Frank's 818R build

[Pearldrummer7]

Thanks for the vid! Inspiration to keep plugging away.

Looks/Sounds like a great time at a nice track -a perfect day. Glad your shakedown only had the shifter cable issue & that everything else worked out to your satisfaction.

Great news on your successful track day, congratulations.

Thanks guys, it means a lot to me! It's incentive for me to keep working on her, too. It's DEFINITELY worth all the late nights, frustration, and confusion.

Hey Frank,
Glad to see you had a great first track day. Michael and I are looking forward to the same.

I can think of a few reasons I've seen cable fail at that point. Not in particular order.
1. Manufacturing defect. (over crimped.)
2. To much bend at the point of breakage. (You want that joint to be as straight as possible)
3. Electrical current. (forgetting engine strap ground puts current through cable)
4. more force than the cable was designed for.
5. Lack of lubrication (manufacture defect)

if the wire strands kind of look melted at the tips. I would look at #3.
With a to sharp of bend, one stand will break or pull out. Mucking up all the others.

Bob

Bob, good suggestions. The ends are all sharp and definitely look sheared. Hopefully this rules out #3. Since it's the FFR shifter side, there's not much I can do to adjust the bend at this point. But it does look like too bend here or perhaps a manufacturing defect. I'm thinking rather than risk it (and also risk missing a shift with the vagueness of the shifter), I'll just upgrade to one with more feel. Again, definitely looks sheared here to me. The shifter felt bad for maybe ~10 laps before it broke. Perhaps one strand of cable broke before the rest of them did.

When is your and Michael's first track day, Bob?


Thanks,
Frank