Do you have to bleed ATE constantly or can you just leave it? I usually run that Valvoline Synthetic and its fine for the street and track. Just wondering if I should step up my fluid game

 

It's too late to get ready for a track day now. Sorry, Clark.


DOT4 brake fluid is fine for the street (unlike track pads, which do work on the street, but are annoying as HELL.) It should be flushed every 2yrs IMHO. DOT3 fluid should be good for 5-6years.

 

It's never too late. Come on Pete, it'll be fun...

Sam said he'd cover 1/2 the cost of the registration...

 

Running out of reasons pete.

j/k understand though. hard to just hop in the car and head to the track for 2 days especially if you're starting to get your business going. But, this may be one of those times when you get to be spontaneous.

 

Well I know some of the race-oriented brake fluids have to be flushed when you go to the track each time. Just wondering if thats how ATE Super Blue is

 

I'd love to go. If I had known it wasn't hondas only, I would have planned ahead. Unfortunatly, I just can't make it.

 

you could have slapped and H emblem on the vette and call it the new prelude.

 

SimpleMan,

ATE should be good, depending on your usage, for anywhere between 3 full and hard track weekends all the way through an entire summer of tracking.

I really only think people that are on a full-on proper racing program flush for each event.

If you're asking the question, then chances are your usage would only require you to flush once a year at the beginning of the season and bleed the brakes only if you suspect a problem.

This of course is only one opinion. I know of people who insist on bleeding their brakes prior to each event. I personally find that you're as likely to introduce an error (strip or break a bleed screw, add air instead of remove it, etc.) as you are to fix something that may not need fixing.

Again this is relative to the intensity and discipline of your program.

 

Thanks for the help Clark. This summer will only be spent going to open track days a few times to get my car dialed in, but next year I'm hoping to compete in the Redline Time Attack Series in Street class.

 

Sure thing SimpleMan, and I hope you get a broad response of opinions to your question, as mine is but only one.

However, just for comparison, I do about a dozen + track days a summer and go for maximum track time (now on Hoosiers, before on Toyo RA-1), including some pretty demanding tracks on brakes for our area (Road America, Blackhawk) , and go through at those tracks a set of aggressive pads per day (I'm in love with Wilwood Polymatrix A, I find them more aggressive and stable than Hawk HT-10 or DTC 70 for instance) and I only flush once mid-summer.

I'd imagine Redline Time Attack Street Class to be less demanding on brake fluid.