bennylenny88
bora bora dude
- Location
- Wigan, UK
- Car(s)
- Golf mk5 GTTDI 2.0
hmm.. what does heel toe do? as in what is it used for..
white rabbit said:It's great for less down time between moving your feet from pedal to pedal. 1/100ths of a second count on the race track
It's great for being able to balance the car under load situations.
bennylenny88 said:hmm.. what does heel toe do? as in what is it used for..
Harbinger said:Heel and toe is when you are braking and want to downshift at the same time in a manual. Your left foot is working the clutch for the downshift. Your right foot is brakeing, but you need to blip the throttle to match revs for the downshift. So , your right foot has the toes on the brake and the heel blipping the gas.
davesee said:everytime i attempt to do the left foot brake driving i almost give myself whiplash whenever i first apply the brake.. my left foot was still in the clutch pedal mode and really liked to shove on pedals quickly.
im sure someone else has had this problem!
the left foot eventually adjusts, but i suppose im never in the environment of using left foot braking all the time, when just the right foot would do. maybe if i took up racing.. :iono:
Nevada Smith said:Ok so the GTI is a FF that can't use FF (Front Engine-Front Wheel Drive) driving techniques. Great.
In the fifth gear car of the year award clip does tiff throw the GTI into oversteer around those corners by just shifting the weight of the car?
(ex. by just throwing the steering wheel quickly to the right before making a left turn?)
from the looks of that video they are using some other technique to induce oversteer because obviously VW prevents the masses to use left foot breaking because people don't even know how to drive cars.
(Can you imagine how good all those drivers were when there were only FR cars?)
So what the name of that technique, if its the one to induce oversteer?
Nurendra said:It is impossible mechanically as your throttle system is drive by wire. Thus if you try braking while still on the gas, the system defaults to braking.
Teknophreak said:Heel-toe works, it's when the car is in gear that the power will cut out. I can get away with about 1 second of left foot braking.