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Old Jan 12, 2010 | 04:49 PM
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I have searched for hours and I could swear it was here somewhere that sombody installed their TV cable onto their DBW pedal assembly. It was pretty ingenious and I wanted to show someone else. Has anyone seen it?

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Old Jan 12, 2010 | 06:33 PM
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I've seen people talk about doing it, but have never seen any pics showing that it's ever been done. I'd like to see it too, figuring out the geometry would be the hardest part of it.
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Old Jan 12, 2010 | 06:40 PM
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I remember seeing it on a build thread I think, I don't think it was a thread specifically about that though...
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Old Jan 12, 2010 | 07:44 PM
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One of the tranny places sells a plate to adapt it over, I don't remeber which one

here is a place
http://www.tvmadeez.com/ls1_cam/
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Old Jan 12, 2010 | 08:07 PM
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Originally Posted by claytonisbob
I remember seeing it on a build thread I think, I don't think it was a thread specifically about that though...
Thats how I remember it also, part of a builod thread with pictures!! I can't believe I didn't post or bookmark it!
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Old Jan 12, 2010 | 08:10 PM
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Originally Posted by poconojoe
One of the tranny places sells a plate to adapt it over, I don't remeber which one

here is a place
http://www.tvmadeez.com/ls1_cam/
That is a bracket to make the TV cable work with a drive by cable TB. The one I am looking for, a guy modified a DBW pedal to accept the TV cable so he didn't have to convert to DBC. It was pretty slick. I hope someone remembers where it is/was.
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Old Jan 12, 2010 | 08:47 PM
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It's not this, is it?...

Originally Posted by frojoe

Throttle Body/DBW Pedal

I used the stock 78mm fly-by-wire electronic throttle body, and found an FBW pedal and TAC module out of an Avalanche to use with it. I made a Franken-pedal by cutting off the stock original pedal, and did a little cut-and-paste onto the upper part of the FBW pedal assembly to retain the 70’s-looking pedal pad on the electronic pedal’s position-sensing servo (see below for a pic of it). As is noted later on, I used a TH350 which I needed to find a place to mount the kickdown cable to. Since this pedal is the only point in the acceleration-control system that actually rotates, I had to rig up the kickdown cable to the electronic pedal. I did this by measuring the pedal sweep in degrees, and through some nifty trigonometry I found out where on the pedal and the pedal’s base to weld on some bracketry to mount the cable, in order for the cable to be pulled 1inch through the pedal’s 20degrees of rotation.

DISCLAIMER: this one of the first things I attempted welding, please don't judge me!!...







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Old Jan 13, 2010 | 06:21 AM
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thanks but that is for a 350 kick down cable (I found that one yesterday while searching). The one I am looking for has pictures just like that but is for a TVcable. Tthe guy goes into detail about having to figure the arc of the pedal to get the TV cable to operate correctly. It was`slick.
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nice...
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Old Jan 13, 2010 | 06:51 PM
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I know someone knows where this is. I searched another couple of hours today!
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Old Jan 13, 2010 | 10:18 PM
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I saw in another forum of a guy the put the pedal in the inner fender in a 57 chevy car, and at that point he some how made the dbw and kickdown cable work, I am gonna see If I can find it again...
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Old Jan 14, 2010 | 09:23 PM
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bump for fresh eyes
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Old Jan 14, 2010 | 10:08 PM
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You sure it wasn't my setup? I originally designed it for a TV cable because I didn't know that was a kickdown cable, I thought my th350 had a TV, and so when I originally described it to other people in other threads, I described it as a TV cable thingy. I thought of the whole exactly 1-inch-of-pull and adjustment for fine-tuning and everything...
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Old Jan 15, 2010 | 06:26 AM
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It was definately a TV cable. I'm so mad at myself for not bookmarking it!!

I have looked at your thread a couple of times searching Thanks for trying.
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Old Jan 15, 2010 | 07:24 AM
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Use frojoe's design (great job and cool idea) with this geometry:

http://www.tciauto.com/Products/Inst...ble_adjust.htm

More indepth reading
http://www.rowand.net/Shop/MetalShop...cket/index.htm
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Old Jan 21, 2010 | 08:01 AM
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Still looking I know I've seen it!
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