Raising the Accelerator pedal
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I want to raise the accelerator pedal on my '03 GT. Does anyone have any ideas or has done this before? Since I road race the car I want to be able to heel/toe the brake/accelerator but the accelerator is too low in comparison to the brake pedal height. I also noticed that theaccelerator pivots on an axlethat is welded to the firewall. Is there some way of relocating this so that I can move the pedal up a couple inches?Maybe pull the pin out of the arm and put some sort of extension from the original spot? There's about an inch of cable play but if I go any more than that the pedal will angle up too much so I also need to lenghten the cable an inch. John |
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you can use a piece of tubing and a hose clamp or something to take up some of the slack on the end of the cable
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John |
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Yes it does,I heel/toe with mine all the time
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ORIGINAL: Jennings Racing Yes it does,I heel/toe with mine all the time John |
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John,
Shouldn't you be more worried about getting your hood and windshield fixed first? [8D] |
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ORIGINAL: 1fstblckgt John, Shouldn't you be more worried about getting your hood and windshield fixed first? [8D] I did the plastic tube on the cable mod and it worked great! It sure is hard to squeeze into that little area to tighten the hose clamps though! John |
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This is a good cheap mod I did it years ago. |
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Its not a good idea mod, i did it also but after a week when i thought my car was 'faster' i looked at it from a more mechanical point of view and all its doing is giving more gas with less foot pressure, not making anything faster. it also stretches the cable and could possiblely rip it from the TB linkage if stretched to far (IE FLOORING IT REPEATEDLY...)
just thought id add my experience to the post, whether people listen or not. |
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well the actual spacer is 1.25" but most people will just use the 1" spacer so there will be a "slight" slack in the pedal but its good enough !
cause 1.25" would completely straighten it out but... like majinprodigy said... it could snap in theory if floored constantly. |
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I did it so that I can heel/toe the car when I'm racing it although it does feel nice to not have that slack. I went 1" on mine so I still have a slight bit of slack!
John |
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The cable can break even if you don't do the cable mod its the same ether way.You are only moving the pedal location,you still use the same amount of cable.What did you think your T/B would open 1" more by moving the pedal.
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I did test the breaking the cable idea. It won't break. I had a buddy hold the throttle blade all the way open, then I pushed the gas pedal to the floor and had my buddy let go of the blade. The blade closed about 2cm when he let it go. So even if you floor it you are not maxing out the length of the cable.
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