81 280zx clutch hard line in 77 280z? Has it been done?

[sboy79]

Hey all! I'm slowly working through the auto to five speed swap right now and am ready to route the hard line. I have a hard line from the parts car (1981 ZX) that I was planning on using but seeing how complicated the routing is, I want to make sure before I start that this will work. I'm totally fine buying a prebent line for the 77 if it doesn't.  Has anyone done this successfully? Should I just bite the bullet and buy the line made for the car?

Thanks in advance!

[Yarb]

Trust me it won’t fit. Order one from Classic tube.

[sboy79]

8 minutes ago, Yarb said:

Trust me it won’t fit. Order one from Classic tube.

This is what I needed to hear. Thank you!

[Yarb]

ZCD has the slave line bracket that you can drill and rivet to the inner fender well. From experience, Ask me how I know! Run the line first. Tie every thing in then mark it.

[sboy79]

Just now, Yarb said:

ZCD has the slave line bracket that you can drill and rivet to the inner fender well. From experience, Ask me how I know! Run the line first. Tie every thing in then mark it.

I was actually able to harvest the bracket from the ZX so I'm hoping to reuse that-- was planning on riveting it in.

[sboy79]

28 minutes ago, Yarb said:

Trust me it won’t fit. Order one from Classic tube.

Any reason not to order the one from Z Car Depot?

[Yarb]

Packaging, Don’t know if ZCD will bend it in half. Classic tube didn’t on mine. Your call