Thanks for the compliments.
I thought I'd post up a few more details about the delete. The lines are 90/10 copper nickel alloy, not stainless steel. (Most of you can probably tell that from the color, but anyway....
) They were not pre-bent of course, nor were they pre-flared; the copper/nickel line comes in 30 foot rolls. The line is very soft and can be bent by hand. I figured I'd use a spring bender to prevent kinking, but in the end I didn't use any bending tools.The line is forgiving enough that it actually tolerated some straightening and re-bending, and it likes extreme bend angles just fine, as you can see.
To make the lines, I used thick solder to make a line "template" (so to speak), then took it off the car and straightened it to get a length measurement. Then, after flaring a copper/nickel line of the proper length, I simply shoved it into place. I was able to do all my bending with the line in the car, which would have been impossible with conventional line.
A normal flaring tool will not work. For one, they don't make double flares. And, for another, the tees I used require bubble flares, which you can't accurately make with a normal flaring tool even if you're inventive. I used a bench mounted tool that clamps the line between two blocks and then presses a flaring die against the line end. It worked exceptionally well; all of the flares on those lines were made on the first try and none of them leaks after over 2000 miles of driving.
Brake pedal feel has definitely improved, which confirms my long-standing suspicion that the shittiness of the stock ABS contributed heavily to the poor pedal feel of the 3/S.
Clint