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Old May 7, 2009 | 06:32 PM
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LS1 brake lines

I was searching on the use of ls1 brakes on my lt1 car. And i looks like you have to bend the bracket to make the lines fit, does any one have any pictures of this?
Old May 7, 2009 | 09:00 PM
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I used C5 brake hoses.
Old May 7, 2009 | 09:02 PM
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I used LS1 brackets and bent my brake lines to fit. That allowed me to use LS1 hoses

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Old May 7, 2009 | 09:34 PM
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Does anyone know if the rear brake lines/hoses will work if swapping rear LT1 -> LS1 brakes?
Old May 8, 2009 | 05:31 AM
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Please post on the correct forum.... LT1 Based Engine Tech isn't for questions about brake lines.

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Old May 8, 2009 | 09:39 AM
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Zachz28:
No pictures but I bent the brake line body bracket down ~50° and the L shaped hard line part of the LS1 front line gets twisted ~90° and bent down ~15° or just enough to point at the body bracket. I would have tried the Vette lines up front but I couldn't find anyone selling a separate 3 line LT1 rear set so I used the 5 line LS1 line set. The LS1 fronts are longer in total than the LT1 but the flex part is actually a little shorter and the extra length is from the L shaped hard line at the caliper end of the line that the LS1 lines have. It sounds difficult but actually was easy.

Rising Phoenix:
The LS1 rear lines seemed to be essentially identical to the LT1 rears in both ends and length.

Last edited by NJ-LE; May 8, 2009 at 09:43 AM. Reason: better wording (hopefully)
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