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

So, all four wheels back on the car and adjusted the tyre pressure.

As the garage was warm and it looks like it is going to be cooler during
the week, decided to set it to the OEM 40/33psi pressure setting.







And when I thought I was ready to go out for the test driving session,
I stripped off one of the bolt holding the strut tower bar at the engine bay.


All four bolts were very rusty and the digital torque wrench didn’t even beep so
it was not even close to the specified torque.

However, I felt bit strange so tried to loosen it and that’s when it seared off.


Luckily, I didn’t need to drill out the remaining bolt as the bracket can be
removed by removing the two nuts at the damper top hat and
I can just unscrew the damaged bolt from behind.


As I don’t have any spare bolt, took it off from my NSX.

The one on the left was from my NSX and the original one on the right.
So much better than the other three bolts.


May be best to replace remaining three bolts to the new one in the future.


Bounced the chassis several times to settle the damper,
loosen and re-torqued all three nuts at the damper top hat and
then installed the strut tower bar.



By the time I was ready for the test driving session,
the traffic was getting busy so decided to carry it out tomorrow.











In the mean time, briefly dressed the engine bay.


I’ll finish the dressing after washing the car.


Almost done.


Kaz