Throttle connection to Holley Carb?

[FLcustom10]

Can someone advise me on what to buy to connect the throttle and the transmission kickdown cable to the Holley 4160 carb?

[prostreetC-10]

There are sometimes a few different ways of hooking up the cables. The actual throttle cable you have looks to use a ball stud connection. The TV cable for your TH350 looking trans will go to the bottom part of the bracket. It's a smooth rod that will have an E clip or hole for a cotter pin. You will probably need the adjustable kick-down bracket so you can really dial in the downshift points. The trick to the throttle is to position the ball stud so you have the most about of travel in the cable. What I mean is if you go too close to the shaft, the throttle arc will be short and the throttle can be a little erratic. You want to use all of the cable length so all the way forward get the throttle to rest and all the way back gets full throttle. You will want play in it though so you are not prying on the primary shaft when the gas pedal is pressed. Hope this makes sense. It can take a little time to get the geometry right but it is worth it. If you closed your eye and worked the pedal on my dual 4 barrel setup, you'd think I had a single 2 barrel on it. Very smooth.

[FLcustom10]

Thanks.

I should have mentioned that the cable is not long enough to make the connection so I think I will need some sort of extension. Here is what I'm looking at, but I'm not sure what combination would be best.


http://www.summitracing.com/parts/HLY-20-7/


http://www.summitracing.com/parts/HLY-20-45/


http://www.summitracing.com/parts/HLY-20-88/


http://www.summitracing.com/parts/SPE-24283/

[Autoblueprint]

Originally Posted by FLcustom10

Can someone advise me on what to buy to connect the throttle and the transmission kickdown cable to the Holley 4160 carb?

I'm using a 4150 with stock throttle and kickdown cables. I don't think there is any "bolt-on" parts that will work without some fabrication. I went to the Holley website and found the linkage part numbers I needed for my carb and purchased them through Summit.

Here is a photo of my carb set-up...maybe this will help ( scroll down the page till you come to PHOTO M 30 ) :

4150 Carb Linkage Set-Up

[webfoot]

Any parts store with a decent selection of holley stuff should have the hardware you need.

[prostreetC-10]

Originally Posted by webfoot

Any parts store with a decent selection of holley stuff should have the hardware you need.

You just need to know what you need or it can get expensive. I realize that's why you started the thread.