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

3 x new coolant hoses replaced and dressed although you won’t be able to
see them later as they are going to be under the header tank.....




Lots of dust, gunk, etc inside the engine bay so gave good cleaning. ...

Tags: coolant hose, eng bay, eng installation, eng removal, fuel filter

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TB/WP/Valve Service

The biggest surprise was the state of the oil cooler.

For this year model, I was expecting to ...

Tags: eng removal, mtf, mtf strainer, oil cooler

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TB/WP/Valve Service

Warmed up the engine and time for the compression check.
Already reported to the owner but slight hesitation experienced on
the engine at this point although no CEL so probably just my ears
and feelings.

Full data has been informed to the owner through email.

[psi]
#1: **9 #2: **2 #3: **0 ...

Tags: battery, battery post, compression check, eng removal, gnd cable, th body, th butterfly

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TB/WP/Valve Service

Waited long enough so time to pour the eng oil.
New filter filled with Mobil 1.


Just putting everything back in place.



Some owners made simple metal bar for routing the cable of the rear O2 ...

Tags: cat nut, eng installation, eng oil, eng removal, o2 sensor, oil filter

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Eng Refresh Stage 1 + LMA

Not looking forward in painting this rear valve cover.
It’s going to take some time for the preparation…..




Time to look into the rear O2 sensor.
I can confirm that it was cross-threaded last ...

Tags: eng removal, engine removal, o2 sensor, valve cover

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Eng Refresh Stage 1 + LMA