Stainless steel braided line daytwo?

[Bernhard]

Hi.
Does anyone know when stainless steel braided line was introduced to the performance aftermarket?
Thanks
Bernhard

[Bernhard]

Bernhard wrote:
I looked up Earl's and found this write-up.

EARLS HISTORY
Earl's Performance Products was founded by Earl Fouts in 1955 in Lawndale, California. The mission was to supply high-quality military aircraft surplus plumbing components directly to the racing industry from a small retail outlet. As the military surplus market dried up, Earl recognized the need for continuity of supply for the racing market and pioneered the Earl's range of hoses and fittings that are still used today. In doing so he created the racing aftermarket plumbing industry.

Earl's Performance invented the self indexing hose end in 1973, known as the "Swivel Seal®". It allows 360 degree adjustment after installation making plumbing a snap. Earl's invented most of the special purpose racing adapters, the full billet hose clamp housing, and introduced the flexible armored PTFE lined hose to the racing industry in the 1960s.

Earl's racing heritage is second to none and is quite possibly the winning-est plumbing in history. Top funny car teams, sprint car teams and Indy car teams rely on Earl's still today. Earl's plumbing has been on the vast majority of Indy 500 winners.

Earl's Performance Plumbing has distribution outlets across the globe. Earl's has the most complete line of performance plumbing on the market is and renowned as the world's No.1 motorsport hose and fittings source. Manufacturing is headquartered in Bowling Green, KY and has three distribution/assembly sub locations in Indianapolis on Gasoline Alley, Earl's UK at the track at Silverstone, and Earl's Australia located in Sydney.

[whitetop]

SS braided hose not really used until 1975-1977 on street machines. It was available before then. Seen a few cars run fuel line but that was about it.

If you run SS braided hose for a circa 1970-1975 build it is era correct but very few street cars ran it.

Late 70's is when SS braided hose took off in popularity. All the car mags circa 1977-1978 had articles on how to install it.

[NorCam]

Back in the mid 70's you would see Earls on some of the track cars but seldom did it ever appear on any street cars until Earl's and Aeroquip started battling for market share in the early 1980's. I would call it Day 3 if anything.

[Bernhard]

I was thinking about using it for a hood mounted fuel gauge for safety reasons.
I know in the 80's it was very popular and we used it on our hood mounted gauges.
We found it to be very expensive thus its limited use on our cars.
Thanks for the replies.

[GrumpyJeff]

I always associated it time wise, with the 1st Pro Street cars started to be built ?! But sprint Car and serious Drag cars were using as long as I can remember

[ban617]

I was thinking in the mid 80’s it started being more popular... If I was going to use it for fuel I would try to get the line with the Teflon liner & have it made with crimp on fittings rather than the rubber & reusable ones ....