Coolant and brake fluid

[dub-disaster]

My system is fully drained and has been flushed, ready for new coolant what's the best to use ?Haynes just says ethylene glycol based anti-freeze so I'm assume it doesn't matter to much? I've got 5L of red anti freeze I used to use on my old corsa when it used to leak alot is it coool to use that?
Same for brake fluid, Haynes says dot 4 seen some people use dot 5 and I'm considering using atomec silicone fluid any one used it or recommend me a fluid ? Also how much brake fluid will I need ??

[hayesey]

use g12+ or whatever VW are calling it today. 

[ereeiz]

There used to be 2 different types but they stopped that years ago so you should be able to use anything off the shelf for antifreeze/coolant.

There's a table on wikipedia useful for comparing brake fluid boiling temps http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brake_fluid#Boiling_point

[hayesey]

I missed the brake fluid question.  Just use normal dot4.  dot5 silicon stuff is hygroscopic and needs to be changed much more regularly than dot 4 gylcol-ether stuff.  I use Motul RBF600 in mine and it's never let me down at track days, can't see the point in silicon stuff.

[Jezza-7]

How much brake fluid would you need to do the whole system?

[hayesey]

1 litre is more than enough.  Mine didn't even take 500ml but I only have one pipe from front to back.

[Jezza-7]

Ok so 2 bottles should be plenty. Always good to have spare fluid.

[Yoof]

I missed the brake fluid question.  Just use normal dot4.  dot5 silicon stuff is hygroscopic and needs to be changed much more regularly than dot 4 gylcol-ether stuff.  I use Motul RBF600 in mine and it's never let me down at track days, can't see the point in silicon stuff.

Dot 5 isn't, Dot 5.1 is  True DOT 5 is harder to come by, abit crap as a brake fluid by all accounts, silicone compresses lots compared to polyglycol (normal brake fluid).

I also use RBF600- no problems for me