The adventures weren’t limited to drives and meets. It did involve a DIY job as well
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DIY Job: How I executed it
It was a sunny day for a drive through the city, and a neat Skoda Fabia of a fellow TeamBHP member was giving me good company as we had a good time cruising through town. As we headed down KR Circle to Corporation, I felt a snap under my right foot. Seconds later, I had no throttle. I pressed the pedal as much as I could, but had 0 throttle. We slowed down and stopped beside a fuel station on that road.
A look at the pedal told me that the throttle cable had snapped. During the fitment of the carburetor from an Esteem, the throttle cable had to be changed as well by the mechanic, as the length differed due to this being a different carburetor from the one on the NE. The new cable was just the right length and would have snapped after tension at full throttle. Anyway, we had to do something about this. I could not leave the car there and fix it later. The option was simple: get something to extend the remaining part of the cable and either tie it to the pedal or pull it by hand. We still had one main problem with this. What will we tie the cable to?
This did not take too long, surprisingly. Thanks to our city’s wonderful infrastructure works, we came across a big bunch of wires from a recent underground cabling work, just thrown around on the pavement. Amidst coils of black wires was this silver cable sticking out. Perfectly matching the throttle cable! All we had to do now was tie them together, which brought us to the next problem. How do we tie them together? Cable tires did not help one bit. So, we took the Fabia to a quick run to SP Road, which was not too far, to grab hold of something that could potentially fix the two wires together. We had the idea of crimping the wires together, but a good hunt around SP road brought us no luck. One shop had lugs to fuse them, but no crimping gun. Before we could head back, we found a shop that had a hollow metal lug he gave us as a sample of what he had, but he mentioned it would not really help us in our scenario. We had to go with it anyway.
We came back to the car with the hollow lug and a couple of cable ties. Thanks to the emergency tool kit we had, we managed to fuse the two wires but inserting both wires into the lug and using the cutting pliers to press the lug and fix the wires together. With the help of the cable ties at the end, we were good to go! The drive from there to our usual FNG was quite an experience, having to control the throttle by hand and not using the pedal. It wasn’t a hard fix, so the car was ready within a day.
The spot where the cable attaches to the pedal
Not so easy to just tie these up together
Cutting pliers as a crimping tool, a means to fuse the two wires.
The cable, now held firmly with everything we could hold them together with
The final look, once the car made it to the garage
What’s next?
All in all, it’s been an epic few months with the NE, and I am sure there’s more to come. But for now, it’s time I get all the pending minor works completed. As I finish this little update, the car is being taken care of by a brilliant mechanic, all thanks to @arun1100. The car is getting its AC compressor belt and alignment (of the compressor) fixed, along with electrical work and a few other minor things that had to be addressed.
Yup! She’s a head turner!
A good companion on calm night drives
Just cannot stop shooting pictures of the car each time she’s out for any drive
Some cool cars the 118NE has come across so far!
The 1/87 in the world, Techart GT Street R in Python Green!
The R35 Nissan GT-R. This particular car has been signed by the Godfather of the GT-R ‘Hiroshi Tamura’, on the hood and the spoiler! 
Bentley CGT!
As I leave you with the photos of 118NE, I look forward to sharing much more from the journey to come!
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