a proper tube bender, otherwise they are easy to kink.
 

arizzle

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y not use steel braided lines? i used a -6 steel braided line? i had that on my 86.5 and was great and looked great lol
 

tsuper92

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you can buy a 25' roll of 3/8" aluminum hardline for short money.i ended up using it to run two feed's and a return on my car.it ended up taking a little more time and effort for something nobody will see.i just wanted it tucked up in the stock location.most of the time people will zip-tie some braided an-8 line and call it a day.
 

Flateric

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Thanks for all the help and such guys, sorry bout the long reply, I got a bunch of help here this morning and pulled my motor, got it on the stand and got carried away with installing my Driftmotion stuff. (They really are great to deal with BTW! And my order was BIG, complicated and HEAVY).

I would have thought the softlines inplace of hardlines is simply a bad idea from a more easy to rupture angle of concern. My car doesn't ever see anykind of weather other than nice though so I doubt the danger would be much higher. I also worry about the track saftey guy turning down my car during saftey inspection perhaps.

I am running all steel braided lines under the hood, to and from all the various bits and such and ya it looks great. But where they tuck down under the transmission tunnel and head back from there all lines get attached to what I assume is aluminium tubing with threaded connectors. Whatever the stock sizes may be.

Dropped my fueltank yesterday and it looked fairly clean inside after 20+ some years, no nasty sand filled nightmare like someone was so unlucky to get here recently. Anyone here running a fuelcell at all? I never run with a spare tire in my car and the fuel tank seems to be really convoluted outa shape to form itself to the bump for the tire. I believe they are lighter, although granted it is backend weight. Seems to me you could likely put a tank right in that spare tire well easily, a good sized on too. Not sure what this would do to the airflow dynamic under the car though, if there are really any to speak of to attempt to preserve.