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Posted by: jeffdon Jun 16 2016, 09:36 PM

Well, dammit, my throttle cable snapped. Luckily, in a buddies driveway. Driving his wheels now, going to hit EASY when they open, and hopefully, have it back on the road quick.

Yeah, I know, where was your spare cable? And your spare clutch cable?

But it got me to thinking, could you make a throttle cable out of kevlar? It would not have the electrolysis issues a steel cable has. Anyone know of a source?

Posted by: Mikey914 Jun 16 2016, 10:07 PM

Actually
Working on an upgraded cable now. Started small with the heater cables, doing drawings to make the other parts now.

Posted by: falcor75 Jun 16 2016, 10:30 PM

Upgraded correct clutch, throttle and speedo cables would be awsome... (rubber grommets facing the right direction and such)

Posted by: brant Jun 16 2016, 10:45 PM

There are some very poor throttle cable out there.
Don't buy any of the internet cables
I don't trust the pelican ones at all.
I bought a factory cable after
3 cable failures over both cars in 3 years
Some were old stock from about 2 yrs ago
But not all

One had 40 minutes of use before the throttle stuck open on track!
Very risky and potentially very expensive...

Posted by: Mikey914 Jun 17 2016, 01:18 AM

It's pretty sad again, you really wonder where some of these are being made, as well as the quality of the materials. Lots of room fro improvement. Yes you may pay $10 more for a cable, but I can use much better materials, and you will be able to tell the difference.

Posted by: brant Jun 17 2016, 05:42 AM

I'm n when you get to them

I unfortunately had 4 new crap cables in stock and used 3 of them up...

Posted by: green914 Jun 17 2016, 06:55 AM

look out for those cheap/inexpensive cables - got one from the local auto parts store, it didn't last a week before it started binding up.

Posted by: Root_Werks Jun 17 2016, 10:40 AM

Throttle cable broke while my kid and I were out on a Sunday drive years back. He took the drivers seat and I leaned over the targa bar to operate the throttle. I'd accelerate and say "Shift!" letting off the throttle, he'd shift and call "Go!"

Amazingly, we made a good team and never killed the 914 once! Pretty smooth actually.

Posted by: Mike D. Jun 17 2016, 11:02 AM

I had one where the cable pulled out of the end. I was alone but close to a friends house. I pulled off the crank case vac hose and got a high idle and drove it that way for a couple of miles to his house.

Posted by: jeffdon Jun 17 2016, 03:21 PM

QUOTE(Mike D. @ Jun 17 2016, 10:02 AM)