Car is hard to shift when up to temp

[General karthief]

Classic case of 'keep fixing it till it breaks'. If there was nothing wrong with the ford racing part?
Just a thought, my factory installed clutch cable has over 150k on it, just say'n

 

[Foxbodyguy49]

Yeah well my buddy’s clutch cable snapped on him so it got me thinking hey mines pretty old maybe I should just change it for piece of mind. Go figure sometimes best left alone

 

[General karthief]

I should add, I have long tube headers as well.

 

[90sickfox]

I've been through a few Autozone clutch cables on customers cars and my own. They tend to actually pull the sheath from around the cable through the plastic part that goes through the firewall. If someone made aluminum ends for our cables it would solve that issue. I don't know how these companies have gotten away with this for over 20yrs....just like selling people the wrong tensioner puller on the tensioner. It's supposed to have a pulley with shoulders so it won't throw the belt at higher rpms or certain conditions.

The way I can instantly tell a good cable from a cheap one is by the color of the plastic ends. If they're black its cheap... if its cream colored its good to go ( generally ).

 

[90sickfox]

This is a good cable

 

[Monkeybutt2000]

This is a good cable

I have never seen that cable.

 

[Foxbodyguy49]

So just a update, I got the ford racing cable and installed it today and first off the pedal feel is 10x lighter then the brand new cable I had in it. And the problem of being hard to shift after the car warms up seems to have vanished now. So I guess there’s some truth in you get what you pay for. Now I just have to add some heat wrap to the headers. I also have the heat shrouding sleeve on the cable as well. Thanks for the suggestions