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Old Oct 25, 2007 | 06:20 PM
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http://www.fastbird93.com/Installati...teLineLock.htm

Let me know what you think, I'm here to help and give assistance where possible. About 75-85% of this will transfer to any other C5 out there.
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Old Oct 25, 2007 | 06:38 PM
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Very cool!

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Why 2 brake lines??? Nice job there. I did the corvette tax way . I had enough going on at the time with the car...
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Old Oct 25, 2007 | 10:11 PM
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Great, thanks.
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Old Oct 25, 2007 | 11:07 PM
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Great stuff! I think this will be my next winter project!
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Old Oct 25, 2007 | 11:08 PM
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um what's a line lock for?
sorry for the noob question
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Old Oct 25, 2007 | 11:32 PM
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Why 2 brake lines??? Nice job there. I did the corvette tax way . I had enough going on at the time with the car...
Because the line lock solenoid gets put in the middle of the original line, thus two separate new lines.

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um what's a line lock for?
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Big, smokey burnouts. Basically, the line lock locks the brake line pressure to the front tires allowing you to NOT have to carefully balance braking with your left foot and gassing with your right foot to do a burnout. Lets you do a more consistent burnout and keeps the car stationary much better.
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Originally Posted by Fastbird93
Because the line lock solenoid gets put in the middle of the original line, thus two separate new lines.



Big, smokey burnouts. Basically, the line lock locks the brake line pressure to the front tires allowing you to NOT have to carefully balance braking with your left foot and gassing with your right foot to do a burnout. Lets you do a more consistent burnout and keeps the car stationary much better.
thanks i guess i dont need that, since i dont take it to the track
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This has to go into the DIY sticky. Great work!
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This has to go into the DIY sticky. Great work!
I didn't even think about submitting it for that. Who would I talk to for submission to the DIY section?
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I didn't even think about submitting it for that. Who would I talk to for submission to the DIY section?
I would think just pm pewter99. It's his thread. Again, thanks for this. I'm going to put this in in the spring.
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Very nice.
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Question for everyone who's read the write-up: Was enough technical information present?? I tried to include the sizes of all the fittings used and other things, but if I missed anything please let me know and I'll add to the write up.

The reason for this is that when I was doing my research, I found a lot of info, but it was scattered EVERYWHERE. I'm trying to do a consolidated grouping of that info.
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Originally Posted by Fastbird93
Question for everyone who's read the write-up: Was enough technical information present?? I tried to include the sizes of all the fittings used and other things, but if I missed anything please let me know and I'll add to the write up.

The reason for this is that when I was doing my research, I found a lot of info, but it was scattered EVERYWHERE. I'm trying to do a consolidated grouping of that info.
i will never do it, i just do road courses

but the write up seemed very complete -good work!
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Very nice write up Sean!
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