While the car was sitting in storage over the winter, I added a 160 thermostat, a 3-inch chrome up pipe, one new hood strut, and a billet oil fill tube with a breather. Well the weather got warm enough to bring it out of storage on Saturday. I took it into town to get an alarm installed on it. Once I left there I decided to get into some boost. I put the throttle down but it felt like I wasn't getting the pedal to go down all the way. So I did what any normal guy (one who doesn't use his brain first) would do. I used force to get the gas pedal down to the floorboard. Well the pedal went to the floor and stayed there! No matter how much I kicked at the pedal, it wasn't coming back up! I was doing 40 mph in a 45 mph zone when I decided to do this too, not from a dead stop. I didn't look down at the speedo, but I was coming up on a car REAL FAST!
I threw it in neutral and shut the ignition off. When I came to a stop and popped the hood open, I realized that when I installed the new t-bar clamps on my new up pipe I put one of them in the way of the throttle cable. Lucky I didn't learn my lesson in a really hard way, I escaped with only stained boxers as the only damage.
I threw it in neutral and shut the ignition off. When I came to a stop and popped the hood open, I realized that when I installed the new t-bar clamps on my new up pipe I put one of them in the way of the throttle cable. Lucky I didn't learn my lesson in a really hard way, I escaped with only stained boxers as the only damage.
