Heal-Toe/Pedal Adjustment

[Doug MacKenzie]

I have relatively small feet (8-1/2D). I find it difficult to heal-toe my Boxster because, unless I rotate my foot to a 45 degree angle, my foot jams between the brake and the accellerator. If the brake pedal were adjusted to be lower, I might have better luck with the ball of my right foot on the brake and my little toe on the accellerator.

Does anyone else have this problem? If so, how've you solved it.

I've seen aluminum pedals to replace the stock. It looks like the accellerator on the replacement pedal is wider - does this help?

Doug

[Tom M (Sunol, CA)]

The pedal height isn't really the problem - at least for me. If you're on the track then one tends to threshold brake and the pedal heights are just perfect. Driving around on the streets I don't tend to brake anywhere as hard as when I'm on the track. Except of course when a deer darts out in front of me :D

Dan just installed some aftermarket pedals. I'm sure he'll be posting pics pretty soon along with a full story on how well they work.

'00 S MBK/NBL/BLK

[scott in redwood city]

Get a good pedal set. Had the same problem. Talk to Dan@aol.com - he know where to get them.

[SfSF]

I've only been practicing for a few weeks, and I just stumbled on a way that makes it easy to reach both pedals while also being easier to control the rpms.

I put my foot at a 45 degree angle toward the accelerator. I put the inside edge of my foot (just below the ball) on the top right corner of the brake pedal so that my toes are at the top portion of the accelerator.

This immediately increased my consistency of being able to blip. When I first tried, I was trying to roll my foot toward the acclerator with the ball on the edge of the brake and the outside of my foot on the gas. This was very hard to get. About 9 of 10 tries, I wouldn't get any gas at all. And that one out of 10 was usually uncontrolled and overreved.

But the way I am now doing it also helps raise the rpms with control since I'm touching the top of the gas pedal. The top has to travel the greatest distance to achieve the same amount of throttle response so it has been much easier to modulate.

I started practicing by downshifting to 2nd each time I was stopping. (Even if it was just to stop at a traffic light.) To vary the practices, I'll sometimes try to raise the rpms to 2k and engage 2nd at 20mph and other times I'll try to raise the rpms to 3k and engage at 30mph. After about 3 or 4 drives I was getting the rpm matched successfully 50% of the time.

I'm still not the quickest. But to be honest, I don't find it all that easy to match rpms even when I'm not hal and toe'ing. If I try to go too fast, I almost always overrev.

Hope this helps.