Spoke to the bloke a Tatton park car show that said he could do Goodridge Stainless Steel Braided Brake Hoses for £48 is this cheap and can make other pipes to order

 

http://www.stevsonmotors.co.uk/home.htm

that is fairly cheap, there is a problem with the fitting of the goodridge hoses at the moment though. The goodridge fitment on to the calipers is fine but not onto the zed itself. They are working the problem at the moment, but if you can wait then i would as ive had a set of these for bloody ages waiting to go on and its just pi$$ing me off looking at them

Try somewhere like Pirtek if you have one local, they might be able to make them cheaper and with the correct fittings too.

£48 is indeed extremely cheap and I would be sceptical about their authenticity as these hoses cost around £75/set from Goodridge themselves (and that's a trade price). You'll also find they wont have put line locators on which, if not on the lines, is an MOT failure.

 

I'm currently working with Goodridge (yet once again ...) to get the hoses made up with the correct ends and adaptors. I thought I had already sorted this out with them about 5 months ago but apparently the redesign wasn't taken up into production and I was only sent two sets with the new style ends :headvswal. I'm now having to go through the whole process again ... which is a major pain in the arse. I'm now at a stage where I've given them my last set of "old style" hoses and shown them exactly what needs to be done. I'm now awaiting confirmation that they are going to rectify the situation and start producing the lines with correct ends on them. This may of course still take some time but at least we're on the right track.

 

To all my customers who are currently waiting on information from me regarding new style lines - please take note of the above paragraph. I will be in touch with you individually when I have confirmation the new lines are ready to ship.

 

Many thanks for all your patience.

 

Regards,

 

Dan

thanks for pressing this for us danny, on a seperate note are you aware of any adapters i could use to hook up the old style hoses onto my zed, id be happy with this solution if you knwo of the adapters?

Mr Stevson is a top bloke . I have dealt with him on several occasions.

Goodrich Approved. Does all the main shows and is always cheaper than anyone else by a country mile. He has done me 240Z hoses and other stuff.

Mr Stevson is a top bloke . I have dealt with him on several occasions.

Goodrich Approved. Does all the main shows and is always cheaper than anyone else by a country mile. He has done me 240Z hoses and other stuff.

 

Hi Pete,

 

Thanks for reaffirming Mr Stevson's reputation - I too have dealt with him in the past (and present) and can confirm both he and his firm are top notch. I did not spot the website link to Stevson's site in the original post Wez put up :headvswal His firm is fairly local to me and I've bought a fair few items from them in the past (not all Nissan related).

 

That being the case I stand corrected on my initial evaluation of the "suspect" hoses. The hoses will most definitely be the correct Goodridge hoses for the 300 BUT as stated earlier Goodridge currently DO NOT fabricate hoses with the correct ends for our cars. I am working with them to rectify this. My suggestion is to refrain from buying and 300ZX specific braided hoses for the time being - I will be able to let everyone know when Goodridge are producing the correct type of hoses. They still won't do them with line locators so if you want to be legal come MOT time you'll still need to get in touch with me.

 

Geeky Hawkes - due to the ends currently on the "old style" hoses it is not possible to use adapters. Sorry about that but we are all at the mercy of Goodridge at the moment ...

thanks danny, i might go the route of swapping the connector on my zed just to get these damn hoses on. If you get a timescale from goodridge id be grateful if you could let me know (hoepfully before i go medieval on my zed!)