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

This is part of the oil cooler that came off when I touched it.
Not sure you can get the feeling but it’s thick.

There was only 1 oil cooler available among Europe, US and Japan and fortunately, I managed to get hold of it through my friend in US.
Honda Japan told me that the next batch won't be available until the end of this month....

The package is stuck in Stansted since Tuesday so not sure what’s FedEx is doing but I hope it’s not like damaged package, etc…..













Despite the super dirty external appearance of the eng/gbox assy, the internal engine parts looked not too bad.
There are several places with build-up of thick debris but generally, far better than some of the engines that I dealt with in the past.

This shows that the engine was used with regular oil change but then out of action for quite some time allowing inconsistent dark brown marking inside the engine.








The blowby gas.
Yes, it’s thick sticky debris but I’ll try removing them.