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

So, the engine is out.










Very clean front and rear bank cyl head.
Almost no leakage from the valve cover gasket.
Just a small amount of seepage behind the cover plate.










Valve covers were also very clean but they were covered in the
corrosion protection oil.
It looked as if they were painted in the past and as I don’t think I can remove
all of the corrosion protection oil without stripping off the existing paint,
I won’t be applying the dash of black paint.

Will be going to leave them as they are.








Some oil seepage from the rear bank exh cam cap but not too bad.










This is probably the first engine that I saw with all of the bolts being used on
TB covers and without missing the rubber seal at
the TB adjuster bolt on UK based NSX.