How To Heel Toe downshift
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@surfordie82 even though I'm not the best person to answer you question (not very much experience with the technique) I'll do it anyway. you should always strive to get it perfect, practice and practice. but it's a hard thing to do and it is not like a few rpm's will throw you off the road.
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Like I understand double clutching, but does it matter if you give it a little too much gas? I mean the point is to raise the revs to where they are gonna be when u go to the lower gear but how often are u gonna be THAT precise?
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@nzman101 it depends on how your pedals are setup ..
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"I'm going to: Clutch in..."
Wrong!
SUPERFAIL!!!
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@vdn17 just makes downshifting while braking smoother, if you're in a fast rear wheel drive car and brake heavily and just shift a gear, your transmission can lock the rear wheels meaning you lose control of the car, this problem is made worse if braking round a corner on a track etc :)
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i don't know what this acheives...?
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New Balance product placement?
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"If you were a passenger in the car.. (which you almost are).. you would have noticed"
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isnt that actually toe-toe downshifting? haha its no big but the whole reason its called heel-toe is cause youe heel is on the break and toe is on the gas... but its o big you just used toe for both. lol
Heel toe downshift is easier said than done. You need to blip the throttle JUST RIGHT so as to not over-rev or under-rev. It may seem (at least to me) that heel toe is easier when you're racing and are in the high-rev zone as you can just blip the throttle down HARD and you can almost always get the rev-matches down perfectly. If you're doing it on normal streets driving at like 3k rpm and you want to heel toe, it's going to be harder...
faYte0607 1 year ago 6
every American I have seen heel toe sifting uses the ball of their feet to do both the braking and tapping the accelerator. But every Japanese person I've seen do it have tapped the accelerator with their heel, which I think looks a bit cooler lol
nzman101 7 months ago 4