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Old Feb 3, 2008 | 12:02 AM
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Originally Posted by LegendaryHarry,Feb 3 2008, 01:00 AM
i also heard that it is a common characteristic of the super blue to make the brake feel a bit softer than oem honda fluid.
Who told you that? All brake fluid is incompressible. There should be no difference in feel.
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Old Feb 3, 2008 | 12:18 AM
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g-s2k and s2ktaxi ..
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Old Feb 3, 2008 | 11:03 AM
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I've never noticed a diference between brake fluid in terms of pedal feel. I've used OEM, Valvoline SynPower, ATE Super Blue and ATE Gold (the same as Super Blue, but without the blue dye).

After I bleed my brakes, and I've done that a lot, the pedal never feels less stiff than before. I agree with Mike, bleed them again and see if that helps. I does sound like you used the correct method.
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Old Feb 3, 2008 | 11:58 AM
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There are slight differences in viscosity, several brake fluids give numbers to compare, but I can't feel a difference personally.

Any additional travel is air, but as usual mike is right, pad feel can be significantly different and make it seem odd. The multipumps to stiffness is classic.
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Old Feb 3, 2008 | 05:59 PM
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Just wanted to throw this in there. When bleeding brakes you want to start the furthest from the master cylinder and work your way up. This will ensure all the air bubbles are out of the lines. So in this case, go in this order, RR, LR, RF, LF.
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Old Feb 3, 2008 | 06:03 PM
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[QUOTE=Fastblack2K,Feb 3 2008, 06:59 PM] Just wanted to throw this in there.
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Old Feb 3, 2008 | 06:04 PM
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Originally Posted by INTJ,Feb 3 2008, 12:58 PM
There are slight differences in viscosity
Viscosity is not compressibility. (You probably knew this, but I thought it had to be mentioned.) It is very unlikely that different fluids will have a different pedal feel. They don't for me.
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Old Feb 3, 2008 | 07:07 PM
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going to do it friday. since my track day got canceled =(
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