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Old 06-16-2003, 07:18 AM
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Gas Pedal Responsiveness

Does anyone know how to make the gas pedal more responsive? I want it to be that it gives it more gas without pushing it down as far.. A little sportier. Any way to adjust it?
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Tighten your throttle cables
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Old 06-16-2003, 07:52 AM
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Tighten your throttle cables
Which are located where exactly, if you don't mind my asking?
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Old 06-16-2003, 07:59 AM
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It's connected to the throttle body (fire hydrant looking think next to the air intake). There are 2 cables, one is for the cruise control, the other for the throttle. Tighten both by pulling out the slack and retightening the bolts on the cable...
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Next to the throttle body. There's two of them, one is for the cruise control and the other is your gas pedal. Just take the slack out of them, don't make them to tight or you may start to pull the throttle open which of course will jump your idle speed up.
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Old 06-16-2003, 08:00 AM
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Open engine bay. Look on top of the intake manifold. You will see two cables. One is the throttle cable one is the cruise control cable. Figure out which one is throttle and tension it a bit using the nuts on the cable.

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Which are located where exactly, if you don't mind my asking?
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Old 06-16-2003, 08:03 AM
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Awesome. Thanks Guys
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Old 06-16-2003, 12:40 PM
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Originally posted by ZuMBLe
Open engine bay. Look on top of the intake manifold. You will see two cables. One is the throttle cable one is the cruise control cable. Figure out which one is throttle and tension it a bit using the nuts on the cable.

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lol--jigsaw, zumble, and njmax--you guys just posted almost the same thing at almost the exact same time...what a cowinkedink..
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Those two beat me.

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lol--jigsaw, zumble, and njmax--you guys just posted almost the same thing at almost the exact same time...what a cowinkedink..
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Old 06-16-2003, 08:24 PM
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.... but tighten it by how much?
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Old 06-16-2003, 08:29 PM
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just enough so the throttle plate/butterfly does not move
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