Reply to "Pantera's and Carburetor Geometry"

FAST....with the new throttle cable positioning do you find that in corners when you are trying to modulate the throttle on/off for over-steer/under-steer, that you've lost some control...kind of like "all" or "nothing"? "All" feels good in a straight line, but when you're on the edge of nuetral and over-steer in a fast corner and you push the throttle and get "all" it may have the tendency to give you that "oh sheeet" throttle effect when you're suddenly over-steering.

I had a webber carb setup that needed a killer spring because it was in a right hand drive car...the cable came down the far right side of the car and had to curve around 90 degrees to get the webber throttle. That made the cable/pedal hard and stiff....and to close all those throttles, we tried a bigger spring to compensate. I hated it, because you had to almost do bench press to make the throttle work which was really bad from a finesse stand point....easy on and off of the throttle disrupts the car far less in corners. Even in deceleration when you pulled your foot out of the gas it would almost snap shut the throttle butterflies, radically changing rear wheel bite and stance of the car with weight transfer to the front wheels. It was a pain and had to be changed.

I think possibly the throttle pedal on the Pantera (a road car, not a dragster) was designed to give a long pedal travel to allow the driver to make slight adjustments to throttle position, rather than all or noting...I'm exaggerating on the all or nothing but you get the idea?