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Re[2]: silicone brake fluid - long response. Pass if you choose.
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 14:19:53 -0400 Diana and Mike Kohlbrenner <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: [email protected] <[email protected]>
> > ...So what is the advantage of Silisone brake fluid?
> > It doesn't compress as much as DOT4/3 giving better brake
> > performance and feel.
> Glycol fluid is pretty much incompressible.
> Somewhere I recall hearing that silicone fluid gets spongy
> at higher temperatures.
the usual presumption is that brake fluid turns compressible at its boiling
point. silicone fluids turn compressible at temps which are lower than
their boiling point.
> > Has a higher boiling point.
> > Great for RACINGand RACING BUDGETS!!
> I'm fairly certain they don't use silicone brake fluid for racing.
> They will use fancy $70/liter synthetic fluid, but it's not silicone.
the synthetic motul racing is really cool stuff. what it isn't is silicone.
i know some racers who use silicone fluids, but damn few.
> Silicone seems to only be used by folks with garage queen
> show cars that spend so much on paint jobs that they don't
> want to risk spilling glycol fluid on it. One of the other traits
> of silicone brake fluid is that it doesn't harm paint.
it's really the only interesting and useful property of the stuff.
richard
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