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nepali 02-19-2013 03:47 PM

You all suck...I drive my manual with my right foot only.

houkouonchi 02-19-2013 05:13 PM

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Originally Posted by nepali (Post 2174124)
You all suck...I drive my manual with my right foot only.

Heh.. I thought about (as a joke) putting an option for driving with one foot on a manual transmission =). I can do it except starting out in first... that would be really hard to do (although not impossible) with one foot. Starting would be very slow though.

nogoodname 02-19-2013 05:32 PM

Couldn't select more than one but I went with option 2 for auto driving.

Tazicon 02-19-2013 05:40 PM

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Originally Posted by homeryansta (Post 2169775)
I've never heard of a person using 2 feet driving an auto. wadafuq?

Some people have never taken drivers education.......

RonRizz 02-19-2013 07:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Tazicon (Post 2174270)
Some people have never taken drivers education.......

Lol some people just don't need it! j/k

forza370z 02-19-2013 07:23 PM

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Originally Posted by CDepp (Post 2171165)
:icon18:

Left foot brakers are kissing their sisters.

Then people went "Euro Trip" are left foot brakers.:icon17:

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Originally Posted by CDepp (Post 2171195)
Where do you put your right foot in an emergency or collision? Hovering over the accelerator, or on it, during impact?

:roflpuke2:

None of above... I use my right foot kick my gf out of the passenger side window to save her life in an emergency or collission...

CDepp 02-19-2013 07:56 PM

Public notice: be aware of women flying around at the scene of an accident.

Hotrodz 02-19-2013 08:13 PM

My brother got me left foot braking while playing Forza. It took a little practice, but it's not that difficult. I have even done it in my Nismo. The trick is to down shift early otherwise you are totally FUBAR. Yep and if I panic its not pretty. I think if I didn't have to pay for my car, tires and brakes....well I'd be a real race car driver and left foot brake all the time!

I don't see anything wrong with it it's no kind of like heal toeing in a MT. All three pedals being used at once. I'm thinking, if you can't left foot break don't try heal toeing!! Just saying!

CDepp 02-19-2013 08:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Hotrodz (Post 2174621)
My brother got me left foot braking while playing Forza. It took a little practice, but it's not that difficult. I have even done it in my Nismo. The trick is to down shift early otherwise you are totally FUBAR. Yep and if I panic its not pretty. I think if I didn't have to pay for my car, tires and brakes....well I'd be a real race car driver and left foot brake all the time!

I don't see anything wrong with it it's no kind of like heal toeing in a MT. All three pedals being used at once. I'm thinking, if you can't left foot break don't try heal toeing!! Just saying!

:shakes head:
I believe you are mistaken. Toe and heel is nothing like left foot braking. Toe and heel is all right foot on both the brake and accelerator, left on the clutch. It's a method of double declutch shifting while using all three pedals at once.

Luckily, you have a Nismo that already accomplishes what toe and heel works to perform: 'blipping' the accelerator while decreasing speed to downshift and match the speed to your gear for coming our of a corner.

CDepp 02-19-2013 08:31 PM

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Originally Posted by houkouonchi (Post 2174225)
Heh.. I thought about (as a joke) putting an option for driving with one foot on a manual transmission =). I can do it except starting out in first... that would be really hard to do (although not impossible) with one foot. Starting would be very slow though.

When my CSC went out in my Integra GS-R, I could actually get the RPMs low enough to get into first and skip back up to speed. The technique, while sounding crazy, would be to come to stop in neutral (else the car would stall) and rev it up to about 4K, and on the down-choke, I would dump the AC to high. I could get it down to about 400RPM and grind it into 1st with a open door and a kick of the leg. In traffic, I would just force it to stall in 1st and use the starter to get it rolling. :eekdance:

Amazingly, I got 254,800+ miles on it before it was sold. :icon14:

Only had to replace the CSC, throwout bearing, and starter once.

Hotrodz 02-19-2013 08:50 PM

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Originally Posted by CDepp (Post 2174627)
:shakes head:
I believe you are mistaken. Toe and heel is nothing like left foot braking. Toe and heel is all right foot on both the brake and accelerator, left on the clutch. It's a method of double declutch shifting while using all three pedals at once.

Luckily, you have a Nismo that already accomplishes what toe and heel works to perform: 'blipping' the accelerator while decreasing speed to downshift and match the speed to your gear for coming our of a corner.

I not saying its totally the same, but the whole deal is about coordination and control. The design or placement of the pedal are done because most people are right handed and have little or no coordination with their left hand or foot. It all goes back to left handed equals sinister or wrong! However, if you grow up knowing only how to left foot brake you would not know that it was "wrong."

So if you can't dribble a basket ball with your left hand, switch hit or are otherwise ambidextrous it probably not a smart move. I played college baseball with a guy that pitched both games in double header, one right handed and the other left and won both of them to get his team to the 5A CIF championship So Cal. I doubt that he would have a problem left foot braking!

Zenmaster 02-19-2013 08:53 PM

Driving auto with two feet?
Driving auto?
what are you a girl or something?

b1adesofcha0s 02-19-2013 08:58 PM

I've heard of people slamming their foot on the dead pedal in an auto trying to press the clutch pedal, but never driving an auto with 2 feet. I can see the benefits of it on the track. Like with a lot of things, I think it comes down to execution more than anything else. The better option is the one you feel more comfortable with. If you can do both effectively, then just do what you feel like doing.

Personally the only time I ever use both feet in my auto is when I'm launching at the drag strip. Other than that it's just the right foot for me.

CDepp 02-19-2013 09:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Hotrodz (Post 2174672)
I not saying its totally the same, but the whole deal is about coordination and control. The design or placement of the pedal are done because most people are right handed and have little or no coordination with their left hand or foot. It all goes back to left handed equals sinister or wrong! However, if you grow up knowing only how to left foot brake you would not know that it was "wrong."

So if you can't dribble a basket ball with your left hand, switch hit or are otherwise ambidextrous it probably not a smart move. I played college baseball with a guy that pitched both games in double header, one right handed and the other left and won both of them to get his team to the 5A CIF championship So Cal. I doubt that he would have a problem left foot braking!

Well, then left foot braking is like juggling and eating with chopsticks?

:icon14:

Guess my beef is with the "if you can't left-foot brake, don't try toe and heeling!!!" part really.
The usage is nothing the same. Toe and heel is completely slowing the car without any acceleration going on, only rev-matching the engine for a lower gear with the clutch disengaged. As long as the clutch pedal is on the floor, there is no chance of both the car trying to go forward and stop simultaneously where left foot braking can leave a person.

Hotrodz 02-19-2013 09:27 PM

No argument from me. I'm just saying you gotta have skills for either. :eekdance:


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