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  1. R12 and R134a A/C

    by , 17-07-2014 at 12:01 PM (Today at Atelier Kaz - ex-Honda R&D, F1, Indy/CART engineer)
    I wrote this for a thread on NSX Prime but some of the info may become useful for some of the readers here so I'm going to cut and paste my post.


    Original post here.

    While it may look the same, there are several differences between the R12 and R134a evap assy.
    Because it looks identical and the fitting is the same, both type will fit on any NSX apart from the difference between the LHD and RHD so in order to distinguish the difference, Honda placed small
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  2. A/C Evapo Cleaning

    by , 06-03-2013 at 10:27 PM (Today at Atelier Kaz - ex-Honda R&D, F1, Indy/CART engineer)



    Can’t move the car without brake and since re-booked the
    alignment service for next week, decided to change the
    order of remaining services.







    The A/C evaporator was fairly clean with just surface dust but
    when applied compressed air to the bottom of the case,
    all sorts of things came out.
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    Heater, A/C
  3. A/C CCU Board Service 02

    by , 06-12-2012 at 10:37 PM (Today at Atelier Kaz - ex-Honda R&D, F1, Indy/CART engineer)












    Rebuilding, rebuilding, rebuilding............

    Lots of hard wires,
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  4. A/C CCU Board Service 01

    by , 05-12-2012 at 03:47 PM (Today at Atelier Kaz - ex-Honda R&D, F1, Indy/CART engineer)




    Another owner sent in the CCU board for service.

    I was informed that the board lost its power and
    nothing showed up on the CCU display.
    There was no air coming out and just nothing, it's dead.......


    So, opened the package and immediately I noticed the strange smell.
    It was the same sort of smell when the Bose speaker AMP got burnt
    behind one of its four FETs.

    I never experienced this smell with
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  5. A/C CCU Board Service 02

    by , 02-12-2012 at 03:20 PM (Today at Atelier Kaz - ex-Honda R&D, F1, Indy/CART engineer)



    The acid managed to penetrate through the board quite deep and
    part of the pad in this area was completely dissolved so
    I had to use different method to re-create and strengthen the
    missing copper pad.






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