[alfa] Re: Racing & brakes

[Joe Elliott <jee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've never seen the Elf or Brembo fluids in the USA (but I haven't 
looked for them, either).  I use ATE Super Blue in my daily driver 
GTV-6 which sees occasional track time.  I use Motul 600 in the 
purpose-built race car that I'm responsible for.  Like Anthony's Elf 
fluid, the Motul 600 has a dry boiling point of 307C and costs less 
than half of what Castrol SRF does.  I use the ATE in my road car 
because it's another factor of two cheaper, and while its dry boiling 
point of 280C isn't terribly impressive, its wet boiling point of 
200C is only 16 degrees short of the Motul 600, and it seems to work. 
I think the wet boiling point is pretty important because my Alfa 
sometimes goes up to a year between brake fluid changes.  (The pricey 
Castrol SRF is the wet-boiling champ by a large margin--270C, almost 
as hot as the ATE boils dry!)  I put together this table comparing 
some of the fluids that are readily available in the USA: 
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/jee/fluid.html.

Joe Elliott
'82 GTV-6


At 2:41 AM +0000 10/19/04, alfa-digest wrote:

> Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 08:57:02 +1300
> From: White Anthony <anthony.white@domain.elided>
> Subject: RE: [alfa] Racing & brakes
>
> Al Mitchell asked:
> "What kind of brake fluid does everybody here use?"
>
> I can't vouch for anybody else, but Elf XT3167 is the best value for money
> fluid that I've found.  It has low compressibility, and a dry boiling temp of
> 307 degrees Celsius.  The top end brake fluids, Brembo LCF600 Plus and
> Castrol SRF have dry boiling points of 316 degrees C and 310 degrees C
> respectively, and are about twice the price of the Elf fluid. 
> Regards,
> Anthony White
> Wellington, NZ
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