Any recommendations on fuel and break hoses as an upgrade vs OE? My 89 still has all original and it appears one of the fuel hoses finally started leaking (sweating) through the cloth braid.
I installed Goodridge brake lines on my 308 when I redid the suspension and brakes a few years ago. I can't say they are better than OEM, but they aren't worse. I installed the Scuderia Ramparte fuel hose kit also. It is orange and it is expensive. No regrets. It might be overkill, but I think that's the direction to err. Probably both of these make your car more desirable to someone who wants to buy it and drive it. Probably both of these make your car less desirable to someone who wants to buy it and collect/show/judge/concors it.
“Probably both of these make your car less desirable to someone who wants to buy it and collect/show/judge/concors it.” I just had that same discussion with someone else. that aspect never made sense to me…in terms of why people want potentially inferior OE components just to claim originality. Manufactures often don’t use the best upfront, and it’s Like saying I want builders grade materials in my house. I didn’t recall judges crawling under my 512, it was more a cursory engine bay inspection, but fortunately I’m not worried about a few resale dollars. It’s an ultra low mileage (<7kmi) car that will easily sell for prime dollar if I ever wanted to sell.
I think the originality thing is a rabbit hole that once you go down it you end up doing some absurd things like refusing to retract the US spec 5 mph bumpers or looking for those cheap clamps that are a steel band wrapped around a cotter pin that made perfect sense for a production environment but not user friendly from an owner/maintainer standpoint. There's a reason they are hard to find - nobody in their right mind uses them. Anyway, it's an owners choice and we need to respect that.
