Pedal box: Work of art

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Victors

Just wanted to show some pictures of my new work of art.

My good friend James McCudden gave me the pedal box casting as a present.
A beautiful identical copy of the original GT 40 pedal box. A work of art in itself that has been sitting on my desk for a few months just as decoration. Most of you know what a perfectionist James is, but when you see his work, you realize the extent of his pursuit for perfection.
Thanks mate!

And John Shand is working on the pedal box, fitting all the additional parts, so I can instal it on 2231, which I am very much looking forward. For the looks of his work I can see he is also one of the "perfectionist club", but I am sorry I will not be able to check it out personally.
Although I wish I could visit you... and review your work first hand, John.
Some day maybe...

Hopefully this summer we will instal the new pedal box and finalize some fine tuning and upgrades I intend to do on the car.

JP
 
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Garry

JP, looking good. Nice to see that you are back on the forum. Be sure to keep us posted with your "improvements".
Garry
 
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Mike Drew

Victors said:
My good friend James McCudden gave me the pedal box casting as a present.
A beautiful identical copy of the original GT 40 pedal box. A work of art in itself that has been sitting on my desk for a few months just as decoration.

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And John Shand is working on the pedal box, fitting all the additional parts, so I can instal it on 2231, which I am very much looking forward. For the looks of his work I can see he is also one of the "perfectionist club"...
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>>>As a very junior member of that same club (that is, one with big dreams but no car as of yet!), might I ask this question--does the Superformance not come from the factory with an original-style pedal box? If not, what are the differences? I've noted that none of the SPF cars I've paid attention to had the dead pedal, but they were also all LHD cars, and I assumed that's why it was left out.

Please elaborate on the differences between the SPF and genuine pedal boxes. I may need to add another item to the growing list of things I want deleted when I finally get around to ordering my car from SPF.

THANKS!
 
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Mike Drew said:
>>>As a very junior member of that same club (that is, one with big dreams but no car as of yet!), might I ask this question--does the Superformance not come from the factory with an original-style pedal box? If not, what are the differences? I've noted that none of the SPF cars I've paid attention to had the dead pedal, but they were also all LHD cars, and I assumed that's why it was left out.

Please elaborate on the differences between the SPF and genuine pedal boxes. I may need to add another item to the growing list of things I want deleted when I finally get around to ordering my car from SPF.

THANKS!
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Mike,

The SPF pedal box approximates the original but it fabricated out of steel, not cast like the FAV item. Unless you know what the box "should" be, most would never know. The cast piece John and guys have come up wth is a fabulous casting.

SPF will not delete the standard pedal box as you would not get a credit and they must install it to fit all the pedals, master cylinders, etc. If you want the cast unit you may have it added by a dealer (hint, hint....) or do it yourself if you like playing contorsonist
 
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Victors

Mike,

The pedal box in the SPF is just fine for the car as Rick says. In my case the accelerator pedal is a bit unstable with a little play on the sides but I do not know about other cars, it might be just fine.
If you are not a super expert or plan to get very close to the originals the pedal box that comes with the car makes the deal, and I would never get the car without it. It is a very good starting point (to say the least) that you can modify (or not) any time.

But when you try to have a car as close as possible to the original, as it is my case, fitting an original GT 40 pedal box makes a difference.

I will try to get pictures of the actual pedal box, and the new one when installed so you can compare

JP
 
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Mike,

Take a look at pics of my P2125 in the SPFn forum to see the dead pedal Olthoff fabricated for my L hand drive.

Steve
 
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Victors

Hi all,

It took quite a while, more than expected (work, shows, races...) but I finally got my hands into the work of art.
And the 3 of us are now together! The pedal box, the car and me.

Although not installed in the car yet, the finished pedal box is here and it looks fantastic. Great job and well done, John.
And thanks so much again, James. This will make a different for sure.

Pictures of the reunion with the car now. I will post some more when installed
 
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Cliff Beer

Wow, absolutely beautiful. JP, you're lucky to have convinced John S. to fit it out for you but, of course, you already know that!

I'd love to upgrade the pedal box in my CAV. The stock CAV pedal box is nothing to write home about, that's for sure. And, I've treated it accordingly...when I got the car the brake pedal just cleared the gas pedal by about a 1/4 inch - handy for heel/toe, except that is so close that you get heel/toe even when you don't want it - I got down there with the hack saw and sawed the lower right hand corner off the brake pedal to get some clearance and that made a big improvement. That's the extent of my pedal box "improvements" to date.....
 
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JP,
It's looking good to me and I see that John has done his finest again.
Warm regards,
 
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Having gone through this, I can vouch for exactly how much trouble it in fact is (plenty) and also how good a feeling it is when you slide the completed pedal box assembly into the car and it all fits and bolts in. That is a very nice piece of work there; expensive and worth all the expense and difficulty. Because it's RIGHT.

I got my basic castings and pedals etc from Safir. All the small parts (and dead pedal) came from Jay Cushman, and some of the final fitting and assembly I did myself (and it still works). Note that, inexplicably, on my car, two different types of bolts are required from top to bottom to secure the assembly; I hope you don't have to go through that. But if the ones from the bottom don't fit the top, now you know why.

I used Wilwood masters, but Girlings are available which look the same and are closer to original fitment, so I'll bet you'll use those.

And finally, there are a lot of people on this forum who love their cars, but no one- NO ONE- has a garage painted Linden Green inside to match their GT40. Way to go, JP!
 
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jimbo said:
...Note that, inexplicably, on my car, two different types of bolts are required from top to bottom to secure the assembly; I hope you don't have to go through that. But if the ones from the bottom don't fit the top, now you know why.
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I learned about this the hard way on my SPF where the four bolts are the same size except for length. The outside upper mounting point is a shallow threaded blind hole; that is, the "bottom" of the hole is the sheet metal that forms the flat surface in front of the windshield. If you use the wrong bolt (i.e. one that is too long) it bottoms agains the sheet metal, at best making a visible "blister" and at worst stripping the threads. In either case that one of the four mounting point is then not fastened securely.
 
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