Try to make a long story short...
1. I sold the Trickflow R intake and got a Edelbrock Victor 5.8. Had a friend come by last sunday to help me throw it on and got almost done and realized that I ordered the wrong set of gaskets that go between the upper/lower intake. Short trip to summitracing.com and I got the correct gasket set.
2. I got the gasket yesterday and was putting it on this morning and the throttle cable linkage kept binding up against the fuel rail no matter how I mounted the throttle cable bracket. Turns out that even though I did not need a spacer w/ the TFSR I do with the Victor 5.8. Back to summitracing.com to order the throttle body spacer.
3. During the time of trying to figure out the TB cable issue I was inside the car and pressed down on the throttle to see if it was going to bind or not w/ the last way I mounted it (before I discovered I needed a spacer) and when I pressed down the TB cable popped off the gas pedal when it binded against the fuel rail. When I was attempting to put it back on the pedal the small plastic piece that the cable goes through then snaps on top of the pedal fell out of my hand and was either lost somewhere up inside the dash or fell through one of the openings that leads into the whole under dash console area.
I cant find that small plastic attachment anywhere, Ford did not have it and neither did NAPA. I have a feeling it comes as part of the throttle cable. Either way I don't want to spend $150 for a new OEM cable just to get that small plastic piece. I'm at a loss of what I can do. I called MPS salvage and they never got back to me. I checked a local junk yard that had two 3.8's from 94-96 but it was not the same set up. Its frustrating b/c the car has been down a lot already this year and I have until the 14th of aug to get this fixed and the new clutch installed and 500 miles put on it so I can do a local event at the track that I do every year but its not looking good now. Sorry this was kinda long but thanks for reading and if you have any suggestions of where I can find that plastic piece that snaps on top of the gas pedal let me know. Thank you.
1. I sold the Trickflow R intake and got a Edelbrock Victor 5.8. Had a friend come by last sunday to help me throw it on and got almost done and realized that I ordered the wrong set of gaskets that go between the upper/lower intake. Short trip to summitracing.com and I got the correct gasket set.
2. I got the gasket yesterday and was putting it on this morning and the throttle cable linkage kept binding up against the fuel rail no matter how I mounted the throttle cable bracket. Turns out that even though I did not need a spacer w/ the TFSR I do with the Victor 5.8. Back to summitracing.com to order the throttle body spacer.
3. During the time of trying to figure out the TB cable issue I was inside the car and pressed down on the throttle to see if it was going to bind or not w/ the last way I mounted it (before I discovered I needed a spacer) and when I pressed down the TB cable popped off the gas pedal when it binded against the fuel rail. When I was attempting to put it back on the pedal the small plastic piece that the cable goes through then snaps on top of the pedal fell out of my hand and was either lost somewhere up inside the dash or fell through one of the openings that leads into the whole under dash console area.
I cant find that small plastic attachment anywhere, Ford did not have it and neither did NAPA. I have a feeling it comes as part of the throttle cable. Either way I don't want to spend $150 for a new OEM cable just to get that small plastic piece. I'm at a loss of what I can do. I called MPS salvage and they never got back to me. I checked a local junk yard that had two 3.8's from 94-96 but it was not the same set up. Its frustrating b/c the car has been down a lot already this year and I have until the 14th of aug to get this fixed and the new clutch installed and 500 miles put on it so I can do a local event at the track that I do every year but its not looking good now. Sorry this was kinda long but thanks for reading and if you have any suggestions of where I can find that plastic piece that snaps on top of the gas pedal let me know. Thank you.