Greg,
Thanks, I don't really need one myself but it is reassuring that they
are available in case I do another similar conversion. I am going to
switch my son's Mk2 over to cable linkage because his firewall holes are
worn out and it is cheaper and more effective to switch over. I have at
least 3 pedal assemblies from later cars which will snap right in. The
real problem is figuring out a proper assembly for attaching the cable
to the throttle interconnecting linkage on a 1147 engine.
Unfortunately, Triumph (to my knowledge) never had such a setup. So it
looks as if I will have to do a bit of engineering.
Regards,
Joe
Greg Ames wrote:
>
> Unfortunately, I can't offer much more info. The PO did the dual SU
> installation sometime in the early 80's. When I bought the car, he
> mentioned that "some piece of the throttle linkage" was hard to find and
> apparently hadn't been imported to the US, but I'm not sure of the exact
> part. He wound up sending money to friends in England, who went down to
> the local Triumph dealer to buy the parts he needed.
>
> Ken C told me he was also able to find the parts from John Graves at
> Spitfire Spares (http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~alecks/)
>
> At 17:54 10/9/99 -0700, Joe Curry wrote:
> >Interesting,
> >I think all the US cars with the dual SU's had the rod linkage. The UK
> >Spits must have continued using the SUs after the US ones went to the
> >ZS's.
>
> I believe this is correct. I think the UK got the dual SU's to the end of
> the 1300.
>
> >That would explain the difference in the linkage here and there.
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