Eng Refresh Stage 1 + LMA

The first thing I was worried was the intake valve guide failure that I reported several years ago.

• Intake Valve Guide failure

Since then, I kept monitoring the situation and there were further failure cases reported on both the C30A and C32B engines in Japan.

Once again, all of the failures were at the intake side and none for the exhaust one.

All of the cases in Japan were mainly on the engine ...

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Eng Refresh Stage 1 + LMA , Engine/Tyre

As mentioned several times on here, for some reason, when I start working on something, it seems to repeat or follow on another NSX.

Last week, I was carrying out some engine inspection and this week, I have been very busy inspecting another engine for strange noise issue.
The noise was not always there and when it happened, it sounded as if something was moving around inside the engine.

The noise itself was identical to the tired or ...

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Eng Refresh Stage 1 + LMA , Engine/Tyre

After bleeding the brake,
went out for the test driving session.

This is the first time I used SoS LMA so paid
extra attention at lower rpm range although
the test pipe and back box were so loud that
it eliminated almost all of the sound above 1,500rpm.

SoS LMA sounded bit different at idle rpm but probably
that’s just my ear as I knew it’s not exactly the same one
as the latest OEM one.

Happy with the ...

Tags: abs, abs flushing, engine dressing, test driving

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Eng Refresh Stage 1 + LMA , ABS Original

I just didn’t feel comfortable re-using the heavily corroded
brake banjo bolt and bleeder plug at the rear calipers so
decided to replace them.







Looks much ...

Tags: banjo bolt, bleeder plug, brake bleeding, brake caliper

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Eng Refresh Stage 1 + LMA

As reported earlier, there was no gasket used at the
connection points between the test pipe and back box
resulting in exhaust gas leakage.

Also, there was trace of carbon at the donut gasket at
the swivel joint of the header suggesting that it was leaking
from both the front and rear joints although
I couldn’t feel it at the idle rpm.

Initially, I thought I should not install the triangle gaskets ...

Updated 19-05-2013 at 10:48 AM by Kaz-kzukNA1

Tags: air cleaner element, air filter, compression check, exhaust gasket, ig coil, ig coil cover, spark plug

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Eng Refresh Stage 1 + LMA