I do it for daily driving, when you keep at it you get really smooth, and it's rather practical. When done correctly, it won't cause any extra wear on your clutch.

Those of us, like me, with big-*** feet, don't need to use our heels, which is even easier. I just roll my foot, big toe on the brake, little toe on the gas.

 

My beater is a 4 year old 2000 Accord with just over 120,000 original miles on it. I still have the original clutch and it still feels pretty good. Hooks in a bit late and I think my synchros are going... but I do believe that having done heel/toe for daily driving has extended the life of my clutch...

 

I heel toe on the freeway whenever i double clutch to keep up with Vin in his black civic. "Damn that guy is fast."

But really. . . im learning

 

Now we know... and knowing is half the battle!

 

Double clutching is just retarded. You needed to do it for old cars without synchros but now its near worthless. Not to mention I blew out a hydraulic master clutch cylander in my old del sol trying to learn it. It didn't do a damn thing. I heard that if you want to double clutch and you try to do heel toe downshifting you have to double clutch twice while hitting the accelerator with your right foot. Thats just too much. Double clutching really doesen't do anything UNLIKE heel-toe downshifting.

 

Agreed. I find that people sometimes confuse the two terms. Kinda like the F&F movie. Hehe

But Rev matching and Heal and Toe are totally differnt things. Easy to learn AND not bad for your car (as long as you know what you're doing).

 

I don't heel-toe all the time because I'm not very good at it yet, but I will rev-match downshift without braking early so that I can use the compression to slow me down before I get to the light. Then I'll just use the brake a little to come to a complete stop. I usually won't go over 3000 RPM when rev matching to save gas.

 

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Guys, since rev matching is easy for me, does it mean I should be able to learn to heel-toe without much problems?

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Practice and ul get it no problem. Just do it every stop sign, every turn and whenever you can and you will learn fastest. It will probly be a little bumpy at the begining but just keep practicing you will get it eventualy and ur feet will be synchronized.

Bottom line its worth it.
my .02

 

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That's exactly what I do ever since I learned (all by myself, it just seemed to make sense) to rev match. So once I learn this, I'll probably do it on a regular basis too.

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Double Clutching and heel toe downshifting is not pointless. But when you just slam a into a lower gear at high speed you risk locking up your wheels seen it hapen at the track not fun

 

That's exactly backward - you're trying to control your braking precisely (on a track, you'd be at the lockup threshold), while you're just throwing an approximate blip at the throttle.

Kes

 

I heel-toe my CRV. I find it practical where I live because i live on a hill. Lots of turns. It's not just a show. Double clutching is, personally, just a way to pass up some A-hole on the freeway that JUST cut you off. ;p

 

must have a fast crv

 

Thank u guys for all the info now im ready to toast my clutch