Accelerator!

(10/06/2024)

I had a few moments to work on the car recently and installed an accelerator pedal from a random Mercedes. I think they use these in a lot of vehicles, but this was one of a few pedals I found where the pivot was at the bottom and not the top. I have VERY little room in the pedal box for a different pedal and I didn’t like the cable-driven setup I had started.

I ended up machining out a block of aluminum to hold the pedal at the right depth/angle and mounted it to the side of the transmission tunnel.

I like this pedal because it also has a double wiper, which I can use in my Thunderstruck VCU. It appears that the linearity of each pot is a little different, which may be interesting to configure.