Brake Fade a risk for first time tracker?

brucelidat · 12-18-2011, 02:59 PM

So did the track day/course at Buttonwillow yesterday. Had no brake problems, but I wasn't braking as much as I should have probably. Hit a few turns too fats, heh. But in cold temps, even on the track, my oil temps were only getting up to like 190 and sometimes was under 180. I may need a new smaller oil cooler block off plate just for winter track days.

FL 4Motion · 12-18-2011, 07:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Island_370

Dry DOT 3 is better than wet (meaning old) DOT4. So if the fluid in the car is old DOT4, adding fresh DOT3 will actually help. Fresh fluid is always better than old fluid. Per the standards.....Wet DOT5.1 (the best glycol fluid) boils lower than new DOT3.

So leaving in old RBF600 may (and I emphasize MAY) be worse than new DOT3. But mixing DOT3, 4, and 5.1 is not like mixing those with DOT5. DOT5 can only be used with DOT5. The fluids cannot be mixed.

I agree with you....if going to the track, shortcuts are never good.

thanks for the explaination.

We (wife and I) just do a full brake/clutch fluid flush every 6 months with RBF 600, I prefer to be safe than sorry, even if it is a bit of overkill.

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Originally Posted by brucelidat

So did the track day/course at Buttonwillow yesterday. Had no brake problems, but I wasn't braking as much as I should have probably. Hit a few turns too fats, heh. But in cold temps, even on the track, my oil temps were only getting up to like 190 and sometimes was under 180. I may need a new smaller oil cooler block off plate just for winter track days.

/\ sounds like you had fun. I'm sure as you get faster, your oil temps will correspondingly go up a bit.

SiRay6 · 12-19-2011, 02:15 AM

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Originally Posted by brucelidat

So did the track day/course at Buttonwillow yesterday. Had no brake problems, but I wasn't braking as much as I should have probably. Hit a few turns too fats, heh. But in cold temps, even on the track, my oil temps were only getting up to like 190 and sometimes was under 180. I may need a new smaller oil cooler block off plate just for winter track days.

Exactly what I thought would happen. No need for race pads (yet)

BW does not need that much braking...all about momentum. How did the AMS pads hold up? Did they feel better than stock by a little, almost the same, or much better? Do you have a review?

Also, what config did you end up doing? CW or CCW? Did you do a write up of your first track event or one of BW?

It sounds to me like your oil temps were great. Were you hoping for higher temps?

Nice pictures...were you doing CCW? one of the photos looked like a ccw config? Lastly, VDC off or on?

-Ray

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