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Old 03-17-2009, 01:17 PM
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Default Are you speaking of the C4 or C5 style

Caliper.

The distance he moved the clutch down had to do with getting a straight shot at the masters so the master push rod was not moving at an angle and loosing mechanical advatage. On mine it is about 1 to 1.5, I did not measure but it is close.

You never said if you were running a stock type clutch, hydrolic or if you car was an automatic. Anyway I am sure Jim would be happy to get you set up but I still think if I had it to do over I would get the Tilton pedals to work

Take a look here: http://www.tiltonracing.com/content....list2&id=4&m=b

I think it would be far easier to do this than the route I took. Take a look at the drawings as it has measurements. You will need to cut holes in your firewall, but you will need to do that anyway. If you do this you will need to remove the stock brace/pedal locator and fab up something else.

If you like mine I will get you Jim's number
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Old 03-23-2009, 10:08 PM
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but I still think if I had it to do over I would get the Tilton pedals to work

Take a look here: http://www.tiltonracing.com/content....list2&id=4&m=b

I think it would be far easier to do this than the route I took. Take a look at the drawings as it has measurements. You will need to cut holes in your firewall, but you will need to do that anyway. If you do this you will need to remove the stock brace/pedal locator and fab up something else.
Is there anyone here that has actually done something like this: installed an aftermarket set of Tilton / Wilwood / etc pedals into their project, specifically a 1st or 2nd gen Camaro?

I would think this would be a nice way to go also, but I have no idea how one would go about mounting the pedals in a safe/secure enough way under the dash area. Other than the steering column mount, I don't remember any significant bracing to work from. And you can't simply mount them to the firewall, there would be entirely too much flex.

So I'm curious as to what people have for ideas on mounting a set of aftermarket pedals like this...

Thoughts?
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Old 03-24-2009, 09:32 AM
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Default The factory pedal locator/brace is a

pretty stout piece. Just messing with mine I would imagine that you would need to take the stock brace out and fab up your mounting system and bracing. Should not be that difficult. Where it gets tight is the clutch and brake pedal drop straight down so the column would go in between those. It will be tight but it will work. Not sure how far over it is and what kind of room you have for the gas pedal but Matt made it work.

Matt Jones from AME did this on his 69 Camaro. There is a thread over at www.pro-touring.com that is beind discussed right now. I think Matt is going to post up some pics.
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i may be going down that road since jim never called me back...
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Old 03-24-2009, 02:57 PM
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Default I will give him an buzz and make sure he got the

message. That is not like him not to return a call.
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i talked to him initially and he said he was going to call me back. i just figured maybe he was on vacation with spring break goin on and stuff
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