gas pedal spring

p8ntman442 · Post by **p8ntman442** » Sun Apr 08, 2007 8:55 pm

I broke mine last night, what a PITA, im so used to heel and toing the car that now that the pedal is at half mast I almost stall out sometimes.

anyone had this happen to them?

befarrer · Post by **befarrer** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 3:00 pm

I bent my gas pedal on saturday. I only got maybe 20% throttle, and the gas pedal was about 1 foot behind the brake pedal. A quick yank in the vice fixed it. And now I get 100% throttle, where the last 2 years, I have only gotten 80% from the pedal being bent previously.

Series8217 · Post by **Series8217** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 4:07 pm

yeah this happened to me on my silver car. pretty annoying.

how were you heel/toeing a fiero to begin with? the pedals are just all wrong..

AntiCooter · Post by **AntiCooter** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 4:43 pm

Series8217 wrote:how were you heel/toeing a fiero to begin with? the pedals are just all wrong..

Little feet?

p8ntman442 · Post by **p8ntman442** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 4:54 pm

nope, size 13.5 shoes, so not little feet.

The Dark Side of Will · Mon Apr 09, 2007 5:58 pm

Heel on the brake, toe on the gas? I still don't get it. I have 13's and it doesn't work for me.

p8ntman442 · Post by **p8ntman442** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 7:00 pm

umm, I meant pivoting my foot with my heel on the floor, maybee im not familiar with the real definition of heel-toe.

whoops.

whipped · Post by **whipped** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 8:32 pm

heel-toe = foot on brake and gas simultaneously, so you can blip the throttle during a downshift while braking

Series8217 · Post by **Series8217** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 9:23 pm

p8ntman442 wrote:umm, I meant pivoting my foot with my heel on the floor, maybee im not familiar with the real definition of heel-toe.

whoops.

that's called using the gas pedal.

Fastback86 · Post by **Fastback86** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 4:16 am

The pedal set up sucks, but I can manage by putting my foot on the brake and pivoting it to blip the gas with my heel. Or just roll my ankle to the right so I'm pushing on the edge of the brake pedal and using the opposite side of my foot to blip the gas. Only do that when I'm not driving too aggressively, don't want my foot to slip off the brake at a bad time.

Series8217 · Post by **Series8217** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 4:38 am

Fastback86 wrote:The pedal set up sucks, but I can manage by putting my foot on the brake and pivoting it to blip the gas with my heel.

Wha? My pedal doesn't go down that far... (to use my heel on the gas)

The Dark Side of Will · Tue Apr 10, 2007 2:13 pm

p8ntman442 wrote:umm, I meant pivoting my foot with my heel on the floor, maybee im not familiar with the real definition of heel-toe.

whoops.

Heel-Toe means using the ball of your foot on the brake to slow for a turn while you use the heel of your foot on the throttle to bring the RPM up to rev match the accompanying downshift. It's not possible with the stock Fiero pedal position... although I have been thinking about putting a 2-3" thick block of wood on my gas pedal to see if I can do it that way.

Fastback86 · Post by **Fastback86** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 4:34 pm

I dunno, maybe my pedals are messed up, maybe I have weird feet. It doesn't work great, but I can do it.

Jinxmutt · Post by **Jinxmutt** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 4:47 pm

I can't heel-toe, but I can use the ball of my foot on the brake and roll my ankle over so the outside of my foot/little toe reach down to the gas. Basically, my foot is wide enough to press both at the same time.

'bout the best I can manage in a fiero