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  1. Royal Wedding

    by , 29-04-2011 at 11:38 PM (Today at Atelier Kaz - ex-Honda R&D, F1, Indy/CART engineer)



    御結婚、おめでとうございます。いつまでも、お幸せに。



    It was so good to see happy couple cerebrating in their own style with friendliness and dignity.


    Made lots of people happy across the world.




    Hope these corgis also had good time… Always makes me happy when watching this even when I’m tired…

    (Courtesy of Freeview)




    Kaz

    Updated 01-05-2011 at 09:48 AM by Kaz-kzukNA1

    Categories
    Personal View/Self Talk
  2. TB/WP/Valve 02 - Prep and Compression

    by , 28-04-2011 at 11:33 PM (Today at Atelier Kaz - ex-Honda R&D, F1, Indy/CART engineer)
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    At #1 & 2 spark plug, there were noticeable amount of engine oil around the HEX bolt section.


    During the Health Check last year, I also noticed significant amount of engine oil seepage at the rear bank exhaust bank.



    Based on these, it looked like the valve cover gasket, spark plug hole seals, etc were not replaced during the last TB service.


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  3. TB/WP/Valve 01 - Prep and compression

    by , 28-04-2011 at 11:16 PM (Today at Atelier Kaz - ex-Honda R&D, F1, Indy/CART engineer)


    After the initial inspection, I noticed that someone worked on this NSX in the past.


    Last year, when I spoke with the owner, we couldn’t find some of the service history record at the time of Health Check but we were quite sure that the car had TB service in the past.


    This was backed up by the white liquid gasket seen around the valve cover and later I found it was quite easy to loosen the bolt at the crank shaft pulley.
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  4. Preparation

    by , 27-04-2011 at 10:31 PM (Today at Atelier Kaz - ex-Honda R&D, F1, Indy/CART engineer)


    So, started removing lots of parts to prepare for the compression check before start of the service.


    I’m also going to replace all cooling system hoses and cleaning the A/C evaporator so doing several things in parallel.


    The battery is also going to be replaced with a new one and having the blower motor fan out of the way will make the replacement of the coolant hoses much easier so started working under the bonnet.

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    Updated 27-04-2011 at 10:43 PM by Kaz-kzukNA1

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    Heater, A/C
  5. Air Con CCU Board Service 01

    by , 26-04-2011 at 11:18 PM (Today at Atelier Kaz - ex-Honda R&D, F1, Indy/CART engineer)


    The owner took my Health Check service last August and at that time, although it was recommended, the CCU board was not serviced.


    It passed all the standard test that I normally carry out during the Health Check and also the A/C gas level was slightly lower than the full but still performing well at that time.


    Since then, the owner only covered less than 2,000miles including the long-long journey to my place and reported that the A/C ...