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wheezy - 14/4/06 at 03:37 PM

Well took the car out for its first drive now that I have a exhaust fitted (many thanks Martin).
You can just feel the engine wanting to go.
No problems moving of from a standstill the hyd clutch works like a dream. The only problem was the accelerator pedal, you just have to touch it and the engine revs like mad.
I may have to increase the pedal travel but never having driven a BEC before i dont know how much travel there should be.
How much pedal travel from idle to fully open do people have?

stevec - 14/4/06 at 03:47 PM

What a lovely looking car, Nice colours.

My trotter pedal is very light and has no feel, I am going to increase the sping load at the pedal end somehow.But travell is fairly like any car I would say.

owelly - 14/4/06 at 03:53 PM

Try driving in your socks! seriously!

Russ-Turner - 14/4/06 at 03:56 PM

quote:
Originally posted by stevec
What a lovely looking car, Nice colours.


I was just about to say that myself.

wheezy - 14/4/06 at 04:11 PM

quote:
Originally posted by chris mason
thought you was going to wait till the weekend

nice car looks even better in the flesh

Chris


Once I fitted the seats temptation got the better of me

Thanks for the nice comments it makes months of work all worth while.

shortie - 14/4/06 at 06:34 PM

Not sure what engine you have but on the blade the bike trhottle connection at the carb end has a return cable. Basically I just replaced this with a spring so that there is more feel as when you press the acc pedal you are pulling against the spring .

Hope that makes sense!!

Rich.

wheezy - 14/4/06 at 06:50 PM

I have a ZX12 fitted and on the bike it has a similar return cable.
I dont have any problem with the feel of the accelerator just the overall travel of the pedal.
From idle to fully open the pedal only moves just over 40mm.

shortie - 14/4/06 at 06:55 PM

Probably just need to get used to it then, I'm sure you'll be fine.

BTW, car looks ace, love the colour!

Rich.

wheezy - 14/4/06 at 07:00 PM

Cheers
You cant realy go wrong with the gulf colours on this shape of car.

Dave

wheezy - 15/4/06 at 08:27 AM

So i take it that 40mm pedal movement is about the same as everyone else?

JoelP - 15/4/06 at 09:35 AM

i have more like 80mm, but thats with a long top mounted pedal.

wheezy - 15/4/06 at 04:54 PM

With the pedal movement I have at the moment I get about 3000 rpm with only 10mm of travel which feels like an on/off switch. I didnt want to drill more holes in the bulkhead only to find that I need to re- educate my right foot

russbost - 16/4/06 at 10:03 PM

I have about 80mm+ & progression is sensible, I can drive in steel toecap workboots no problem!! I have disconnected return cable & use return spring instead

wheezy - 18/4/06 at 08:54 AM

Going by everyones replies I have taken the plunge and moved the cable closer to the pedal bearing. I now have about 60-70mm travel and the throttle response is more controlled. I just need to connect an additional return spring before I take it out on another test drive.

TimC - 18/4/06 at 09:16 AM

Wow! Who did your paint? Must be worth a plug....

Fred W B - 18/4/06 at 11:25 AM

I'd agree on the excellent paint scheme. It looks a thousand times better than the multicolour scheme on the show car in your archive.

Are you still going to fit a rollbar?

Cheers

Fred WB

wheezy - 18/4/06 at 01:12 PM

It was the bodywork and the chassis from the show car that I bought. The multi-colour paint scheme was removed after the show.
I have just fitted the role bar which Martin at MK Engineering made when he was manufacturing the exhaust.
I will post some more pictures in the next few days.

Dave