Once the throttle pedal and pivot where fitted, we moved onto fitting the throttle linkage to the carburettor. This is something we have been thinking about for a few weeks. We had the option to get the bits from Gerry but Mark wanted to design and make our own system. We had pictures of Andy Gordon’s Cobra at Silverstone, so once again we used his car as the inspiration as we thought the solution he found was quite a neat one.
Mark spoke to his engineering department at work, asking them if they could manufacture the blades for the rod linkage along with some stainless steel strips, that we could use to make a bracket to mount to the inlet manifold. We have made a temporary bracket for now, that we plan to replace with a better one later. We have marked up for the new bracket that we hope to get our uncle Dave to wield for us.
We fitted the rose joint on the top of the footwell first. we then slid the 10mm rod into it. We then put another rose joint on the other end which we lined up and then marked the position where it would fix to our temporary bracket mounted to the manifold. We then drilled the hole and fitted the rose joint onto the bracket before fitting a blades to each end of the transverse rod.
We linked the blade to the carb using 2 female rose joints and 8mm rod. We had to tap a thread to both ends and connected the other end to the pedal in exactly the same way using a shorter 8mm rod.
It took a little time adjusting the lengths of the rods to get the travel of the pedal correct but it works really well. We have just got the final bracket to make and fit now to finish this off.