Re: alfa-digest V8 #236 - Brake upgrades

[AlfaNeely@domain.elided]

      Get rid of the Valvoline Synthetic.  I used it in my Alfa Spider race 
car because it had great appearing dry boiling point.  Turns out, I developed 
way too much brake pedal travel and spongy brakes.  I changed back to ATE 
fluid and put in a new set of front Porterfield pads.  Brakes are now back to 
reasonable for a race car.
       That was at Alfa Rodeo at Hallett Oklahoma last July.  Andy Garcia was 
there with his GTV-6 race car.  He also had been using Valvoline and we both 
switched back to ATE at the same time.  
      Valvoline works fine on the street, if you never get the fluid hot.  I 
prefer Dot 4 fluid, so that means Castrol LMA or ATE.  Plus the ATE Super 
Blue Racing Fluid has a pretty blue color <grin>.  It is also available in 
the ordinary yellowish color.  I got the ATE fluid from Centerline last 
summer.
       If you just want pretty brake fluid, add a drop of food coloring to 
any old fluid.  Old racers trick, or at least I heard it from an old racer - 
change colors a lot so you can tell when you are done bleeding the system.

Ciao,
Russ Neely
Oklahoma City



In a message dated 11/19/2001 2:59:45 PM Central Standard Time, 
owner-alfa-digest@domain.elided writes:



> Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 12:37:36 -0800 (PST)
> From: Zamani Zambri <zzambrimail@domain.elided>
> Subject: Brake upgrades
> 
> Hi Guys,
> 


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> 
> One other thing, brake sponginess, how can I cure it? I bleed the
> brakes many times but it gets spongy after a while. Milano Gold
> (no-abs) Valvoline Synthetic DOT4 fluid, porterfield pads, original
> brake master cylinder.
> 
> Thanks.

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