JJIMBO

Starting to run the car on road courses and the locals suggest going to a dot 5 fluid to keep it from boiling. The shop I am using states that they are willing but they have read somewhere that the DOT 5 with Silicone fouls up the ABS system with the result a solenoid valve or something with a price tag of around 1200 being the main victim.

Anybody have any experience with high temp brake fluid, WITH THE ABS system still in service on 2002 Camaros?

trackbird

iTrader: (4)

DO NOT use DOT 5. It will give you a spongy pedal (it can be compressed). Use good quality DOT 4 or DOT 5.1 (not 5, but 5.1). Many use Valvoline Synpower (and the specs on it are good), or ATE Superblue (it's a bit better and it's what I use) or you can go "all out" and get Castrol (at $69 a liter or so).

When you are just starting out, you'll have lots to worry about before you start boiling fluid. However, it's a good idea to change it to something decent (Synpower, ATE, Motul, etc) before you go and get the old stuff out of there. I would not use DOT 5 though.

VIP1

Here are StopTech's Whitepapers:
http://www.stoptech.com/tech_info/te...e_papers.shtml

Here is their specific whitepaper on brake fluid:
http://www.stoptech.com/tech_info/wp...fluid_1a.shtml
(Its a good read.)

Like trackbird said, you don't want DOT5.

steve-d

iTrader: (7)

http://www.gs610.com/silicone.htm