Gas pedal question
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Gas pedal question
In my seemingly never ending quest to fix everything that's wrong with my '69 I discovered that someone in their infinite wisdom replaced the original gas pedal assembly with one from some other car but I have no idea what kind of car it came from. It appears that my car had the early style (68-mid '69) gas pedal assembly because the trans kickdown switch and bracket is for the early style pedal assembly. The gas pedal that the previous owner installed doesn't engage the kickdown switch which comes as no surprise. I'm having a hard time finding the early style gas pedal assembly for a decent price. I really don't want to spend 100 bucks or more for it (I can't find one for a reasonable price) so my question is will a later model gas pedal assembly and kickdown switch bracket bolt in place of the early style assembly? By the way, if anybody that reads this thread happens to have an early style gas pedal assembly for a decent price I'd be interested in it. I don't need the early style kickdown switch bracket or kickdown switch, I already have that.
Last edited by TheGreek!; Feb 9, 2018 at 09:06 AM.
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I may have what you need. Just the opposite here. Working on a 72 and it had the early style pedal in it. Let me take a look. Is this what you are looking for
Last edited by Gordonm; Feb 9, 2018 at 09:29 AM.
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That looks like what I need. PM me with a price and we'll go from there. By the way, there's a couple of the later model gas pedal assemblies that you need for sale on eBay right now for 20 bucks each. I'd send you the links to them but I can't do it from my phone, I'm at work right now and won't have access to my computer until later on today. They should be easy to find on eBay, just do a search for c3 Corvette gas pedal assembly and you should find them.
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Is the later assembly a drop in replacement for the early assembly? Do the mounting holes from the later assembly line up with the holes for the early assembly?
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I think the mounting holes do line up. Since the one I sent you was in the 72 I ma working on and the 77 pedal I ma using fits the 72 I would assume the holes are similar. I have always found the the stock cable and brackets did not allow enough travel. It was not the pedal limiting the travel it was the cable and bracket. I have used, many times the Lokar system. It is not cheap but reliably gives me full throttle all the time I want it. The stock ones just never were up to the task. I have checked many stock Qjet systems and they are not giving full throttle. Any time mods have been done or different carbs or throttle bodies have been used the yare never giving me full throttle.
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