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

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  1. Defrost panel, Bilstein damper, iPod adaptor 05

    by , 19-06-2014 at 11:35 PM (Today at Atelier Kaz - ex-Honda R&D, F1, Indy/CART engineer)







    Time for the time consuming dashboard alignment.


    Each NSX is hand build and it causes noise issue from different position.

    This NSX seems to be the very early model that even after removing/installing
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  2. Defrost panel, Bilstein damper, iPod adaptor 04

    by , 19-06-2014 at 11:22 PM (Today at Atelier Kaz - ex-Honda R&D, F1, Indy/CART engineer)

    While the seats are out, good opportunity to clean the carpet. I found several changes there.
    Someone already removed the seat in the past and instead of unlocking the cable tie, decided to chop off the fixing that the cable tie was doing nothing.
    One
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  3. Defrost panel, Bilstein damper, iPod adaptor 03

    by , 19-06-2014 at 11:09 PM (Today at Atelier Kaz - ex-Honda R&D, F1, Indy/CART engineer)

    Before removing the Alpine Audio Head Unit in preparation for the dashboard removal, temporarily installed the USA Spec PA11-HON.



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  4. Defrost panel, Bilstein damper, iPod adaptor 02

    by , 19-06-2014 at 03:26 PM (Today at Atelier Kaz - ex-Honda R&D, F1, Indy/CART engineer)



    Initially, we were also planning to address the slow window operation at the left side door but due to several parts on back order for nearly 12 months, it's now looking like to be done in the future service.

    As we are already preparing for the ABS upgrade before the parts price goes up again from 01/Jul, probably do it at the same time.
    I even ordered the last parts stock in Japan and US for the window service so these will be on long back order again.
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  5. Defrost panel, Bilstein damper, iPod adaptor 01

    by , 19-06-2014 at 03:12 PM (Today at Atelier Kaz - ex-Honda R&D, F1, Indy/CART engineer)
    Started to work on another NSX from last week.
    The service menu is to replace the completely cracked defrost panel, installation of Bilstein damper with existing OEM spring, installation of USA Spec PA11-HON iPod adaptor, CL Hyd sys, etc.


    As always, before touching anything, carried out the test driving session.

    It was very warm day and in order to get the base line ride height in preparation for Bilstein damper installation, set the tyre pressure at 40/33 ...