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  1. Final Touch 02

    by , 21-05-2014 at 01:03 PM (Today at Atelier Kaz - ex-Honda R&D, F1, Indy/CART engineer)





    Started the flushing service on the classic ABS and as soon as I opened the
    bleeder plug, I knew it’s going to take long time.

    Nothing came out from the accumulator......
    Not a single drip......

    So the accumulator was completely empty.
    Manually activated the ABS pump and immediately, I found the cause of the
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  2. Final Touch 01

    by , 21-05-2014 at 12:52 PM (Today at Atelier Kaz - ex-Honda R&D, F1, Indy/CART engineer)




    I’ve already completed short distance multiple test driving sessions before
    going out for the long run so doing another catch up updating the blog.......




    After all these weeks, by now, the bottom section of the radiator should be dry.

    However, after so many fire up, I noticed this at the right bottom
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  3. Eng Refresh 30

    by , 17-05-2014 at 02:50 PM (Today at Atelier Kaz - ex-Honda R&D, F1, Indy/CART engineer)

    Ear plugs in, connected the battery and dis-arm the security siren.
    As always, never over-tighten the cable terminal.
    If done properly, you should see some gap like this.




    After leaving the cooling system under vacuum for nearly
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  4. Eng Refresh 29

    by , 17-05-2014 at 02:42 PM (Today at Atelier Kaz - ex-Honda R&D, F1, Indy/CART engineer)






    Quick oil change in preparation for the fire up.
    As my standard procedure, fresh Mobil 1 in the oil filter but probably not required.




    Vacuum leak check of the cooling sys.
    There was super
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  5. Eng Refresh 28

    by , 16-05-2014 at 01:37 PM (Today at Atelier Kaz - ex-Honda R&D, F1, Indy/CART engineer)




    By now, I should have finished the 1st stage test driving session but
    I haven’t even managed to carry out the vacuum leak check on the
    cooling system yet so not fired up the engine at all.


    Things were going smoothly until I started installing the exh pipe.
    When I started working on this NSX, I noticed that some of the bolts and
    nuts were not torqued to the spec and bit loose but no cross-thread so
    I just thought
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