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Offline FEDNV

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Push throttle
« on: December 28, 2014, 06:02:50 AM »
I have space issues around my throttle pedal and have had a hokey bell crank setup with the normal pull action on the cable.  I looked in the rule book but did not find anything specifying the throttle had to be a pull action.  Only thing I found for sure is you do have to have a throttle return spring.  You have to run a push/pull morse style cable anyways so I was going to run it from the front and push the throttle.  Did I miss something in the rules?  Anyone ever do this for drag racing?  Found some pics of this done on boats.
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Re: Push throttle
« Reply #1 on: December 28, 2014, 06:22:11 AM »
It's a push pull cable so why not ?
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Re: Push throttle
« Reply #2 on: December 28, 2014, 11:21:09 AM »
I do not have pics, but both of my cars have been push set ups.
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Re: Push throttle
« Reply #3 on: December 28, 2014, 12:30:23 PM »
I ended up fabbing up this today.  Should work fine.



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Re: Push throttle
« Reply #4 on: December 28, 2014, 01:02:47 PM »
I never liked a push cable seems to push a little hard then cam over and get easier I looped my morse cable behind the rearend housing  and came up behind the peddle made a tab off the pedal and made it a pull.
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Re: Push throttle
« Reply #5 on: December 28, 2014, 01:32:50 PM »
Turn the carb around so that the linkage is on the right hand side.
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Offline fuel749

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Re: Push throttle
« Reply #6 on: December 29, 2014, 06:24:49 AM »
Quote from: dreracecar on December 28, 2014, 01:32:50 PM
Turn the carb around so that the linkage is on the right hand side.

This is what I do. If your throttle pedal is mounted up off the floor a bit, a lever off the bottom portion of the pedal makes a nice clean pull throttle. If not, do what Ricci32 suggested and loop the cable around the housing and mount it to the top of the pedal.
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Offline Scott Krieger

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Re: Push throttle
« Reply #7 on: December 30, 2014, 08:24:04 AM »
That's how we run ours, like you have mocked up. But you'll need a brace under the cable mount' down to the head or manifold to stop from flexing down when you hit the throttle.
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Re: Push throttle
« Reply #8 on: December 30, 2014, 09:47:49 AM »
A throttle stop under the pedal is an excellent idea as well.
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Re: Push throttle
« Reply #9 on: December 30, 2014, 03:16:09 PM »
Thanks for all the reply's, going to stick with my setup I have but maybe redo my bracket with a thicker piece of aluminum so it doesn't flex like mentioned.  I will definitely be doing a new and improved throttle stop for the pedal itself.  I never realized how hard I was pushing on the throttle pedal with the transbrake engaged at the start until I broke my current throttle stop setup.  Adrenaline is awesome!!!
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