My aluminum pedals arrived today. There are rubber nubs on all the pedals except for the gas pedal, which just has holes in it. This is the way it looks at the install page too:

http://www.smiley.net/g35/pedals.htm

Is this the way it's supposed to be? I'm wondering how that's going to work during the winter when I get in the car after walking across a parking lot full of snow. Isn't it likely my right foot is going to slip off the pedal while accelerating. Anyone else in the snowbelt have these without the rubber nubs?


2004 G35 6MTs Diamond Graphite/Graphite
New Hampshire

 

No nubs is normal - that's just the way it is. As far as snow, well being from California I only see snow if I go skiing - and I wouldn't take my G for that.

G35 6MT/DG/Fully Loaded
[i]HyperGround Kit
350Z intake duct
K&N drop-in
Crawford v5 Plenum
Aluminum pedals
50%-35% smoke tint

 

I just came from Missouri winter with them on. No problems. That said, because coupes don't like snow, I drove the I30 mostly.

 

Someone posted on another forum that there are no nubs on the gas for safety reasons - don't want your foot to stick to the gas, but you do want it to stick to the brake and clutch. Makes sense.

BTW - I put these on yesterday - humidity 90%. What a PIA - even using a heat gun to warm up the brake and clutch it was a real struggle to get them on. Burned my arm on my worklight and lost the gas pedal clip when I pulled my arm away, (it's got to be somewhere in the car but can't be found). I had to cut the clip off the stock gas pedal and use that. I'll order the correct part next week.

The aluminum pedals look great though, a nice contrast with the graphite interior. I think all 6MTs (coupe and sedan) should come with these stock.

It was so muggy you could cut the air with a knife. I was wearing a ball cap. The measure of how much you're sweating is how far down the bill from the crown the sweat goes - yesterday it reached the tip. The whole bill was wet.

2004 G35 6MTs Diamond Graphite/Graphite
New Hampshire

 

cut the numbs off your stock foot rest and glue them in with crazy glue. Worked like a charm.

 

Looking to get a set for Automatic pedals. All the DIY instructions I found all link to broken sites

I am thinking of buying these:

Good choices?


The page said custom fitting would be required for the eBrake pedal? What would that mean to a noob such as myself?

Any advice would be helpful,
Thanks

 

Reason for no nubs on the gas pedal, you're foot won't slip off unlike the brake/clutch pedals if you shoes are wet.....logic!
Gary

 

Resurrecting a 5 month old thread here fellas. Regarding the lack of rubber nubs on the gas pedal:
If you've ever driven a vehicle with bare feet, you'll notice that the pedal slides along your foot as you push it down if your heel is planted on the floor and you're using your ankle to move your foot. The gas pedal is on a fulcrum and your heel is another fulcrum. Envision your foot being welded to the gas pedal and trying to push it down with the fulcrum action of your foot, it wouldn't work and you'd have to use your whole leg as the lever instead. So, from that, we can see that the more traction you have on the gas pedal, the harder it would be to push the pedal(we're talking about being MINIMALLY harder, but on a 10 hour road trip or 2 hours in stop and go traffic, you'd come away wanting a smooth pedal, though you probably wouldn't know it unless you tried it directly afterwards).

 

The engineer strikes before midnight on a 9 year old thread. Thanks for the explanation bud that clears things up for me.

 

Haha, I just knew the OP must have been frantically checking his email for a decade straight, waiting for a reply.

 

Its always better with no rubber down there,
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Awesome face.

 

Manufacturers purposely made the gas pedal smooth because the G35 is a high performance car. With a smooth gas pedal you can achive perfect heel-toe technique in da twisties.