heel/toe

[Oki Drifter]

you could always bend the brake pedal so it closer to the gas pedal, easier to do heel and toe

[my 1 88 u]

Timberland boots work best.

[SilverGhost]

i like my Macbeth shoes for driving......so you know, they are suede with laces and a thin flat sole...... i might try wrestling shoes...i want more feel....are racing shoes expensive?

[Misthael]

I just got a pair of Puma motorsport shoes about 2 weeks ago. They make just enough clearance for me to do toe/heel or heel/toe or whatever you want to call it. They're the same thing as the Puma/Sparco shoes, but mine aren't high top. Mine are low top. Only cost me $65 at Journeys. They kick @ss. I think the name is Race Cat. Check em out.

[SilverGhost]

a website i can get them off of?

*we dont have race shops around here*

[Misthael]

I got them at the mall in a normal shoe shop called Journeys. Journeys has a web site, but they don't have the Race Cat. You can sometimes find them on eBay. Or you could get the real racing shoes from sparco for over a hundred. Just find a Journeys and ask about them. That's the best I can do. Sorry.

[Pennyman]

shoes

Sorry, it looks like the topic is changing, hehe. I love my original black and white Converse hightops for driving. Great pedal feel with those.

[Jux2p0ze]

shift lock?

pardon my newb question then. shift locking would be the same effect as engine braking? If I go from say 3rd to 2nd at medium revs, I might hear a temporary screech but usually I get that all-too familiar lurch w/o rev-matching or blipping. I'm still green to manual transmissions and half of the confusion is figuring terminology to effect.

[pascalz28]

re

I use my heel for the break and i bend the ball/toe of my
foot forward angling my knees slightly up and right. If you
can't afford driving shoes just use something with a thin
sole.

[SilverGhost]

when you heel toe downshift, do you let the clutch out slowly, or fast (almost like dropping the clutch)?

[hachiroku-fc3s]

Jux, I wouldnt call that a newb question. You just explained shift lock. (for yourself and anybody else)

But as for the topic, I have to right side of foot to left side of foot. Freakin sz. 13. Oh and I hate my timbs for drifting. You gotta be kiddin 88. Ive pretty much givin up on a lot of shoes because you cant drive in em. Ive resorted to old school style. Kickin Phat Farms and Pumas, oh and don't forget the reebok classics.

[turbo23]

when u heal toe u let, u should be letting the clutch out normal speed unless u want to let it out slow for some reason, but the whole point is to match revs as quickly as possible, so their is no time to slowly let out the clutch when your coming into a corner very fast

[Chas]

http://www.turnfast.com/tech_driving..._heeltoe.lasso

go there.

[mranlet]

Just practice - I am about 6' and heel-toe wearing my skate shoes in my Honda CRX (for the doubters, it's going to get an EJ20 over the summer).

The pedals in my Honda are close enough so that I can be braking with my big toe and 1st small toe and be modulating the gas with the smallest 3 toes or ball of my foot. I just rock my foot to one side or another to give more gas or brake. If I'm braking hard then I usually use the very toes of my foot to brake and the ball of my foot to give throttle.

If the pedals in your Supra are too far apart to comfortably use one foot on two pedals, you can get a $10 set of pedals at a flea market or autozone and put them on so that the gap is smaller. If the pedals are REALLY far apart, you may need a set for an automatic.

If you're getting shift-lock, give it more gas when you let off the clutch.

-MR

[driftmunky]

how tall are you?