No offense to those of you running a cable, it's just not my cup of tea. So I've been kicking around the idea of a bell crank linkage system.
Here's the basic idea, orange square is the carb, red "L" is the bell crank, black lines are the links, blue circle is bell crank rotation path. I decided to put the fulcrum point where the pedal arm and throttle intersect at a right angle.


I was lucky enough to find this bracket at work.


Marked for trimming.


All trimmed up, and bearing (also from work) pressed in.


I welded a nut into a 3/8 pipe.


All put together.


Heim joints came from ebay. I have a third for the carb end of the link. I plan on putting the threaded rod through the hole in the pedal arm, and securing it with washers and jam nuts with a thick rubber grommet.
Now I need to design a bracket to mount it.

 

What a fascinating idea. How do you intend to connect it to the gas pedal?

 

wow that is way cool! goes to show it's not what you buy, it's what you build! looking forward to more updates on this!

 

DIY is good stuff!

 

So I see you do not have an "easy button" in your toy box either. Very creative! A bit along the lines of me stuffing an inline 6 in a FFR Roadster... I like it!

Jim

 

Got some work done on the bracket today. May add some gussets between the plate and pipe, and a support down to a lifter cover bolt.

 

Made a video of the linkage in action the other day:
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Very nice! The engine sounds great!!

 

job well done friend. looks sharp and sounds great!

 

Good grief...that's an awesome idea! I'm still trying to figure out how to convert my old bell crank throttle to an i6...