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Re: [MGS] MGA Heel & Toe

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Subject: Re: [MGS] MGA Heel & Toe
From: Max Heim <max_heim@sbcglobal.net>
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 10:11:30 -0700
Seems to me your brake pedal is too low. Do you need new pads & shoes?


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Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires

on 5/14/07 7:43 PM, Jim Juhas at james.f.juhas@snet.net wrote:

> Kelvin:  That's my technique as well.  But even the Paddy Hopkirk pedal
> won't solve this because the pedal ends up way higher than the brake.  I
> did some work on it tonight and reconfigured the pedal stop, then made a
> cable adjustment.  As long as I still can get full throttle, it may be
> set,  However, I need to widen the gas pedal or do the Hopkirk thing
> because my race shoes won't span the gap between brake and gas now.
> 
> Jim
> 
> Dodd, Kelvin wrote:
> 
>> James:
>> 
>> I use the Paddy Hopkirk type bolt on accelerator pedal.
>> 
>> Then use the ball of my foot on the brake and blip the throttle with the
>> edge of my foot by rolling the ankle sideways.
>> 
>> It's a bit different, but works for me.
>> 
>> Then again, my organ teacher used to hate my pedaling technique too.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Kelvin.




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