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Originally Posted by CrowsFeast
It seems you and I have had significantly different experiences with braking setups. I'm starting to be suspicious it's the S2000's fault!
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Ha! Kinda impossible tho, no way with the same car, brake pads, and tires that the S2k coulda somehow thrown more heat at ATE200 fluid vs. off-the-shelf DOT4!
That was my one foray into "specialized" brake fluid. IMO it's overprescribed and overused and in most cases for tracked cars, totally unnecessary.
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Still, I wouldn't say no to name brand dot 4/5.1. Motul stuff is too expensive for my tastes. 2-3x as much as ATE200 where I've looked.
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My approach is, as long as off-the-shelf DOT4 or DOT5.1 continue to work well with no discernable negatives, why bother with harder to get and way more pricey fluids? I think a lot of folks assume that ATE200, RBF600, etc. are just "better", but I don't know if that's even true. I think people just look at published wet/dry boiling points and assume higher number = always "better". But if they degrade and become more compressible under multiple heating cycles like the AT200 did in my case, that's not "better"...