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

It is my standard procedure to loosen the locking nut and
remove the alignment bolts to apply the silicone grease
in order to prevent the oxidation resulting in seizure to
the bush metal collar.

Also, it is the courtesy to the alignment service personnel to
loosen all the locking nuts and check the movement of the
alignment adjusters because quite often,
the locking nuts are really seized and also you don’t want to
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Alignment

As all of the tyres are replaced with the Neova AD-08 and
I felt the steering was not pointing straight during the Health Check,
recommended the owner to take the alignment service in the near future.









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Personal View/Self Talk

For the first time, decided to go back to the alignment
place for the 2nd session as I was not happy with the
test driving feeling.


At the end, we carried out the whole process twice and
confirmed that it was due to the status of the
bush/damper/etc very likely to be at the rear side.


Thank you to Leon at JPS Motorsport for spending extra
hours on this NSX at free of charge for the analysis.
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Updated 18-04-2012 at 02:55 PM by Kaz-kzukNA1

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Health Check Service , Alignment , Body

After initial inspection and preparation, the NSX is on the alignment platform.

The system is re-calibrated at least once a year and it went through this process recently.
For some reason, every time when we do the re-cal, it seems to make the system
very sensitive even for just a tiny adjustment.



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Updated 18-04-2012 at 01:57 PM by Kaz-kzukNA1

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Alignment

Looks like someone with not much experience on NSX alignment carried out the process
in the past.

These two arrows at the rear toe control arm should be lined up otherwise, the ball
joint won’t have enough travel under certain conditions.

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Updated 02-07-2013 at 03:47 PM by Kaz-kzukNA1

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Alignment