i am wondering if and where you can buy shortend hand brake, accelerator and clutch cables
any help would be great
thanks
matt

I bought some new handbrake cables, measured how long they needed to be, then took them to a Boat Chandlery and got them to shorten them for me, cost about $6 a cable I think.
The clutch cable I just looped over and clamped.

all mine were looped over and clamped so it just may go back that way,

Matt, if you just loop them over and clamp them make sure that you put an eye in the loop (not sure of the correct name but it's a metal fitting arround which you loop the cable before crimping) I did a clutch cable without the fitting and it didn't last too long at all, the cable just frayed away at the clutch pedal end. The accellerator cable is easy as to do, the boat people I went to didn't have a small enough fitting for the carbie end so I simply drilled a hole into the end of a 75mm nail, it was the exact diameter as the existing piece, you will need a pedestal drill though so that you can set the nail up to drill it accuratly, with the last clutch cable I found it best to use the pedel end of the new cable, cut it to length and then have the chandler swage a new fitting on down at the gear box end, same for the handbrake cables, they had new fittings at the hand brake lever end. It's a bit of a bugger trying to work out the correct length for the hand brake and clutch cables but if you can figure out how much the pan has been shortened by you should be able to shorten the cables by the same amount. Mind you I paid more than $6 each, the fitting cost more than that as the ones the chandlers have are s/steel.

There are plenty of places were you can have automotive cables made, Flexable drive agencies or ATS cables in queensland will make all types of automotive cables, you will probably find that these will be manufactured to the current ADR and will be legal to use on the street unlike any that you have crimpt at a marine chandler.

I hear what your saying vwo60 but what would stop a cable being ADR approved, if a cable fails it dosn't matter much why, if trhe cable breaks or the fitting comes off the end it is the same result and the way the chandler fits the fitting to the cable is extremely strong as they have to withstand the tension loads imposed by the rigging / sails etc.

Actually ADR's do apply, hand brake is really an emergency brake. looping them (in the middle) is technically correct (altho not real great imo), Flexi-drive Agencies will make them, also trailer manufacturers will often have the gear. The bloke wanting a loop thingy to make an eye in the end of the cable, it's called a thimble, and the crimp thingy is a swage and it's fitted with a swaging tool, some are big pliers, but for the new threaded fittings should normally use a 'roll swager' a much bigger hydrolic tool.

I bought mine from Custom Vee Dub.

have emailed custome vee dub, awaiting there reply