Got my aluminum gas and dead pedal today and installed them. They are anodized aluminum and look like they were factory. Very great quality and finish. The dead pedal installs easily. 10mm deep socket to remove two bolts on the huge plastic deal pedal (really a "shell") and then drill two holes in it and mount the new pedal cover on top of the old one. Took all of 15 minutes.
The gas pedal, however, took me almost 90 minutes! It was a bitch to put it mildly. The cuss-factor was high. No only do you have to be the skinniest guy in the world, but you have to also be a master at the art of Yoga to get down into the footwell to work on the gas pedal. A mirror is a MUST and without you'd never be able to do it. Removing the old pedal is a toughie as there is a shoulder bolt that you have to "pull" out and doesn't give you much to work with when trying to grasp it with channel locks. The brake pedal being right in the your way just compounded things. There's no way in hell I could get both my arms in there to work on it, otherwise it would have taken me 20 minutes tops. I had to use my left hand mostly and I'm right handed. Once the old pedal was off, it was another uphill rough task to get the new one on.
As you can see below, the final product is far more aesthetically pleasing to look at it.
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Sounds like Elite is grossly misrepresenting the amount of time it takes to install the accelerator pedal.
Well, first off, the products never came with any printed instructions in the box. I had to go back to their web and print them off their site.
They do state that once the old pedal is off, that the installation part of the new one is the "most challenging part of the installation".
I mean it... you gotta be a tiny Yoga master to manuever your body down there to get both hands down there. I had to work with one hand at all times and I had to switch back and forth. My right shoulder is still sore from that install. removing the driver seat might have made things a LOT easier, but I didn't want to add any more time to the already 60 minutes that I was into it before I thought of that.
I highly recommend removing the driver seat for anyone about to embark on this mod.
QUOTE=bjaber]Well, first off, the products never came with any printed instructions in the box. I had to go back to their web and print them off their site.
They do state that once the old pedal is off, that the installation part of the new one is the "most challenging part of the installation".
I mean it... you gotta be a tiny Yoga master to manuever your body down there to get both hands down there. I had to work with one hand at all times and I had to switch back and forth. My right shoulder is still sore from that install. removing the driver seat might have made things a LOT easier, but I didn't want to add any more time to the already 60 minutes that I was into it before I thought of that.
I highly recommend removing the driver seat for anyone about to embark on this mod.[/quote]
I DID MINE IN ABOUT 10 MIN'S FOR THE GAS PEDAL AND 15 MIN FOR THE DEAD PEDAL.
DID THE GAS PEDAL PRETTY MUCH BY FEEL USING NEEDLE NOSE VISEGRIPS (USING THE LEFT HAND) BY THE WAY I'M
6'5" 250 LBS
I got the deadpedal at LAPD one of our site vendors. I don't remember where I bought the gas pedaal, but it came with great photos and instructions and you could visualize what to do without actually looking at the parts. I believe the trick is to use the needle nose vise grips!
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Last edited by FredLewandowski : 08-11-2006 at 05:02 PM.
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