Another Mopar Off My Bucket List - Barracuda Fastback

The fittings are what kill me. For those pipes or hoses that go from your reservoirs to the cylinders, what is the purpose of the huge 9/16 o-ring fittings? First, why make them so big? Second, unless I'm wrong, there is no pressure in those lines. Could have easily gotten away with standard NPT fittings and/or adapters to standard inverted flare hard lines or hoses. But they like to make it hard! And they almost force you to use AN s/s braided brake hoses, which are fine, but what if you want to use hard lines? Like you said adapters are not easily found. I have a Wilwood master cylinder that leaks at their fittings, which are large fine threaded adapters with aluminum washers torqued to their exact specification. And they drip fluid all the time. The other end of the adapter takes regular inverted flare hard line fittings, which don't leak. All the leaking occurs at the stupid washer between their master cylinder and their fittings. All they had to do is machine the m/c with inverted flares, and therefore not need to deal with the adapters! But again, they like to make things difficult. I also hate their use of metric banjo fittings on their calipers. They too almost always seep fluid around the washers. Again, what's wrong with the old inverted flare fittings which almost never leak?