FE428, cable throttle linkage, brackets springs etc

[Luke427]

Hi Kevin,
I have installed weber carbs on old Italian and English cars (and some of them where RHD, by the way). Cables were always a pain in the butt. We would systematically install a rod across the firewall when carburetor linkage was on the wrong side - you could consider this.

Now just asking: why do you keep the turkey pan? Patrick - I would keep the lower plate, which seems convenient, but I don't believe the pan itself does anything but restrict airflow to the intake. Unless you have a gigantic hood scoop?
On my Cobra, before it received the 8 barrel intake a few weeks back, I had gotten rid of the turkey pan and put a 3" tall, 45 deg aluminum plate in front of the crossmember to push fresh air inside the engine compartment as suggested by a guy on cobra talk. Outcome was obviously positive, especially above 4000 rpm in 3rd and 4th gears.

[KevinW]

Thanks Luke.
Valid pints on the intake. I may well fit a rubber trim round the turkey pan perimeter so that it seals on the hood - I have seen a few cars do this to maintain the cold air feed.

Actually I wanted the turkey pan for looks as much as anything - they are a rarity item in the UK. My engine builder was pretty unhappy with the S&H filter i added, telling me i'd loose horsepower. But for me, anything above 400hp and similar torque is way more than anything i ever drove in my life, so it'll keep me happy for a good few years. And I wanted the engine bay to look like an original as much as possible.

Biggest problems for the linkage are the height of the footboxes (several inches higher than an original, and interfacing to the gas pedal. Original cars had a nice pendulum fixing on top of the footbox. Thats not possible for me without a lot of retrofitting and fettling. So, in the interests of actually getting the car on the road sometime soon, its a compromise I'll have to make.

[patrickt]

Last year I replaced the restrictive, but attractive, air cleaner with the K&H X-Treme filter that significantly enhanced airflow. That thread is deep in here: OK Chas, See If You Can Tell What's New... The increase in airflow was so dramatic that I had to modify the spring for my vacuum secondaries to open properly. That was done on a subsequent thread.

[DanEC]

Originally Posted by KevinW

Biggest problems for the linkage are the height of the footboxes (several inches higher than an original, and interfacing to the gas pedal. Original cars had a nice pendulum fixing on top of the footbox. Thats not possible for me without a lot of retrofitting and fettling. So, in the interests of actually getting the car on the road sometime soon, its a compromise I'll have to make.

I think you are describing the 289 cars throttle linkage. The 427 cars have a little different system that comes off of the side of the foot box, up front. Our ERAs are a little different than original cars I'm sure, but similar.

I don't have the best picture of it but if you look at the side of the black metal bent plate on the side of the left foot box, you can see the shaft and bellcrank that comes out there.