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Old Sep 23, 2003 | 04:28 PM
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by krazik
I too bent my gas pedal to the right more.
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Old Sep 23, 2003 | 04:30 PM
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Get a light weight flywheel and ricks billet pulley's and rev matching is much easier.

I use my left big toe on the brake for the above mentioned H/T, trail braking, otherwise, why is your left foot just sitting there doing nothing? Why make it more complicated?

When in proper seat position I bang the top of my knee to the bottom of the dash board.

*deleted misunderstood comment* and poor choose of words on my part *was not meaning to make a steroetypical comment at all*
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Old Sep 23, 2003 | 04:32 PM
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If you don't believe it works

http://forums.s2ki.com/forums/showthread.p...threadid=151643

I am Jeremy G car #91 and my car is SC
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Old Sep 23, 2003 | 05:13 PM
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ERR!!! LEFT I bent it left.

heh

I used 2 crow bars. One as the pivot point where I want the gas arm to bend and the other at the bottom of the gas pedal to do the bending.

-Ry
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Old Sep 23, 2003 | 06:31 PM
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Originally posted by CMiS2K
When in proper seat position I bang the top of my knee to the bottom of the dash board. I am 5'11", Asian people are small compared to me. Their legs are as long as my arms.
Yao Ming....

Heel/toe is necessary skill to become an accomplished driver. just don't practice it in traffic.
slick rick is right. bondurant has a couple of paragraphs on the origins of the term heel/toe in his performance driving book.

BTW I'm 5'11" and half chinese....my father and his father broke 6'
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Old Sep 23, 2003 | 06:36 PM
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My problem is always releasing a bit of brake pressure when blipping the throttle.
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Old Sep 23, 2003 | 06:57 PM
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I am short in my family, I am hispanic and my grandpa is 6'2" and all of my uncles are 6'5". I was stating I am not tall and have this problem. I don't believe that heel toe is necessary to be an accomplished driver. That is why I posted the most recent results of our auto-x. I will call BS on anyone that wants to come out to TX and run at TMS.
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Old Sep 23, 2003 | 06:59 PM
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blipping the throttle is necessary when on the the track with a motorcycle, you can slow down using throttle and gear. Most accomplished bikers don't even use the rear brake. I don't believe it is necessary to do it the way that most of explain.

why would you not use your left foot if it is just sitting there doing nothing?
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Old Sep 23, 2003 | 07:02 PM
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Originally posted by CMiS2K
why would you not use your left foot if it is just sitting there doing nothing?
When I'm heel/toeing, my left foot is usually on the clutch!
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Old Sep 23, 2003 | 07:10 PM
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Originally posted by S2Thizzle
My problem is always releasing a bit of brake pressure when blipping the throttle.
When you are not hard on the brakes (as when you are on the streets) keeping a constant pressure on the brake is not as easy as when you are hard on the brake (threshold braking or ABS). So heel and toe is much easier where you need it, when driving hard like on the track.
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