pedals
 

well, my 370 does not have the touring package, so i have these gay looking plastic pedals which annoy me. Anyways, I want metal pedals, and have looked around but all I find are those slip over covers, you can buy a pepboys, and well hell no.

So question, has anyone taken appart the pedal assembly yet? If I can get the pedals out, I can run dimensions on it, have a CAD model, and send it over to the CNC, and get the pedals fully machined. Similar to this:

http://www.1320video.com/img/mikeyg/spyker_pedals.jpg

mounted top side obviously, Just need to get the damn pedal out to take measurements, maybe even do the accelerator pedal in aluminum.

so if anyone has any info it would be appreciated.


edit: yeah I just took a good look, they are metal, with a rubber pad, but have a funky tiwst to get them to their position. Maybe just taking of the rubber, and instead placing a aluminum pad, would be a nice solution. Should be very easy to do for the accelerator, and just use, selftapping screws.

Is that off a spyker c8?

I would like pedals too :)

has to be a spyker....who else has that triangle pattern all over the interior....sweet looking! haha

yeah it is a spykar, which has a nice set of pedals in my opinion.

LOL! I saw that pic and said to myself "That looks like a Spykar!!!" :D At least I'm not the only car obsessed guy that would spot that right away.

I love the Spykar's shifter too! That's pretty bad a$$.

Its Spyker, with an E guys..

^^^ We all knew that. We were testing you. :D

By the way, I'd never buy a Spyker because the Spyker guys over at the autoshow here in Los Angeles were being douche-bags. Terrible salesmanship on their part.

I'm assuming you could probably just buy the touring pedals from the dealer or online and install them. Depending on price, i may do the same as i have ordered a base model.

Gang,

I am sure that Courtesy Nissan and their parts (CourtesyParts.com) division will have them on line very shortly.

I did this with my 350z base model and I am going to do the same with my 370z. I saw yesterday that courtesy has alot more parts on there 370z site. Most are not in stock but at least they are working on it. Just waiting for them to get the pedals up for sale. Hope it isnt much longer.

those are some funky looking pedals...lol

the pedals on the touring although aluminum and all are not the best looking things either. but at least they look like pedals that need to be on a 35k+ car. I will be taking out the pedals and taking dimensions for design this weekend. i will keep you folks posted.


also had an idea about an intake, any one know the much air that engine sucks?

Try ULTIMATE PEDALS

^^^^ thanks man, great site, and not too expensive. I sent them an e-mail, hopefully they have them coming soon, or need a donor car to test fit, at which stage ill just drive up the 24 miles to get there.

I used ultimate pedals in my M-Coupe, they work great for manual heel/toe with the extension and look better than the plastic/rubber OE:

http://www.billswebspace.com/bmwmc221.jpg

I've always wondered...don't those metal pedals get very slippery when it's wet outside???

I had a set on my MINI, but i bought them from a MINI after market dealer, they are very nice looking, I just always thought it was a MINi exclusive product.

they do not slip even if its wet, i mean you are not really moving your feet. Pain to install, if you forget to buy the right drill bits, and the position you need to get into, but yeah.

Anyone try this yet?

I'm still undecided on a base w/ sport vs. a touring w/ sport. If I go with the base, the pedal swap from the touring would be one of my first mods. Hoping it's an easy install.

I actually find the aluminum pedals with this texture less slippery than the rubber pedals in my wife's car. Getting rid of the rubber also allows for more pedal feel, I guess this is why exotic cars have metal pedals from the factory.

Person above is right, the position you will have to be in to drill holes is slightly more comfortable than full yoga in some cars and you don't want to skimp on drill bits. I found using a center punch, a smaller bit, and then a correct sized bit was the easiest way to do this after doing several pedal installations in various cars I have owned.

^^ wrh3 is correct. This is how I installed some pedals in an 1999 civic many years ago. Start with a smaller bit, work your way up to the correct bit size it calls for. Whatever kind of steel factory pedals are made of......is very hard. =O)