90 degree mounting of control cables on a -4.
Brian - I thought about that for a while also. I will be interested to see if you can make it work.
I discarded the idea for a couple of reasons:
- 1. I had the parts to do it the standard way, and I had completed the air box.
- 2. I could not find anyone who had done it.
In retrospect I think it might be more difficult than I had thought. If you look at this picture,
http://gikonfwf.blogspot.com/2008/02/throttle-and-mixture-linkage.html#links , you see that in fact it would be very hard to make the steel part that VANS supplies to hold the two cables any smaller because the cables themselves define the distance it sticks back, or sideways if you mount it cross wise. I never bolted it all together sideways but it seemed to me I would never have the cables bend around quick enough to stay clear of the cowl.
I wanted to keep the area between my feet clear for baggage and to adjust CofG so that stopped the cables coming in there. With the right length cables I have ended up with them all coming into the fuse as you see here ,
http://gikonfuse.blogspot.com/2008/02/throttle-cable.html#links , and they all work smoothly. The worst bend, and it is tight is the one, you see in the first picture, for the mixture.
I will be really interested to see if you do it.
God luck!