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

Time to remove the old tired OEM dampers.





My superduper ride height check tool.
Mirror nepros made from new material 5GQ.

For the time being, this is good enough as I won’t be able to
set the ride height properly until the coilover settles.






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Updated 15-02-2013 at 12:10 PM by Kaz-kzukNA1

Tags: bc racing, coilover, damper, spring, swift

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Suspension

As mentioned in my previous blog
http://www.nsxcb.co.uk/blog.php?1811...%20engineering
sent the boot lid struts to SGS.

As always, the engineers at SGS Engineering were very helpful.






Unfortunately, this time,
the wear on the strut shaft (the pair with ...

Tags: damper, damper strut, re-gas, regas, sgs, sgs engineering, strut

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Body

As you may have already experienced, sooner or later,
your gas damper/strut at the boot lid or the rear glass hatch will
get weaker and no longer be able to hold the object in the air.


This NSX has an aftermarket rear wing that is quite heavy
compared to the OEM one.
Because of this, the OEM gas damper has ...

Updated 11-03-2017 at 02:17 PM by Kaz-kzukNA1 (correction on the force unit)

Tags: boot damper, boot lid, boot strut, damper, sgs engineering, strut

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Body

As I don’t like working on the engine while the damper is too weak to hold the hatch glass opened, decided to start replacing the dampers first.

You could recharge the gas if you want to but getting the new one from Japan is also a good option.


It comes with the stud bolt as well.


Now I don’t need to hold the Eng Hatch glass with my special padded bloom ...

Tags: boot lid, damper

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Body