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In my Hustler, I have a Porsche motor. The throttle linkage is a improvised mess.

After reinstalling the motor, I left it the way I found it, I wanted to keep the car

just the way I got it. The way it is, the VW cable comes through the floor in its 

normal place, and has no outer shield, and connects to the bell crank on the 

back of the motor with a homemade clip. It’s impossible to get all the slack out

of the cable, so I only get about 1/2 throttle. It makes driving the car a drag.

Any ideas? 

Also, I can’t remember if I posted the story of # 5014, the 14th car off the Porsche

assy.line when Porsche moved back to Stuttgart ?

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So I too put a Porsche engine in Vintage Speedster. Here is the way mine works.

2 problems for me were 1, the bell crank only works well when the pull operates at near 90 deg angle so you can't pull straight out like the VW set up would like you to do. So I had to build a simple change of direction pulley mounted on the firewall (see photo). A simple bracket with 2 bearings sandwiched together with a small chamfer on each pulley allowing a little groove for the cable to sit in. In the photo it is not adjusted so you see a little slack. That brings us to problem 2, adjustment. See next photo, (on same bracket just on inside firewall), I bought a hollow bolt, ran cable through it, and built a simple adjuster mounted inside firewall. This allows for proper adjustment. Since I didn't have correct bell crank I made mine from a couple pieces I had but You should be able to find correct one.The connector on the bell crank is simple fitting I believe from Lokar Performance. Should have taken better pics while engine was out but I'm not that smart! Hope this makes some sense. It does work perfect now

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Scottmac hit it right on the head. Changing the direction of the pull was the tough part. His set up is right. On a Porsche, the accelerator rod pulls down on an angle, as opposed to straight back on a VW. Nice job, and thanks for the idea. The only problem is, I have to take the motor out, which is no easy task on the Hustler. There’s no room behind the fan shroud to get your hand. By the time you squeeze you hand back there to loosen the bolts, you look like you put your hand through a meat grinder. I hate to be a pest but, does anyone remember if I posted the article on the 1950 Porsche Cab #5014?

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Scottmac hit it right on the head. Changing the direction of the pull was the tough part. His set up is right. On a Porsche, the accelerator rod pulls down on an angle, as opposed to straight back on a VW. Nice job, and thanks for the idea. The only problem is, I have to take the motor out, which is no easy task on the Hustler. There’s no room behind the fan shroud to get your hand. By the time you squeeze you hand back there to loosen the bolts, you look like you put your hand through a meat grinder. I hate to be a pest but, does anyone remember if I posted the article on the 1950 Porsche Cab #5014?

@ashcreek I went through all of your old posts and you did not post anything about the 1950 Cab.

Thanks Robert M for looking in to it. 

The story starts in about 1970. I was in school, and building

souped up VW’s with dual Holley Bug sprays that never

worked right. On the weekends, for fun, I would go out

on the Post Rd., and look for somebody to race. One day

a flat black 356 tries to pull away from me, and was 

surprised that I could keep up. He and I became best

freinds and started working on cars together. I was the 

engine builder, and he knew how to weld and do primitive

body work. We lived in a town in Ct. called Westport. I had 

just moved there from the south Bronx. What a shock. 

Anyway, back then we would find 356’s in peoples yards,

by them for $500.00, weld floors in them and sell them

for $2000.00 We had 4 Speedsters, and I don’t thinks we 

paid more than a $1000.00 for any of them. One day, my

partner comes back to the shop and tells me he just found

an 356 split window Cab. He claimed it had wood in the 

interior. He was going nuts. The next day, he left the shop

to run an errand, and never came back. His sister called

and told me he had fallen of his motorcycle. He had no

helmet on, and banged his head up pretty bad. He was in 

the hospital for a while, and the old Cab never really

entired my mind. That was the end of our shop. Even

though he hit his head, he still remembered that old car.

To make a long, long story short, he bought it. It turned 

out to be a 1950 Cab. Vin#5014. It was the 14th Porsche

of the assy line when Porsche moved back to Stuttgart.

It was the 1st steel bodied Cab ever made. He restored

it, drove it for 20 years and sold it for $90 K. The next

buyer put $200 K into it and sold it to the Factory.

I think it’s in the Porsche museum today. They paid

1.2 million for it. Tomorrow I’ll send some pictures of

when he and I redid it and drove it to Laguna Seca for 

the 50th anniversary of Porsche. 

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