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  1. Interior noise 10

    by , 30-07-2011 at 11:37 PM (Today at Atelier Kaz - ex-Honda R&D, F1, Indy/CART engineer)








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    Sun visors back in place, rear panels with new clips and some special treatment installed, repaired the broken fixing tab at the knee panel on the driver side, and time for the first test driving session.


    It has improved a lot but because of this, I started ...
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  2. Interior noise 09

    by , 29-07-2011 at 11:35 PM (Today at Atelier Kaz - ex-Honda R&D, F1, Indy/CART engineer)








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    Left A-pillar trim looks much better now.









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    Tyrap base attached to the bottom of the glove box to hold some of the extra cables installed on this NSX.


    Placed some medium thick foam at the panel below the glove box as the alignment pin was already ...
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  3. Interior noise 08

    by , 28-07-2011 at 11:39 PM (Today at Atelier Kaz - ex-Honda R&D, F1, Indy/CART engineer)



    Dealing with the noise issue is a time consuming task.


    If you try to fix one issue, it may cause new one.




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    Using the heater gun and ice cube to repair the heavily deformed left side A-pillar trim.


    Always remove the springs behind the trim and install them on the chassis first and then push in the trim.


    Lots of people will keep the ...
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  4. Interior noise 07

    by , 28-07-2011 at 11:37 PM (Today at Atelier Kaz - ex-Honda R&D, F1, Indy/CART engineer)



    The defrost panel is now placed inside the cabin.

    My imagination was not too bad.





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    Almost perfect angle and just required tiny amount of adjustment for the fixing bolt hole.


    As I didn’t like one of the tired plastic fastener at the left side, replaced it with aftermarket new one.

    It holds the panel much better. ...
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  5. Interior noise 06

    by , 27-07-2011 at 11:40 PM (Today at Atelier Kaz - ex-Honda R&D, F1, Indy/CART engineer)





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    Now the biggest challenge is the completely broken fixing tabs at the centre left and right of the panel.


    It would be much quicker and easier to simply replace this panel with the new one but it will cost US$238+delivery+tax, etc even from US and Honda UK will charge you GBP368+VAT…


    If one of the tab was only partially damaged, I could use it as ...
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