broke accelerator pedal

[ericinboca]

2004 986S dedicated track car.

Last weekend at Road Atlanta, after a heel-toe rev match down shift, the little metal "dogbone" that connects the cable to the pedal popped out. When I took a close look, I found the base of the pedal tongue was torn allowing some lateral movement. I think the sideways movement allowed by the tear in the base of the tongue exceeded the movement the dogbone is supposed to have.

Further, I think the tearing was caused by all the heel-toe shifting. Before I replace the whole assembly or just the pedal (looks like there is a part number for just the pedal but haven't researched it yet) is there a better aftermarket pedal that will not "tear"? Or are all these aftermarket pedals just "covers" over the factory plastic?

Here you can see were it came apart.

[smartrepair]

2004 986S dedicated track car.

Last weekend at Road Atlanta, after a heel-toe rev match down shift, the little metal "dogbone" that connects the cable to the pedal popped out. When I took a close look, I found the base of the pedal tongue was torn allowing some lateral movement. I think the sideways movement allowed by the tear in the base of the tongue exceeded the movement the dogbone is supposed to have.

Further, I think the tearing was caused by all the heel-toe shifting. Before I replace the whole assembly or just the pedal (looks like there is a part number for just the pedal but haven't researched it yet) is there a better aftermarket pedal that will not "tear"? Or are all these aftermarket pedals just "covers" over the factory plastic?

Here you can see were it came apart.

As far as I know the stealership sells only the whole pedal assembly (very expensive, of course). The aftermarket covers are designed to be fixed to the original pedal.

I think I have one used pedal assemply under other junk. If you are interested, let me know.

Regards,

Kare

[ericinboca]

Thanks Kare. I may yet take you up on your offer to look through your "junk."

But for now, I am going to try my homemade upgrade on this. I fear putting the same design back in will have the same results, so I made a replacement.

I took a piece of 3/16 x 2 mild steel and milled it to match the plastic "tongue". Then simply cut a piece of ERW tube. I will weld the tube to the new tongue.

[smartrepair]

Thanks Kare. I may yet take you up on your offer to look through your "junk."

But for now, I am going to try my homemade upgrade on this. I fear putting the same design back in will have the same results, so I made a replacement.

I took a piece of 3/16 x 2 mild steel and milled it to match the plastic "tongue". Then simply cut a piece of ERW tube. I will weld the tube to the new tongue.

Looks like a good, more solid solutions, than the original one! Hopefully it works, should be, as it doesn´t look like such a complicated matter...

Sometimes I really don´t understand the engineers with their cost saving programs: trying to save 10 (or less) cents, they make a piece from plastics, which will broke sooner or later.Anyhow they charge premium prices for the cars by tens of thousands...

regards,

Kare