Oh I understand what your saying. Look at the 1st picture and compare the size of those hose barbs to the filter housing fitting, those fittings are 3/8 male pipe. 11 ft of hose, I think it will be fine. The truck was worm when I installed it, and when I started it up, the pressure side was worm for a while before the whole bypass filter was warm.
At 1st I thought of using a pipe plug, cutting it in half and drilling a small hole in it to restrick it. then screwing that into the filter housing before the st el's.