Another Mopar Off My Bucket List - Barracuda Fastback

famous bob said
I have willwoods on the front of my barracuda. When it was time for brake lines, I ran new everything, and had a hyd. hose place in Tulsa make up my braided lines w/ the right fittings on them. I even had braided flex lines made for the master cyl., in case I needed to loosen it to get the valve cover off. I ended up machining some of the fins off the cover to get it off tho. Am running an 87 dodge diplomat alum. master cyl. tho. A good commercial hyd. hose place can make about anything up u would want.
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Hi Bob. I'm not knocking the quality of the Wilwood parts. If we kept things fairly standard and went with everything from their catalog we probably wouldn't have any complaints.

The problems arose when we tried to stuff that Hemi into the engine bay. That's when we saw we were going to have to get creative to avoid clearance problems.

Their cylinder mounting plate was great but didn't provide us with sufficient clearance with our valve covers. We'd gladly use their fittings if they allowed us to mount the reservoirs where we want them. I understand that no company can offer a solution to every application but their use of odd sized fittings makes it really difficult to improvise.