Thread: Mild vibration at speed

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Originally Posted by DennyW

That one strand non-deflected throttle cable, looks like the same one I made up for my Nephew on his project. A nice piece of hot roll, and little heat, bend a 90º, and thread the end, and Wa-La. A Cable is born. I polished it, and clear coated it.

I'm glad to see that I'm not the last rod builder who prefers throttle rods instead of cable.

Granted, throttle cables can make life easy and in some cases are a necessity, but I see way more problems with them than with throttle rods.

Aside from a little work - threading, cutting to size, buffing etc. - making a throttle rod is no big deal.
I use 1/4" stainless rod and quality Heims from a bearing house.

Heims are about $5.00 - $7.00 each nowadays.
Including the stainless rod there's about $12.00 in the one shown above and nowadays it can still be done for less than $15.

Fwiw, the little firewall gizmo shown where the throttle rod goes through the firewall is a fume/heat sealing device that has a Teflon floater that moves as the throttle rod rises and falls as it operates.
Takes into account transverse torque movements as well.
Shown in the two pics of my 31 below.