67 Butternut Build

[sjaroslo]

Here's what I wrote to KUSI:

Overall I am happy with the Ironworks bracket. I will try to get out there in the next day or two to show you a picture. There are a couple of minor drawbacks, I think, though. I have to say, I haven't gotten my car running, so I've never driven it, so these are just static observations. I'm just about 6' tall, but I'm pretty heavy, and I think that I'm going to be pretty uncomfortable with things the way they are currently. I think that the pedal could be moved another 1" or 2" away from me and still have plenty of room to function (but I don't know how that will line up with GM's pedal spacing recommendations). The brake pedal doesn't feel in an uncomfortable position for me but I'm afraid that the gas might be. The 2nd issue with the bracket is that it is only held in place around the steering column, and the actual bracket where the pedal attaches is kind of "cantilevered" out and is just sort of hanging in free space. While the bracket is in fact pretty beefy steel, it still has a little bit of flex out there.... Probably not serious but just kind of weird. You'll see from my pictures that East Bay Muscle Cars just welded a small support rod to it that stiffens it up a bit.

The whole reason that I bought the bracket in the first place was so that I didn't have to do any welding, but had I known that I was going to have to put the car into another high end shop for the repairs that I did, I would have just asked them to fab and weld a mount directly to the floor. But for a no-weld solution, I haven't seen anything else out there and it is an OK part. It does come as raw metal so you'll definitely want to plan on paint or powdercoat (which is what I did).