Throttle Cable

The old mustang has a mechanically linked throttle pedal to the carburator. By adding a throttle body, I needed to change to a throttle cable. I heard there were two methods to do this. The first entailed using a 1970 mustang pedal and somehow attaching it to a cable. The other way was to use an 88-93 pedal and cable. I used the latter method. Unknown to me, the latter is not the easier method, of course.

I first had to drill three holes, two for the mounting bolts and one for the cable bracket on the firewall. Wasn't easy. Anyway, I soon realized that I needed to space out the throttle pedal at least an inch toward the driver (since the floor is at a different angle than a late model mustang). That required rigging, or fabricating (as is the latest nomenclature) a spacer for the two mounting bolts.

After that was finished, I tried to mount the cable unto the throttle body. Didn't happen. Turns out that by eliminating the EGR spacer earlier, I now have caused a spacing problem between the throttle cable mounting bracket and the heater hoses. To fix that, I simply cut a large chunck off the mounting bracket, and tada! fit like a glove.