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  1. MX5 Engine Refresh 04

    by , 05-10-2012 at 10:11 PM (Today at Atelier Kaz - ex-Honda R&D, F1, Indy/CART engineer)







    Vacuum filled the cooling system.

    The silicone sealant on the drain plug worked well for a
    temporally fix although I don’t want to loose coolant on the
    motorway so already placed the order to Japan.

    After installing the cam shafts, I rotated the crank by hand
    many times but before firing
    ...
  2. MX5 Engine Refresh 03

    by , 04-10-2012 at 10:19 PM (Today at Atelier Kaz - ex-Honda R&D, F1, Indy/CART engineer)








    New WP installed.

    The bearing on the existing one showed some friction so once again,
    best to replace WP at the time of TB service on our NSX as well.






    ...
  3. CCU Illumination

    by , 02-10-2012 at 12:14 PM (Today at Atelier Kaz - ex-Honda R&D, F1, Indy/CART engineer)



    While working on MX5 engine, I was looking into the way on how to
    disable the dim function on the illumination at CCU display (VFD).


    Can’t remember how it used to be when my NSX was new but
    as many owners experienced,
    it is almost impossible to see anything on the display of Clock, CCU and
    Audio Head Unit during the daylight when the small side light is
    switched on.


    As reported earlier in this
    ...
  4. MX5 Engine Refresh 02

    by , 01-10-2012 at 10:37 PM (Today at Atelier Kaz - ex-Honda R&D, F1, Indy/CART engineer)



    Making good progress although my hands and hair were covered in engine oil......








    Overhauling the HLA.

    After washing these in the parts cleaner, rinsed them in the brake cleaner and
    then time to assemble them in the bucket of engine oil.


    It’s been a while since
    ...
  5. MX5 Engine Refresh 01

    by , 27-09-2012 at 10:27 PM (Today at Atelier Kaz - ex-Honda R&D, F1, Indy/CART engineer)







    As this is NSX site, I won’t go too much in detail for non-NSX related service.

    I’m just posting this for the owners waiting for my service so that
    they have some idea on what is happening at my place at the moment.


    Also, there are several topics that can be shared with NSX so
    I’ll touch
    ...

    Updated 28-09-2012 at 01:26 PM by Kaz-kzukNA1

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