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

Unfortunately, the oil cooler is about to leak.

One of the worst condition that I have ever seen.
Couldn't place the camera at the right angle but some of the top hat area were already rusted though like layers of rust and if I press on them, I could probably peel them off.

Some of the area is already about 1/3 thickness of the healthy section.


Unfortunately, it's on back order until the end of April.

I hope I can find one in US otherwise, it's going to be another long delay…..










Preparing for the eng/gbox removal….









Ah…. This doesn't look good…. The audio head unit.
It's caused by the leaked acid from the capacitor inside.













Fortunately, there was no burnt marking so there is still some hope but once again, IC305 OP AMP must be replaced.
Also, some of the components at the back side of the circuit board were contaminated.

I think I can recover the power and the signal output but until I finish the refurbishment, I won't be able to tell about the sound quality so fingers crossed.