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Friday, January 10, 2014

Throttle Cable Bracket Mockup

Made a little progress tonight on a throttle cable bracket.

The stock F-body bracket doesn't fit the FAST 102 intake I've got, and neither does the Lokar LS1 bracket. Both have the cable entrance positioned basically where the intake port for cylinder #2 is. In addition to this, the cable position is too far inboard to be in line with the cam on the throttle body. So the whole thing needed to move up and out relative to the intake.

This is the offending subject. The post is secured with a countersunk screw from the backside, which I removed. The flat bracket portion is what I'll be replacing.

I started by taking a piece of copper wire and wrapping it around the post of the bracket, bending it up until I got it positioned where it needed to be.

Then took a tape outline of the mounting surface of the intake and transferred it to cardboard (still roughly shaped at this point).

Checking clearances - tight around whatever the fuck that tube is on the throttle body, as well as the MAP sensor on the intake.

Needs to come out from intake mounting surface by about about .750" to line up with throttle body cam.

Finished-ish shape with hole locations marked. Plan is to make it out of aluminum and powder coat it to blend in with the intake manifold. The post will be left bare aluminum (I think).