OK, for those of you who had to bend your brake lines:

What kind of clearance issues did you have? Are we talking about just barely touching the headers, or are we talking completely in the way. I'm hoping to do my test fit of my SLP 1.75's soon, and I was looking over the engine bay today. I know of the steering column "issues" and noticed that the 2 brake lines run right by the column between it and the manifold. Theres no way they'll fit in there.

Second: How do you bend the brake lines? Seems like they'll barely budge. Is there a tool, or did you guys just do it by hand?

Again, thanks for the help!

 

I moved mine by hand about 1". But my car veers to one side when I hit the brakes sometimes, but I'm 95% sure it's because I need an alignment. If you push them hard enough they'll bend.

 

That's how I did mine. All by hand. If you push hard enough, they will bend.

 

I'm looking into the LS1 brake swap in the not too distant future, and was gonna go with Earl's steel braided lines. Maybe I'll do it a little early.

 

I pushed one a bit and the other I pushed so its on the other side of the intermediate shaft. All by hand. Work slowly, you dont want to kink them.