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[wheel]

Brake fluid, except when you first open the bottle, is never really totally dry or totally wet (unless you never bleed your brakes), it is usually somewhere in between. So, you have to pick your brake fluid and set up your bleeding schedule based on the middle ground. In some cases, you have to bleed every race, since the brake fluid will reach the lower temperature almost every session (ASedan for one). In other cases, your brake fluid will never reach the wet temperature, unless there is something wrong with the brake system, or you are a terrible driver. SM falls into this category. So, Dave is correct, you should never leave the brake fluid in long enough to reach a wet status. Pick a fluid you can afford, that has decent numbers, and bleed frequently.
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[ChrisA]

Guys, I guess I'm arguing that of these two products, Castrol LMA & SRF. If you recommend LMA and it needs to be changed frequently to keep it close to it's Dry BP to avoid issues at the track. Then you would be safe using SRF and not changing it frequently, because it's Wet BP is much higher than the LMA's at any point in it's life. That seems pretty cut & dry to me. Now whether it is cost effective is another issue. I'm so used to bleeding before each event (unless they're back-to-back weekends) that I'm not sure I could "mentally" leave SRF in for an extended time, although it's rating suggests I could.