Today at Atelier Kaz - ex-Honda R&D, F1, Indy/CART engineer

It’s time of the year that I have to do everything by myself including housekeeping, shopping, cooking, gardening, etc while helping other owners so really busy especially over the last 2 weeks so not much time for updating the blog.

Just brief description of some of the photos for the owner.




Someone cracked the bracket for the centre intake manifold cover and already rusty.




So much better with the new O2 sensor connector bracket than the heavily corroded one.




Oil cooler installed with liquid gasket at the upper two bolts.
2 new coolant hoses with new hose cramps installed as well.
One of the original hose was already swelled and very soft that it was about to explode.




The owner brought back the nicely coated valve covers, etc so started the inspection.
Personally, I prefer bit more wrinkle effect and deeper red colour but still, far better than already cracked and peeled off OEM one. For some reason, OEM red cover coating won’t last as much as the black one and I always notice poor coating condition on the OEM red valve covers…..

Looks like some sort of paper was inserted to all of the threaded holes…. Time consuming but all holes must be checked and tested as you don’t want to crack the valve cover or end up not being able to torque the bolt.

Not sure what was used but so many left over of shot blast residue or something was trapped at the thread of oil filler cap.




Same story at the back of the valve cover. Powder like material everywhere.

Not ideal to have coating inside the valve cover gasket channel. Had to be removed.




Also, I noticed that there were different finish/method used between the two valve covers. 1st photo shows pretty normal condition whereas the 2nd one shows some sort of coating left everywhere inside.
Not sure about it so cleaned as much as possible.