911 pedals

[execfin]

Does anyone have any experience with the adjustable gas pedal offered by Rennline? Presently the distance between by ultra firm brake pedal and my low gas pedal makes heel/toeing all but physically impossible to me. I'm thinking this adjustable pedal may be an option. Or can one of the other aftermarket billet pedals be mounted in such a way to minimize the brake/gas pedal distance?

[masraum]

The brake pedal is adjust able. There is a threaded rod behind the brake pedal. Are you trying to heel-n-toe when you are threshold braking or during normal driving?

[Chuck Moreland]

Your stock gas pedal is adjustable.

[execfin]

masraum, my need for heel/toeing thus far has extended only to fun/aggressive driving. My inability has deterred me from attempting any track days and thus threshold braking.

Chuck, first of all, I want to compliment you on Babbar. I saw it this past weekend in Ventura and it is awesome. I'm sure it much be a blast to drive. Secondly, my car is an '89 and I was told that the gas pedal was not adjustable. Was I misinformed?

[Slider79SC]

be warry of adjusting your brake pedal. I have seen on several cars when the brake pedal is adjusted that there is constant pressure going to the rear calipers. Strange, but once they were re-adjusted the problem went away?

[masraum]

I think you'll find that the pedals are much closer together if you are threshold braking. During aggressive street driving most people don't get on the brakes nearly as hard as you can, so the brake pedal doesn't end up as far down.

I have seen several people post here and one rennlist that they adjust their pedals for street driving, and then when they go to the track they find the pedals are too far the other direction for them to be usable at the track.

[ChrisBennet]

While both the gas and the brake pedal are "adjustable" be advised that there are problems with doing so that you may want to be aware of:
1. Adjusting pedal down with stock brakes. Ever had brake fade? Next time you do, you'll really appreciate that "extra" pedal travel. Oh, my you adjusted it out? Well there is always the wall to stop you...
2. Adjusting the gas pedal up requires the adjustment at the obvious pedal end but also requires an adjustment at the other end of the linkage. Failing to do so will cause the linkage to to bend (and stay bent) when you floor it.
Like Steve said, the pedals are about even when threshold braking at the track. With my size 8 1/2 shoes I had a hard time heel toeing so I had a wider gas pedal made.
-Chris

[twin plugged targa]

I had a wings engineering ' third foot' gas pedal attachment, on my old Carrera, that adjusted to make the gas pedal same height as the brake when depressed. It is more adjusable than the standard pedal and it attaches without any bolt holes so no drilling and you cann revert back to stock in a few minutes with a screwdriver!. It also has the heal/toe attachment at the bottom!.
It works!
Check adverts in Excellence for addresses or maybe Pelican stocks it?- if not they should!
rgds Ben

[CHILI]

I use the side of my foot and adjusted the brake pedel in a little to compensate. It's still to high, so I bought a used gas pedal that I'm going to cut the bottom (the portion that bolts to the floorboard) off and attach it to the existing gas pedal. I'm sure many have seen this on race cars. Basically it brings the gas pedal up about a half an inch without messin' with adjustments and or spending money on an adjustable gas pedal. I paid a whoping $1 for it! I will drill a hole and use a countersink bit too. Then I will use a pan head black machine screw with a nut on the backside of the stock pedal. Can be easliy removed for A/X ing, when like many of you said, you're way, way more on the brakes! Simple, easy and $1. Looks stock, too.

[CHILI]

Ok, so I finally got around to doing what I mentioned above. I ended up using wing-nuts on the back, so now I don't even need any tools to remove the "top" pedal for the next AX (whenever the hell that's gonna be with my schedule, but that's another story!). Keep in mind, as I stated above, I only paid $1 for the donor pedal. It's rough, but I just wanted to make sure my idea would work and I would like it. It did and I do! As a matter of fact, I cranked up the brake pedal a hair! I can heal-toe around town, and remove it for heal towing (with serious brake applied) during AX ing. Here are some pics of the process...

I cut away the rubber using an exacto knife, then cut the metal of the pedal off with a dremal. Then I drilled two holes in both pedals and used wing-nuts on the back. Put it back in and workin' great! Looks stock, too.

[CHILI]

Here it is installed. Please excuse the messy interior!

[CHILI]

Ok, now I think I have the hang of this re-sizing thing. Maybe this interior shot will be better.