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Old 06-02-2006, 10:18 AM
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How is the valvoline dot 4 brake fluid for track duty?
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elaborate on that please...
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Default the synthetic? meh for aggressive street/mountain driving
I'm looking for something else.
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do they reach the boiling point too quickly? is that why a "meh"?
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Default Fine. What you really need are race compoind pads. I have Valvoline DOT 4 in (more)
my Brembos and I wasn't having boiling issues at the trck on Monday but I was really cooking my Porterfield aggressive street compound pads. I strongly recommend picking up a race compound set of pads. If any DOT 4 fluid is used and well bled to get rid of old fluid (which has absorbed water) and air, you'll be fine.
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Default after a couple hard mountain drives it lost all feeling, had to bleed it again.
and it's due for it again. I didn't touch the stock fluid for 45k miles.
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Default a friend of mine destroyed that stuff at streets of willow in a brembo equipt Z
which weighs about 800 lbs less than our cars. the motul rbf 600 is a better choice.
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