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mattysaidso

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Hi,

Just about to flush the old fluid in my 33 GTST. Want some suggestions for a decent quality brake fluid thats; A: readily available B: not stupidly expensive.

Car is being built for weekend circuit stuff and occasional drift days.

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I get away with Nulon Xtreme (280 degrees) - not as good as Motul (315 degrees), but a lot cheaper and easy to find. Last time i bought the Motul is was $25/500ml, Nulon was $11/500ml.

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I get away with Nulon Xtreme (280 degrees) - not as good as Motul (315 degrees), but a lot cheaper and easy to find. Last time i bought the Motul is was $25/500ml, Nulon was $11/500ml.

I use this too, so far I have used it on mountain roads, drifting and 'fun' track days, never let me down at all. It comes on sale sometimes for $8 too.

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R TUNE

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I have been using the motul dot 5 up in darwin. im now going to the bendix super dot 4 which is $8/500ml compared with $30/500ml for motul. My reason for the swap motul is a lot harder to get now with the closure of autobarhn.

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In New Zealand Toyota dealers have started selling Motul products under the TRD (Toyota Racing Development) brand. I got Motul RBF600 brake fluid for about $20. It is genuine Motul - the label says TRD Sport Brake Fluid by Motul and says made in France by Motul and distributed by TRD Asia so maybe you could check out your local Toyota Dealer. They also sell the Motul racing synthetic oils.

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Not a bad thread. I was using the Xtreme dot 4 fluid, albeit too old, and it boiled and failed completely on my last track day. The car is an HR31 GTS coupe with standard brake master cyl and booster with R33 gtst front brakes (RB74 pads and DBA 4000 slotted discs). I dont remember the old fluid costing too much but what is a next step up from that? I don't really understand the dot rating, master cyl says to use dot 3, is that just as a minimum?

niZmO_Man Grand Master

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Run 'Super DOT 4', don't bother looking at DOT 3.

Besides Ripco, it seems other stores aren't stocking Penrite Racing brake fluid any more :( (unless you buy online). You can get Nulon equivalent from Supercheap/etc though.

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