Are most of you mounting these on the inside of you rod? I think they originally came on the outside of the fire-wall.... Pics would be great for visual learners like me...... Guys, I'm stoked!!! All I have to do is get my gas pedal in AND jerry rig some wiring........then I'll be ready to move it under it's own power!~!!!!!!! Yes! Oh, and make the lake style headers but who needs those!
This is a '38 arm and spring, with a '34 s**** (out of the picture) and yep -- it's flipped around and mounted on the inside of the firewall. It works good.
Half in and half out they were. Today's re-pro's are all inside. Most guys use a cable, but if you prefer solid rod - as I do - you can use that and make or adapt a heat shield. Generally we didn't use the standard Shoebox throttle pedal/mechanism on engine swaps back in the day because it impinged on the bell housing or ****ter shield of the OHV engines. A couple that worked well were 59 Ford - 57 & 58 are probably similar. Nice part about these is, hole saw a hole in the firewall at the drivers side bend/recess, a couple of 1/4" bolt holes and you had a suspended throttle pedal half in and half out with the 59 heat seal popping right in. The 59 throttle had a nice angle on the engine compt side and would pull up as it went back which had the nice effect of slowing down throttle travel during the first part of throttle opening. Which tends to civilize these stick shift cars at driving through the parking lot speeds . . . which are slow and nothing like you see the Soccer Moms doing noadays . . . not that they ever ran over me. Came close a couple of times though. Another was the 60's era Mustangs. They had a slightly scaled down throttle pedal/mechanism similar to the 59's. Gennie Shifter makes a pretty good stainless throttle pedal. 44,000 miles on the one in my 32 and it's as tight as it ever was. A couple of pics attached.
I threw together a s**** pedal for my T to be only temporary, it worked well enough that it's still there almost a year later... one of these days I'll put something a little more serious in there but it does work just fine..
Ipicked one up at a swap meet a couple weeks ago for $5. It's going on the outside of the firewall where it can be seen . Flatman
what do you have it mounted to.....is that to clear your distributor..... that's exactly what I"m shooting for....i have about 6 of those to work with...
C9 and 60's Style When I did a search before posting this. I found the one you made, C9 (pics still there). I don't think Style's had any pics, now. I'm running Stromburgs so mine needs to go towards the p***enger side. I can see from the pic above how big the hole is for the rod to go through the fire-wall. I didn't want to play hit-n-miss drilling the wrong sized holes in my new fire-wall. I'm not affluent in body work....yet. Also, my stock style A fire-wall has a recess that is dimpled into the car. I reallly didn't want to just used washer to space the unlevel s**** pedal. But, for now I think it'll have to work.... Thanks all!!! Any other pics would be great too....
If you're looking at the aluminum mounting plate the 32's Gennie s**** sits on, that's just a trim piece for the carpet. It helps in getting the throttle pedal mechanism back away from the firewall so the Heim doesn't have to sit in the opening. I wanted the upper arm vertical so the vertical travel of the horizontal throttle rod was limited. Moving the throttle pedal mechanism back 1/4" didn't create any ergonomic type problems. The 31's round s**** looks like it will work ok. It's retained onto the arm with a single 10-32 FH stainless bolt. That so I can go to a s**** design if needed. The pivot piece that bolts to the firewall on the 31's throttle pedal gets a bit rounded on the edges later on so as to get away from the industrial look. A pic of the 31 pedal for reference. The other two pics are the floating Teflon/aluminum throttle rod heat seals I made. Note that the Teflon seal floats within the aluminum piece and the throttle rod slides on the Teflon. First pic shows the throttle rod at idle, 2nd pic shows it at full throttle. (There is room to adjust the aluminum retainer piece up, down, left & right.) No friction problems - which could lead to a stuck throttle - and the heat stays out of the ****pit with these. Before they went in, the small holes (throttle rod and hood release rod) in the 32's firewall leaked heat like nobody's business. The seals shown are in my 31. The seals in the 32 have gone over 30,000 miles and show virtually no wear. No problems ever....
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