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

As reported earlier, this NSX arrived here with some of the vacuum tubes blocked. I think the owner was using aftermarket parts and disabled some of the OEM features.

Not sure this is the correct way of achieving it but I’m going to leave them as they were. Also, I don’t think the bracket holding the solenoid is the correct one.
I’ll try to use tyrap or something to hold it in place as the rubber holder just drops off under vibration.




Needs bit of cleaning at the positive battery terminal.
No way re-using this GND cable so going to replace it.




With the Type-R bar in the way, decided to remove the spare wheel holder plate to gain extra space while replacing the coolant hoses.




So much better with the new GND cable and as mentioned many times, please do not over-tighten it against the battery post. The post is made from soft metal so if you tighten the terminal too far, it will simply chew into the post and never gets the snag fit. When installed properly, you should see some gap left at the fixing bolt/nut at the terminal.






Not sure about the design of this compliance pivot lock.
I had to trim some of the aluminium material off in order to insert the clamp. Looking at the design, it’s holding the pivot with point/touch contact and not by wide surface contact.
It probably does the job but if I were the designer, I would have replaced the original T-piece and hold the pivot at much wider area indicated between the two fingers (2nd photo).
My concern is the noise under load and also the torque loss over the time at the shorter bolt (3rd photo). Already requested the owner to check the torque regularly.