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

It is very unlikely that the engine will be out of the engine bay again
for another 10 years so gave a good cleaning inside there.




Much easier to replace the fuel filter while the engine is out.
Brown coloured ...

Tags: crank end seal, end seal, eng bay, engine bay, exh gasket, exhaust gasket, flywheel, fuel filter, oil pan, sump pan

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Eng Refresh Stage 1 + LMA

As reported earlier, someone just opened the idle adjust screw without
cleaning the TH body in the past.

Now the TH body is so much cleaner that the extra air was passing through
the idle air port.
Initially, the adjust screw on this engine was sitting almost close to
the edge, like 0.5 – 1mm away. There was also ...

Tags: banjo bolt, bleeder plug, idle adjust screw, oil pan, pressure bleed, sump

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Eng Refresh Stage 1 + LMA

In Japan, we cerebrate almost any occasions on the calendar but
New Year’s day is one of the most important one for us.
We celebrate Christmas as well but it’s normal working day for
most of the companies.

As I’m bit behind the schedule, just a quick break and back to work.






Managed to ...

Tags: a/c idle pulley, boot lid, boot lid damper, boot lid strut, header, idle pulley, oil pan

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Engine Refresh Stage 2

Despite the very wet cyl block from the oil seepage, the oil pan was very dry with no leakage from the gasket.
From the colour of the drain bolt and trace of black liquid gasket, I’m quite sure this was replaced in the past.

Very good decision.



Based on the super dirty ...

Tags: cat, oil pan

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TB/WP/Valve Service

Another Eng oil and filter session.

Just drain it from the bottom as much as possible and fill up the new oil filter with
the fresh eng oil.

You can extract another ...

Updated 18-04-2012 at 02:50 PM by Kaz-kzukNA1

Tags: engine oil, oil filter, oil pan

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Engine/Tyre