Just wondering how many of you 6mt drivers know how do it correctly. I've been practicing from time to time, but can't seem to do it smoothly or make it second nature. If anyone's got some good tips on how to heel and toe please post them!

 

I'd watch the japanese drift videos that have the dual screen shots. Thats how i've been able to watch how they do it going in and out of a curve and whatnot.
just a suggestion.

 

I toe heel comfortably. i don't know how people heel toe comfortably.

 

all the time. imho, if you can't heel and toe without thinking, you need
more pratice or need to move onto AT cars.

the pedal on the G35C (aluminum) isn't the best. i changed the gas pedal
to a different shaped one with a little lip on the bottom left. if you're at
the track, the stock pedal will work fine because you brake hard, but for
street the pedal design (or the brake pedal position) is not good.

 

Oh yeah, because heel and toe downshifting is SO important during everyday driving!

I'm actually more comfortable placing my foot half on the brake pedal, and then just rolling it to the right to blip the throttle. To me this is more comfortable than traditional heel and toe.

 

With my size 13's, that's the way I have to do it too. In terms of trying to match rpm's, there's only one way to get better, practice, practice, practice!

 

I have 13's also and that's the only way I can do it. When the Go Pedal was hinged from the floor (many years ago), it was easy to heel/toe it. With it off the floor now, it's not so easy. I have thought of moving the Go Pedal closer to the brake, but it might not be too safe.

 

I learned to drive stick on my G. I now have close to 15,000 miles. I've been "heel toe"-ing at around 5,000 miles (when necessary or needed) and it took me up until approximately 10,000 miles to completely get it down with no hesitation or jerking. I learned from the Japanese Best Motoring videos. I'd say it's a bit tougher to learn when to put it in gear while you're matching the revs than doing the actual toe and heel process.

I'd suggest going to http://www.youtube.com or http://video.google.com and do a search for "best motoring" and watch those video clips. You can learn a lot just from watching them drive. Good luck.

 

On the street, it's almost useless, I usually double clutch/match rev before coming to a stop depending on the distance. On the roadcourse?...it's second nature.

 

i heel toe by instinct because i learned stick on a bmw 2002 (1971) and there was no synchro's so i always had to match the gears.

i fin doing it in the G is hard because the gas sits a bit farther back than the otehr pedals, u need to get used to it.

another trick u can do is instead of heel toe, u can use the left part of ur right foot to feather the brakes while u blip the gas with the right side of your foot (this works when i wear my tennis shoes which are wide)

 

Great info guys! I was trying to heel-toe on the way to work tonight and my foot had cramps from trying to heel the gas

 

It's a lot easier to heel toe in the G at the track when you're braking hard. In daily driving, the gas pedal is a little far.

Actually, when I first hit the track with my old civic I used the brake pedal from an auto and just filed down the left side of it so that it wouldn't get in the way of the clutch pedal. It was a little "ghetto" looking but it worked really well.

 

this is exactly how i do it when street driving. But I noticed one problem, sometimes when attempting to do an emergency braking while u're trying to heel toe with that method, u'll have one foot on both pedals so you'll be gassing it and braking at the same time cause obviously u can't take your foot off the brake pedal when you're braking hard.

 

Bingo!

 

one quick question...what is this for? whats the big advantage of this process? launching? i can launch just perfectly fine feathering the clutch. i dont understand. someone please elaborate.