So I had a close one the other day... My cruiser (built SINCE, as in continually ongoing, i was 15) has seen many close calls and its share of misc. problems but this one took it for me! I'm running a 350 with 4Di Pro-jection (f-ing hate it) and I had been running standard rubber lines from day 1 (replacing them here and there). The other day (game day I might add) I was cruisin around campus (cause I'm a bitch who can't find time to wheel anymore) and all of the sudden flames were coming up through the shifter boots!!! EJECT and snag my fire extinguiser (always within reach) and no harm was done, just some ugly carbon and an embarrassing moment in front of gorgeous Sooner fans! I crawl up under and theres a hairline crack in the rubber fuel line and its slowly dripping and had made its way to my muffler! Being the overly confident wrencher I am, I cut off about two inches of the cracked line, inspected the rest and figured, ah, fu@k it and drove it home :)

So now I buy a bunch of 3/8" and 5/16"(return) steel line and reallize that GM uses some craptastically weird fittings with maybe an O-ring rolled on the "nipple" of the flare? Whats my best bet here? I drove around looking for adapters and thought I was going to just use compression fittings (which I'm not too fond of on fuel injection, don't know what pressur they're rated at) and now I'm stumped. I'm also a cheap bastard (i.e. college student) and don't really wanna buy a bunch of $$ fittings if something else will work as well (but obviously better than the rubber, never trust a rubber :shaking: :flipoff2: )

Rubber fuel lines are fine as long as you use the fuel line rated for high pressure FI. Regular fuel line will rupture.
Also route them away from heat sources and keep them from chaffing.

S and an embarrassing moment in front of gorgeous Sooner fans

You mean your sister who is also your kissing cousin :flipoff2:
Fires suck. I went from one extinguisher to two after my distributor cap mysteriously caught on fire. I have one behind me and one beside me.

I'm running a 350 with 4Di Pro-jection (f-ing hate it)


Welcome to the Pro-JUNKtion hate club:flipoff2:


Thats sucks about your fire. You shouldn't need any fancy fittings for you fuel system, the presure is not that high.