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Old Mar 12, 2006 | 03:56 PM
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What does this poor fat girl have anything to do with the topic at hand? Pretty damn funny, though...

Her mom must have just served her a bucket of frosted flakes...
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Old Mar 12, 2006 | 04:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Granger968
I just bought a 350Z Track. Previous cars were 92 jetta, 93 impreza and 2003 Mazdaspeed protege. My Z is the first car that I have with pedals too far apart to heel-toe properly. It can be done, but the gap between the pedals is quite wide and I wouldn't want the bad surprise of having my foot slip from the brake pedal while trying to blip the throttle.

Have any of you guys put change your pedals for wider ones? How wide are the Nismo pedals?

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Old Mar 12, 2006 | 05:05 PM
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I heel toe just because it sounds cool into a left or right turn. Gotta love loud and obnoxious exhausts. I also rev-match downshift at every stop.
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Old Mar 12, 2006 | 06:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Granger968
I just bought a 350Z Track. Previous cars were 92 jetta, 93 impreza and 2003 Mazdaspeed protege. My Z is the first car that I have with pedals too far apart to heel-toe properly. It can be done, but the gap between the pedals is quite wide and I wouldn't want the bad surprise of having my foot slip from the brake pedal while trying to blip the throttle.

Have any of you guys put change your pedals for wider ones? How wide are the Nismo pedals?

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just practice without the pedal covers.. go drive a mustang, then you'll appreciate your car more so.
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Old Mar 13, 2006 | 12:21 AM
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Originally Posted by Granger968
I just bought a 350Z Track. Previous cars were 92 jetta, 93 impreza and 2003 Mazdaspeed protege. My Z is the first car that I have with pedals too far apart to heel-toe properly. It can be done, but the gap between the pedals is quite wide and I wouldn't want the bad surprise of having my foot slip from the brake pedal while trying to blip the throttle.

Have any of you guys put change your pedals for wider ones? How wide are the Nismo pedals?

Thanks!
Drive barefoot. Flare your toes: big toe brake, pinky toe accelerator
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Old Mar 13, 2006 | 06:12 AM
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Originally Posted by Jason@Performance
I kinda roll my foot to the side...



Is Napoleon Dynamite driving this car? J/K
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Old Mar 13, 2006 | 01:12 PM
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Good stuff. I'm still practicing this. I'm getting somewhat better.
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Old Mar 13, 2006 | 04:18 PM
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If you have a really nice exhaust system nothing sounds better IMO than rev matching, sometimes I'll do it approching a stoplight nothing sounds racier.
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Old Mar 13, 2006 | 04:20 PM
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its kinda hard to Heel Toe when you wear a size 12...
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Old Mar 13, 2006 | 09:49 PM
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Originally Posted by davidv
that's just disturbing!
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Old Mar 14, 2006 | 05:26 AM
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Originally Posted by EvL350Z
its kinda hard to Heel Toe when you wear a size 12...

That's not the issue, it's when you have a EEE wide foot like me that makes it scary.. sometimes I get lazy and I end up pushing the brake and gas at the same time
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Old Mar 14, 2006 | 06:22 AM
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Originally Posted by Jason@Performance
I kinda roll my foot to the side...



aye... people kept telling me to use the foot roll method, but i think a true heel toe is best described as something tsuchiya does in the best motoring touge videos...
its more of a circular motion with the heel blipping the accerlerator...
i use the old school real heel-toe method and it works find imo...
but it only applies to asian people
people with BIG and WIDE feet like americans wearing size 14 EEEE sneakers cant do it...

here is a video of tsuchiya doing the touge

http://www.g-attack.com/videos/BestM...eShowdown2.asf

featuring...

Hachiroku VS. Skyline R34 GT-R
ITR VS. S14 Silvia
MR-S VS. S15 Silvia

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Old Mar 14, 2006 | 07:01 AM
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Im Asian and I have EEE wide feet.

Just blip it, do what it takes to position your foot so that you dont need to let off the brakes as you are braking. If you roll it, invert it, pivot it, or if you got the crazy skills to "O'Neil" it, do it.

Btw, O'Neil shifting is left-foot-braking with a downshift.. try that suckas.
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Old Mar 14, 2006 | 07:04 AM
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Originally Posted by xenonk
Im Asian and I have EEE wide feet.

Just blip it, do what it takes to position your foot so that you dont need to let off the brakes as you are braking. If you roll it, invert it, pivot it, or if you got the crazy skills to "O'Neil" it, do it.

Btw, O'Neil shifting is left-foot-braking with a downshift.. try that suckas.
if you roll your foot then it should be called "Foot-Roll" shifting...
a proper heel-toe is hard on the brakes and then roll your ankle...
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Old Mar 14, 2006 | 07:56 AM
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Wait until the 3F3F ricers find this how-to... I'm staying off the streets. They'll be trying to take 10mph turns at 60, just to heel-toe.
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Old Mar 14, 2006 | 08:24 AM
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Originally Posted by Silkk
Wait until the 3F3F ricers find this how-to... I'm staying off the streets. They'll be trying to take 10mph turns at 60, just to heel-toe.

dont worry, they'll try to do heel & toe with automatics.
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Old Mar 14, 2006 | 10:06 AM
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Old Mar 14, 2006 | 10:14 AM
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Originally Posted by ArCtM

They might evolutionize the practice of left foot braking and PWN3D you with just using 1 foot instead of using two feet to do it..

"I got chu FOO!"

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Old Mar 14, 2006 | 11:24 AM
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I try to switch from accelerator to brake fast while clutching and shifting to simulate the same effect of heel toe. Just blip the throttle quick and back to brake fast. Hard to do all the time though.
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Old Mar 14, 2006 | 11:42 AM
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Originally Posted by dragon11689
I try to switch from accelerator to brake fast while clutching and shifting to simulate the same effect of heel toe. Just blip the throttle quick and back to brake fast. Hard to do all the time though.
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