[Shotimes] Brake Upgrade time... again
Paul Nimz
pnimz@v8sho.com
Tue, 1 Nov 2005 08:47:42 -0600
Thank you
Where's the best place to buy the ATE fluid? Is this the one that is two
different colors?
Paul
On 11/1/2005 7:09:17 AM, G Kerby Haltom (g.kerby@sbcglobal.net) wrote:
> Multi-piston calipers do a much better job at
> transferring the clamping force evenly than these
> stupid 1 piston, pin-slider things. Think of gluing
> two boards together. Do you want 1 big clamp in the
> middle, or several smaller ones all along the boards?
>
> I've been loving my Porterfield R-4S pads I put on
> this past spring.
>
> I would also move up to the Ate fluid. Valvoline
> Synthetic is a good fluid, but the Ate has a higher
> boiling point.
>
> Kerby
>
> --- Paul Nimz <pnimz@v8sho.com> wrote:
>
> > Mark
> >
> > On my '97
> I still have OEM brake calipers and
> > rotors, pads are OEM Ford in
> > front and PF AutoZone pads in the back on the solid
> > rotors. It works well for
> > me but after a day at a track the front needs to be
> > bled, in fact after about
> > three sessions the brake pedal starts to go soft.
> > :( This is telling me that
> > the fronts are boiling the brake fluid. I always
> > use fresh Valvoline
> > synthetic fluid before a track day.
> >
> > Kirk has finally convinced me to go with the Cobra
> > dual piston calipers up
> > front. What are