Downshifting and driving habits...

[SkinnyJoint]

While you are braking you are downshifting.

How is heel-toeing going to help you keep your revs up? (uhm) You use the heel-toe method to select a lower gear, not to keep the same gear. Of course you can drag the brakes with your left foot and build boost with your right foot on the gas. Unless you're driving some of the German made turbo cars that cut boost when you are braking.

Of course you can drag the brakes with your left foot and build boost with your right foot on the gas. this is somthing that i was thinking about
lol not heel toe my bad... rofl. i was refering more to left foot braking... thx

 

[jred321]

in the new sport compact car there's a discussion of downshifting and how to do it properly, as well as heel-toe braking, double clutching, and basically downshifting while left foot braking at the same time (which means no clutch and getting the engine at exactly the right speed)

 

[Kodiac 3]

Well hell, cant we pretty much do whatever. Which parts of our engine are covered in the dealer warranty????

 

[SP33D]

can anybody else not bend enough to reach both gas and brake at the same time to heel-toe? i try while just sitting there and i can't really do it

Well I'm pretty tall and I can't bend my leg that way because it gets stuck under the steering wheel.. but I've learned to "heel-toe downshift".. using only the front of my foot.. like the left side of my foot is on the brake pedal, and the right side of my foot bends down to rev match as im braking. It's pretty much my only option.. but I'm starting to get pretty decent at it. Although I will admit I mess up every now and then and the car kinda jerks... but practice makes perfect I guess.