Re: Heel & Toe <was: A4 VW's & Driving bare foot>

[skerocdriver@juno.com (SHAWN C MEZE)]

On Sat, 4 Oct 1997 20:00:43 -0700 Riley McDowall <mcm@intergate.bc.ca>
writes:

>The only way I can heel-toe reliably is with no shoe on my right foot!
The
>alignment of the pedals on sciroccos makes it necessary to get your foot
>sideways (for me anyway) so that the heel sits over the brake and you
tap
>the gas with the ball of your foot.  One of these days I'm going to put
a
>spacer on the gas pedal so that it sits even and on the same angle as
the
>clutch and brake pedals.
>
>   _____ __ __ __ _  _____ __  __ _____ _____  __ __ _  __ _____ __  
>__
>  / ___// // // /// / ___//  |/ // ___// // / / // /| |/ // ___//  |/ /
> / __/ / // //   / / __/ / /|  // /.-./ _  | / // / |   // __/ / /|  /
>/_/   /____//_/\_\/____//_/ |_//____//_/ |_|/____/  |__//____//_/ |_/


FUFNFNELN?

I didnt think so......

I had the exact same problem. That was the only way I could heel & Toe
was to contort my foot sideways. Not much control. Besides, im sorta a
softy in that I don't go barefoot very often anyways. 

When I installed my set of Lonza Pedals, I offset the brake pedal so that
it sits close to the gas pedal. (Any pedal covers will work.) I used the
folded tabs at first but within a few days they got loose and the pedal
would vibrate and annoy the shit out of me. I ended up drilling a few
small holes in the pedals and bolting them solidly to the pedals. No
problem since. 

Now I use the bigin' Toe & Littlin' Toe method almost all the time when
im driving. It takes awhile to get the feel for the pressure one pedal
needs to get the braking effect while still blipping the throttle to
match revs for the downshift. I find it most usefull on the autox course
or when im blowing the doors off of the Pottermans 16V GTi and gotta
brake hard because im supposed to be following him.... and he's turning! 
:)



              Shawn Meze
86' Jetta GLi           82' Scirocco GTi
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