View Poll Results: ..what do you use.. values designates dry wet
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Brake Fluid
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ATE super blue... when it was a street car. ATE resists water absorbtion better than the others from what i've been able to find.
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I've been using the ford stuff... but I haven't run a long track day on it. I kidna watch to switch to te ATE super blue because i would have to bleed the brakes less often... bleeding brakes suck even if you hae speed bleeders. Blue is good because Then i would know when I have everything out of the system.
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also, i forgot to mention , ATE makes an amber fluid that is identical to the super blue. Swapping between the blue and that each time makes it easy to know when you have completely flushed the system. I think i'm gonna give the SRF stuff a try this next time.
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well just came back from a two day race school with the rx7.Brakes are done now.
Got progessively worse. At first I blieve the pads became glazed, because the pedal was still stiff, then later in other sesions (45 min each) the pedal starting travelling longer and longer...
Let me tell you, **** brakes makes for a very very interesting drive through rush hour traffic.
oh... and I was running Hawk HPS and Ford brake fluid (fresh)
Got progessively worse. At first I blieve the pads became glazed, because the pedal was still stiff, then later in other sesions (45 min each) the pedal starting travelling longer and longer...
Let me tell you, **** brakes makes for a very very interesting drive through rush hour traffic.
oh... and I was running Hawk HPS and Ford brake fluid (fresh)
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[quote name='GreyGT-C' date='May 8 2005, 07:25 PM']cheers, why didn't you go with a higher grade pad? Blues maybe?
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well the competition I do are solo sprint type events or also known as solo1 or time trial events, or HPDE.
it is 3 timed hot laps, 1 warm up, and 1/2 cool down lap. With about a 30 min session in the morning for lapping to get familiar with the track. So i was hoping a decent street pad/autox pad would work for only 3 hot laps at a time.
For the school it was full 45 mins of hammering on the car with 4 sessions per day. I must admit I was under prepared in the braking dept. I believe Hawk blues are too agressive of a pad for the type of racing I do as it takes time to get them hot enough. Hawk blacks may work.
some pads i'm thinking of trying out are:
Satisfied Grandsport GS3 series pads (there were two other rx7s there, both very well prepped and class leaders, one 2nd gen s5t2 and a 3rd gen) both of them are running this pad and I went for a ride along.... let say I thought I was going to die and I proibably bent their floor baord from bracing myself against it.
EBC yellow - hard to get, i tried to get some 2 months ago, it's not even in the 2005 catalog for the distributors of EBC in canada any most of the USA.
Hawk blues - i'mnot a fan of hawk because they contain copper in their pads which chews up rotors like mad
Williams Performance HT.110 but they are back ordered for forever.
I'm going to try to use ATE super blue if I can find some. Not so easy in Toronto as USA.
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well the competition I do are solo sprint type events or also known as solo1 or time trial events, or HPDE.
it is 3 timed hot laps, 1 warm up, and 1/2 cool down lap. With about a 30 min session in the morning for lapping to get familiar with the track. So i was hoping a decent street pad/autox pad would work for only 3 hot laps at a time.
For the school it was full 45 mins of hammering on the car with 4 sessions per day. I must admit I was under prepared in the braking dept. I believe Hawk blues are too agressive of a pad for the type of racing I do as it takes time to get them hot enough. Hawk blacks may work.
some pads i'm thinking of trying out are:
Satisfied Grandsport GS3 series pads (there were two other rx7s there, both very well prepped and class leaders, one 2nd gen s5t2 and a 3rd gen) both of them are running this pad and I went for a ride along.... let say I thought I was going to die and I proibably bent their floor baord from bracing myself against it.
EBC yellow - hard to get, i tried to get some 2 months ago, it's not even in the 2005 catalog for the distributors of EBC in canada any most of the USA.
Hawk blues - i'mnot a fan of hawk because they contain copper in their pads which chews up rotors like mad
Williams Performance HT.110 but they are back ordered for forever.
I'm going to try to use ATE super blue if I can find some. Not so easy in Toronto as USA.
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From: Bayou-self Louisiana
I have always used the Motul. Long endorance races aand 20 minute club sprints.I have done a Solo one and it was at R/A .ITs so long with high speed that you do need a high grade fluid or it will deginerate after the 1st few high speed brake zones.
I have no experience with others.Ford blue is in my FD.
I have no experience with others.Ford blue is in my FD.
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Joined: Feb 2002
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I have been using Motul 600 for over five years now. I road race and with this fluid (using Hawk Blue front and HP-Plus rears), and have never experienced brake problems. I flush the fluid before every race weekend which to me is cheap insurance at $11 a shot.
I highly recommend it.
I highly recommend it.
