Today at Atelier Kaz - ex-Honda R&D, F1, Indy/CART engineer

VTEC spool valve and oil pressure sender unit removed.

Noticed that one of the bolt holding the upper section of the solenoid to
the valve body was replaced with non-OEM one so may be someone
replaced the filter in the past.

Later, I found the bolt inside the pocket of front engine mount.

Because the bottom side of the bolt is exposed to the outside air,
quite often, the bolt can get ...

Updated 24-09-2012 at 10:01 AM by Kaz-kzukNA1 (Revised blog category.)

Tags: cyl head, honda, lma, lost motion, nsx, rocker arm, rocker shaft, spool valve, vtec

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Eng Refresh Stage 1 + LMA

Despite all these poor previous service works, I’m very impressed with the cleanness of the internal engine parts on this engine.




Probably, one the most clean engine in UK.

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Tags: blowby gas, cam shaft, lma, lost motion, valve cover

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TB/WP/Valve Service

On going project of cleaning the engine….

EGR valve cleaned.
Didn’t want to disturb the spindle so only briefly cleaned around it and cleaned the port while opening the valve manually.
The EGR tube and small chamber were also soaked in special cleaning solution and ready for the reassembly.

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Updated 01-06-2012 at 10:18 PM by Kaz-kzukNA1

Tags: egr, lma

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Engine Refresh Stage 2

You guessed it right…. I’m still cleaning the parts….
I think I’m obsessed in cleaning the parts….
Really hate peeling off the melted potting from the timing sensor.

It’s just everywhere and there is no easy solution for this so you just need to keeping scraping it off by hand.

Got bored so decided to work on the easy bits.

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Updated 01-06-2012 at 10:09 PM by Kaz-kzukNA1

Tags: lma, rocker shaft

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Engine Refresh Stage 2

As expected, some of the valve clearance was at the limit or just out of the spec so it would be interesting to see how the deviation of the compression check between the cyl will improve after this service.


Happy with the initial engine inspection stage so from here, I just keep removing the parts so that I can clean the inside of the engine.

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Updated 01-06-2012 at 10:02 PM by Kaz-kzukNA1

Tags: lma, lost motion

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Engine Refresh Stage 2