accelerator & clutch cable guide tubing Options

[shuie]

I thought I should ask before I button up my floors...

I have built new clutch cable and accelerator tubes in my center tunnel. I ran the tubes maybe 4-6" further towards the front of the car than the originals. It seemed like it might be easier to feed the cables that way. Is this okay, or should I cut them back to the normal length? Also, about how far should they poke through the rear firewall? Do they need to point straight to the rear of the car, or are they supposed to be angled? My original firewall was really mangled around the clutch and accelerator tube area, so I don't have a good reference for how the factory did it.

TIA

[shuie]

Thanks, I have test fit the clutch cable and accelerator cables. All is well there. They fit the McMaster-Carr tubing perfectly.

What Al mentions is kinda why I thought it might be okay to run the tubes a little further forward. It seems like it might decrease the chance of them getting caught on something, twisted, etc..

Here are some pics of what I'm talking about. Everything is just tacked in place, but it obviously gets harder to make adjustments once the front floor half is in place.

Here's the front of the tubing. Not a great pic, but you can see where the original guide tubes were attached to the inside of the tunnel about 4"-6" back from the ends of the new tubes. Should I bend these so they are parallel with the floorpan? Will it matter?

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Here's the view from the engine bay. I added a washer to reinforce the new firewall where the clutch tube failed before. Hopefully this will hold for the lifetime of the car. I deleted the heater pull cable tubes and ran a new tube for a hand throttle since I will have carbs. Im not sure how short to cut these, or if they need to be bent so they point straight towards the rear of the car.


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[SirAndy]

Here's the front of the tubing.

Instead of spot welding the tube to the tunnel, it's better to put a clamp around it and weld the clamp to the tunnel.

The spotwelds *will* break since there's a lot of form working on those every time to press down on the clutch pedal ...

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