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

Some notes from the Health Check.



Please consider replacing all of the coolant hoses and cramps.
You can check the manufactured date from the label on the hose. One of them is showing as 14/Nov/01 so about 13 years old.
All of the hoses are similar age and after 10 years ...

Updated 07-08-2014 at 10:23 PM by Kaz-kzukNA1 (corrected position info. FR, not RR.)

Tags: coolant hose, header tank, reservoir, tyre

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Health Check Service

Started to work on another NSX from this week.
The service menu is to carry out Health Check combined with the annual service and refresh the brake system.


Some notes from the test driving session before removing anything.

• Very heavy CL pedal but without any slip on hard acceleration.
  As it's a single disc type, hard to predict

...

Tags: fan control unit, fcu, health check, test driving, tyre

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Health Check Service

As reported earlier, I had puncture on MX5 recently and
instead of repairing the worn one, decided to replace all four tyres.


I used to love Toyo Proxus T1-R on MX5 but it was getting harder to
find it with short notice so decided to try something else.
It’s mainly used by my boss with very limited annual mileage ...

Updated 30-03-2014 at 01:38 PM by Kaz-kzukNA1

Tags: energy saver +, michelin, tyre

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Engine/Tyre , Personal View/Self Talk

Started to work on another NSX.
The service menu is Health Check, brake OH, cooling system OH, alignment, etc.


On arrival, I noticed that the front tyres were very old.
Probably from 1997 ??? 16 years old....
Already tiny cracks were emerging at the tread and later, it was not fun test driving it especially
when I had to ...

Updated 11-11-2013 at 02:32 PM by Kaz-kzukNA1

Tags: a/c belt tension, health check, th cable, tyre

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Health Check Service

The existing rear and front ones.

Although there were plenty of tread left on all four tyres, ...

Tags: ad-08, ad08, neova, tyre

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Engine/Tyre