Author Topic: Throttle cable mount  (Read 5910 times)

knoxracing

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Throttle cable mount
« on: November 26, 2012, 03:28:57 pm »
A couple of years ago I had a mechanical failure that resulted in a stuck throttle. The car hit the wall wide open and destroyed the car, this was a $18,000 Legend Car, I was lucky to walk away. Since then I have welded a tab on the firewall framing, this tab has a hole in it and the throttle cable attaches to it instead of the firewall.  I convinced USLC to start doing the same, I have now seen multiple chassis from USLC with the throttle cable tab. DO YOURSELVES A HUGE FAVOR AND WELD THE TAB ON THE CHASSIS, ITS SO SIMPLE TO DO!  The cable attached to the firewall is dangerous, its a terrible design that has problem written all over it.
Dennis Knox
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Offline Winterracing

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Re: Throttle cable mount
« Reply #1 on: November 26, 2012, 08:05:56 pm »
can you post a picture of that?

Dan


knoxracing

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Re: Throttle cable mount
« Reply #2 on: November 26, 2012, 09:40:57 pm »
Yes, ASAP

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Re: Throttle cable mount
« Reply #3 on: November 29, 2012, 07:56:43 am »
Dennis, I have done the same thing to our chassis's years ago. I did it because I like how its more secure to the throttle cable instead of a flexible firewall. You are right, very simple to do, buy a peice of flat stock from Home depot. I believe I used 1" wide and cut it just big enough to make the throttle cable in the center. Welded it on there and then sent a drill right through the same hole. I would have to say if USLC is starting to do this its finally nice to see them making an update that makes sense and is cheap to do yourself.
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Re: Throttle cable mount
« Reply #4 on: November 29, 2012, 09:28:32 pm »
Dan,

It is similar to a brakeline tab.

Steve
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