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Started installing pedal last night.

What I realized during disassembly was that I am sometimes my own worst enemy. Initial problem was poor angle of the throttle rod to the throttle lever, and I was baffled why one FiTech unit to another would fit so differently. Well... 67 throttle rods have bends in them to fix that geometry.

Fact: it makes it absolutely worse to install the rod upside down. Stupid. But I hated the rod anyways, so I moved on after some headbanging into a wall. So it turns out that I created the problem


The replacement pedal has a plastic bracket, but the factory pedal unit is a thick beefy piece with plastic bushings and a metal bracket. The replacement pedal is thinner in diameter than the factory, so it SWIMS in the factory metal bracket. The hole for the cable was already in the firewall, and fit perfect for the universal cable feed through.

The only problem is that the cable pull arm on the pedal shaft is not aligned well with the cable. I need to bend the cable arm to align more in front of the cable hole. It's off by an inch or more.

If someone wanted to do this on the cheap, they could weld a cable pull arm onto a factory pedal shaft, and just remove the throttle arm on the engine side.