dcarroll95

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I did a thorough auto-to-manual conversion last year and have another low mileage auto that I'll do someday so I'm pulling the parts kit together. One of the biggest issues has been sourcing all the stock clutch hydraulic parts. I put a Mazda order in last night to buy 5 sets of what you can still get and found out that yet another part went NLA. So now out of the 5 clutch hydraulic line components only 2 are available (2 hard lines, 2 brackets, one flex or stainless line). Lookin for a solution did a search and bumbled into "full length clutch lines" and found one from Clutch Bays with LHD or RHD option:

Chase Bays Clutch Line - Mazda RX-7 FD with 13B (they also offer FC)

So I went ahead and bought one to try out on a single turbo car I'm setting up and wanted to know if anyone has tried it and had anything positive or negative to say about it that they could share. If so, do you still need to route it through the firewall bracket and the clutch slave bracket on the transmission (both of which are hard to find / no longer available)? Also, once I try it out someday I'll update this post with how it went. Just guessing you don't need the brackets since they were specifically there to hold the flex hose connection points to the hardlines.

PM me if you want to upgrade your car to the full length hose and sell me your old stock 5 pieces. Won't cost you a cent for the upgrade

Here's a list of the factory part #'s listed in order of clutch master cylinder to clutch slave cylinder:
NLA: FD01-45-510D Hardline clutch master cylinder to firewall [I will someday get some of these made as I have two left]
NLA: F100-41-370 Bracket: Firewall Hydraulic Hose Bracket (No 2 in diagram) - This is one that I thought you could get that is until today when I tried to get one
Available: HE01-45-540 Flexible Hose Mazda OEM (or upgraded stainless steel if not doing a restoration) - endless options for this one
Available: FD01-41-360A: Hardline: Hydraulic Lines steel line, hose to slave cylinder- bought 5 today and the order cleared.
NLA: FD03-41-370 Bracket: Slave Hydraulic Hose Bracket (No 1 in diagram) {sometimes it's left on the used transmission]

Thanks,
Dan

cr-rex

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its chase bays... no reason to expect anything other than a fine product from them. i also agree, the bracket wont be needed at all with their line. you may or may not have to zip tie it to something though

Revive

I don't have this specific kit, but I do have a whole Chase Bays brake booster/ABS delete on my daily driver-

Like said above it's a decent company. No need for the NLA brackets- Just secure the line out of the way of anything it could snag on and you'll be good. I'd also highly recommend copper washers for the banjo fitting instead of the aluminum ones they provide. I couldn't get my kit to stop leaking until i scrapped the aluminum ones.

b3delta

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Ditto, love the booster delete kit. Quality stuff. Hose was a little short on the clutch feed from reservoir but I had spare -6 lying around to make a longer one.