Oil Cooler line connections: Use Teflon tape?

[patrickt]

Originally Posted by Jerry Clayton

red and blue fittings from disco era?????

How about red and blue fittings from the Cobra era?????

I like my silver ones better.

[dcdoug]

Originally Posted by patrickt

I like my silver ones better.

x2. I am have a few red and blue anodized connections in my engine bay and am working to replace all of them with silver fittings, or brass in a few cases where that was the original look.

[patrickt]

Originally Posted by dcdoug

x2. I am have a few red and blue anodized connections in my engine bay and am working to replace all of them with silver fittings, or brass in a few cases where that was the original look.

Brass? Hmmm. I'm at the point now where if I don't like the original look, I say "screw it" -- I think I hit that three seconds after the second roll bar holes got drilled. Got any shots of what the brass fittings look like?

[dcdoug]

Originally Posted by patrickt

Brass? Hmmm. I'm at the point now where if I don't like the original look, I say "screw it" -- I think I hit that three seconds after the second roll bar holes got drilled. Got any shots of what the brass fittings look like?

I believe the fittings that couple the hard fuel line to the log and also the hard fuel line to the mechanical fuel pump are brass. I don't have them yet though, they are in transit. But they are NOS, so they should be accurate. I will let you know when I get them.

[Gunner]

Originally Posted by Jerry Clayton

red and blue fittings from disco era?????
How about red and blue fittings from the Cobra era?????

As far as I've ever been able to determine, the red and blue anodized aircraft fittings didn't show up in cars until at least the mid-1970s and didn't become common until the early '80s.

Can you produce a era pic of these fittings on Cobras or equivalent cars?

[Excaliber]

As it concerns original look, the basics will ALWAYS apply. Get a reasonably accurated body shape, get reasonably accurate wheels, don't go wild on the interior with crushed velvet or some wierd application. Heck, your almost there if you just follow the "basics".

[Jerry Clayton]

The AN fittings were around race cars way going back after WW2 and Korea--By 1970 we were running hard lines with the 37* AN adapters--and any era pics would be black and white!!!!
You can look at the pics of my dragster in my gallery for evidence of 1970 leading edge plumbing using BLUE AN nuts, sleeves and adapter fittings.

[Gunner]

I'm not necessarily arguing, Jerry, but I've never seen anything but anecdotal evidence that the red and blue fittings were used before about 1975. A pic of any era car NOW is dependent on someone's statement that it was that way back when.

There ARE color photos of these cars in the 1950s and 60s. Those I've seen show silver fittings only, sometimes brass. In my experience, the colored AN fittings were new and kewl racer tech around the mid-1970s, not before. (My personal recollections don't go back to the Cobra era, but my dad was a racer in the 1950s and I grew up around various performance cars and engines, none of which had those fittings.)

I would genuinely appreciate a positive, non-anecdotal proof of red/blues in use in the original Cobra era. A dateable era photo would be sufficient. Even a good enough b/w photo would show something other than silver or black.

[computerworks]

Originally Posted by Gunner

I would genuinely appreciate a positive, non-anecdotal proof of red/blues in use in the original Cobra era. A dateable era photo would be sufficient. Even a good enough b/w photo would show something other than silver or black.

I have photos from the 60's showing blue fittings. I recall some Coupe pics I have from 1965 showing blue fittings.

...not the bright blue of today...more a turquoise blue, but nevertheless....blue.

No red, though.

Here is a 427 Comp car as delivered. Photo was taken in 1968

[patrickt]

Well, that answers that. Woof-woof....

[computerworks]

Originally Posted by patrickt

Woof-woof....

I ignored that. Don't poke the dog too often.

[Gunner]

Originally Posted by computerworks

Here is a 427 Comp car as delivered. Photo was taken in 1968

Accepted as People's Exhibit A. Thanks. Not being a PITA, but that car has some hard use on it and I could see it having had some maintenance and upgrades after delivery.

I'd love to see more photos from the 1964-66 era if anyone has them, especially if they more specifically show the AN fittings we saw (more of) later.

[computerworks]

Originally Posted by Gunner

I'd love to see more photos from the 1964-66 era

I did say that's how it was delivered, but it could have been reworked as well...but it was taken at the end of the '68 season.

I have more photos, but you'll have to take my word for it. Blue was used in the day.

[ERA Chas]

Originally Posted by computerworks

I did say that's how it was delivered, but it could have been reworked as well...but it was taken at the end of the '68 season.

I have more photos, but you'll have to take my word for it. Blue was used in the day.

Ron, you have a PM.

[Jerry Clayton]

The pics of my car were in Hot Rod Mag in fall of 1970---is that dated enough???

[patrickt]

Why don't we just ask Computerworks? Asking him a question like that is like asking a dog to bark.

[Gunner]

Originally Posted by Jerry Clayton

The pics of my car were in Hot Rod Mag in fall of 1970---is that dated enough???

Sure. But it's five-six years past the Cobra era and into the earliest era I'd take someone's word the fittings were in use on cars.

[Jerry Clayton]

But----we were leading the pack at getting rid of the heavier braided line in favor of lighter weight stainless and aluminum hard line---as used on jet aircraft then

[Jerry Clayton]

wow 4 posts in 2 minutes

that blue fitting is a 90* AN 37 degree to probably 3/4 npt--the hose is a 37* version of a cheap heavy double walled hydraulic hose that was commonly used on oil systems,
and most racers would have them replaced at the first oppurtunity.

[Excaliber]

CW,,,uh,,, it was funny though.


...woof.