Here are some pics from the meet I went to today, plus the story of my Limp-R making it home by a thread... literally.

but first, some ITR hotness.






Mmmm... CW.

And now why my R limped home... while looking under the hood to check the s/c idler pulley, someone notices something a wee bit wrong with my throttle cable.


After trying to think of places to get a trottle cable, we realize it just wasnt going to happen today. Time for some h-t ingenuity. A h-t mod steps in and makes a few suggestions of how to rig it just to get me the 130 miles back home. We had a mission... find wire. We went to the only place we could find wire. Michael's Arts & Crafts.



we got wire.. for picture frames.



We decided to unbraid it so it would be thin enough to wrap around the freyed areas.



After an h-t mod and I taking turns ghetto rigging this trottle cable, done with the upmost precision and skill, it looked like this...



In the end, it got me home. All in all, it was a fun meet. Just a nervous ride home.

 

sponsored by michaels arts and crafts

 

nice pics, glad you made it home safe brad. you gonna take the car to mr davis?

 

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Heh, I wasnt sure I was gonna make it home. I had my friend with a tow truck waiting for me to call. As for the cable... nah. It's an easy fix. Oh, btw, the problem with the belt was the idler pulley. A slight adjustment fixed it.

 

how the hell did your throttle cable look like that?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by w@@t w@@t &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">how the hell did your throttle cable look like that? </TD></TR></TABLE>LOL.. neglect

 

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It was not neglect. I was under the hood just yesterday investigating a belt problem, and the throttle cable was not damaged. I suspect it began to fray, and as I pressed on the throttle it would have gotten caught, and stripping it off bit by bit in stop and go traffic like i had today.

 

I have 105,000 miles of stop and go traffic on my car... My throttle cable looks brand new

oh it's a 2001 ITR by the way.

 

mine did too, however I believe the JRSC bracket for the throttle cable puts too much stress on it... and others at the meet today agreed. I think I need to modify the bracket to put less stress on the cable.

 

Wish I could have been there to see it Beth

 

Nice pics

glad you made it home

 

awesome DIY to get you home.

 

Nice meet and great pictures. Glad that your car survived the trip home.