Day one of (Transformer) Stratos ownership...

[ChrisCar6]

Sounds like a Grumpy Bates floor mounted accelerator pedal. I've put an ali sheet shield between the clutch pedal and the lever. Basically with normal shoes you get any two pedals at one time. Getting just one can be tricky! If you want to swap back to the original Hawk setup, there's one of their accelerator pedals on the Bay of e here: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Lancia-Str...item5d43cde56c

[Elliott]

You'll soon get used to it!!!!

[ProtoTipo]

If you want to swap back to the original Hawk setup, there's one of their accelerator pedals on the Bay

And I've got the missing bush for the other end.
'Looks like Mark's rocker switches have been breeding too?!

[goldtop]

Thanks for the heads-up on the accelerator pedal and bush. This - or adding that sheet of metal to keep the accelerator linkage out of the way of the clutch - is one of the things that Keith (Elliott's mechanic who I will continue to use) thought was worth changing sooner rather than later.

I'll Google for photos/diagrams of the standard Hawk set-up.

Meanwhile, I'll put the brothel-creepers away and dig out my '80s dancing shoes for driving.

[ProtoTipo]

There is a good reason why that spare pendant accelerator pedal exists.
For the pendant throttle pedal, providing enough cable movement and also having a good cable routing is quite an engineering challenge on the RHD Hawk.
A floor mounted pedal is usually the alternative/solution.

I noticed the Lotus Elise has a clever mechanism for its RHD pendant throttle pedal/cable arrangement. I'm sure a version of it could be used on Stratos replicas. I'm pretty sure it could be geared up or down too.

[strat24v]

i'm going back to the pendant style with a little trickery for the cable. Im planning on a bit of the space over the centre spine to become clutch foot space.

[ProtoTipo]

Good idea John.

Here's a photo of the Elise mechanism, and it has a nice feel to it too:
Elise Throttle pedal

[goldtop]

I read the original Transformer build manual last night. It's a bit short on detail, but it seems to suggest that the planned route for the accelerator cable was upwards and around the top of the door aperture and then into the engine bay. Seems bizarre to me, but have any of you guys got/seen that?

Im planning on a bit of the space over the centre spine to become clutch foot space.

I like that idea, too. Although I presume that the original purpose for the Stratos didn't include long periods cruising in the same gear!

[ChrisCar6]

That was the original plan. IIRC the Beta twink that was the commonest engine had the throttle on the offside, so wasn't as tortuous as getting it to come up under the Alfa throttle body on the other side. Hence the modification to a floor hung pedal that the cable can run up the spine.
That Elise setup is something that I would look at when starting from scratch.