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I have finally finished my pedal mods after six stages of development with the accelerator pedal and two with the brake pedal. It has given me 3”+ more legroom when my foot is on the accelerator and provides appropriate heel and toe relationship between the accelerator and brake pedals. I love it!
Here’s a photo looking from the side of the final arrangement.
Here’s what I did to the accelerator pedal:
Stage 1: adjust accelerator pedal to lowest position possible per factory adjustment procedure. (in shop manual and several EliseTalk write-ups).
Stage 2: replace accelerator cable bracket with custom bracket and adjust accelerator pedal so that it touches the floor at WOT. This provides a little more than half of the total benefit. See my write-up at http://www.elisetalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14002&highlight=pedal
Stage 3: remove the factory bolt-on accelerator pedal extension/cover and adjust accelerator pedal so that it touches the floor at WOT.
Stage 4: cut off the bottom of the accelerator pedal and adjust so that it touches the floor at WOT. (see photo)
Stage 5: fabricate and bolt on accelerator pedal cover that relocates accelerator cable and return spring to the right by 3.5” so that it no longer interferes with my shoe. This requires fabricating a new accelerator cable bracket that bolts to the underside of the dash. (see photos)
Stage 6. lower the accelerator cable attachment point on the pedal to provide greater leverage and reduced pedal travel, lowering the pedal position at idle. I made three possible attachment points when I made the pedal cover to facilitate experimentation with different amounts of leverage.
The following photo shows my shoe on the accelerator pedal in the normal driving position. You can see why I had to relocate the cable to the right to avoid interfering with my size 14 speed cats. You can also see the new accelerator cable bracket installed, and why it was required to align with the new position of the accelerator cable.
Note that at each stage, the cable needs to be adjusted for WOT at the engine compartment bracket and the pedal needs to be adjusted for idle position at the pedal box.
Brake pedal mods are noted in the following posting.
I'll be at the GGLC Laguna Seca track day on Feb. 20, in case any of you other tall people will be there and would like to check it out. That is, if I can solve my strange electrical problem by then...
Here’s a photo looking from the side of the final arrangement.
Here’s what I did to the accelerator pedal:
Stage 1: adjust accelerator pedal to lowest position possible per factory adjustment procedure. (in shop manual and several EliseTalk write-ups).
Stage 2: replace accelerator cable bracket with custom bracket and adjust accelerator pedal so that it touches the floor at WOT. This provides a little more than half of the total benefit. See my write-up at http://www.elisetalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14002&highlight=pedal
Stage 3: remove the factory bolt-on accelerator pedal extension/cover and adjust accelerator pedal so that it touches the floor at WOT.
Stage 4: cut off the bottom of the accelerator pedal and adjust so that it touches the floor at WOT. (see photo)
Stage 5: fabricate and bolt on accelerator pedal cover that relocates accelerator cable and return spring to the right by 3.5” so that it no longer interferes with my shoe. This requires fabricating a new accelerator cable bracket that bolts to the underside of the dash. (see photos)
Stage 6. lower the accelerator cable attachment point on the pedal to provide greater leverage and reduced pedal travel, lowering the pedal position at idle. I made three possible attachment points when I made the pedal cover to facilitate experimentation with different amounts of leverage.
The following photo shows my shoe on the accelerator pedal in the normal driving position. You can see why I had to relocate the cable to the right to avoid interfering with my size 14 speed cats. You can also see the new accelerator cable bracket installed, and why it was required to align with the new position of the accelerator cable.
Note that at each stage, the cable needs to be adjusted for WOT at the engine compartment bracket and the pedal needs to be adjusted for idle position at the pedal box.
Brake pedal mods are noted in the following posting.
I'll be at the GGLC Laguna Seca track day on Feb. 20, in case any of you other tall people will be there and would like to check it out. That is, if I can solve my strange electrical problem by then...
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