I thought I would share. If you are doing a road course or just attacking an onramp and want to match revs on downshifting and don't like the feel of heel toe this is another way.

Lift off the gas after accelerating, the change in momentum will put the car into a neutral state between acceleration and deceleration, at that moment put the shifter into neutral, it will fall right in without any effort, if you have to force it you are not doing it right. Use your left foot to do the braking and blip the throttle with your right foot. Gently push the shifter against the next gear, it will fall in with very little effort when the rpms fall and match the engine speed. If you don't blip high enough it will never go in and you need to blip the throttle again or use the clutch when you are done braking. Enjoy.

This can cause damage if done improperly and maybe even if done properly, it doesn’t feel to me like it hurts the car (no grinding, bucking etc...) so I do it, others will surely disagree.

 

You were watching the GT series on ESPN weren't you?

 

+1^^^^

 

I have been doing it for a while. Picked it up from Nascar and double clutching (different technique) in a Skip Barber car actually.

 

If done right, it won't cause much damage, but if you do it often it's likely to wear out your synchros. Kinda cool to try though.

 

You have to practice your left foot brake first because if you press too hard you may slide and that **** is not cool.... and pratice in slow speeds first

 

actually if done properly it WONT damage your synchros. When the engines speed is just right for particular gear, the synchros dont need to do any work. Your basically doing all the work for them ie. not damaging/wearing them.

 

Learn to heal toe please you may have to bend the gas pedal closer to the brake first. What you describe is asking for trouble left foot braking is to keep the turbo spooled in a turn and should be done without shifting or after downshifting.

 

That's not what we are talking about.

 

left foot braking is great! but it is not a must. it is more of a preference. the fastest of drivers dabble in both. Also I do not believe that is exactly what its used for. I could be wrong though. I always thought it was to cut down the time between changing your feet from the go pedal to the stop pedal. I know I have seen f challenge cars that have f1 trans that use there left for brakes and there right for go

 

Im def. not coordinated enough to pull that off

 

Are you doing this on upshift or downshift and what does this no clutch method accomplish anyway?

 

i thought it was used to get rid of some understeer

 

yeahh but that is if you in fact keep the foot on the accelerator too shifting the weight to the front of the car.....

 

I can upshift without the clutch but it takes longer because you have to wait for the rpm's to drop. I only do it when I'm being lazy and because it's fun.

Left foot braking is for... braking and since you are braking you are also sometimes downshifting. More so on a rear wheel drive car than awd using only the clutch to downshift can unsettle the car because the clutch introduces additional braking force that you can't control, let it out fast enough on rwd and it will momentarily lock the back tires and send you spinnning in a turn. Anyway, AWD or not I still find it smoother (and easier on my clutch) to match revs in my Evo when downshifting, and it's fun. You can do this by either the heel toe method, toe of right foot on brake, heel blips throttle, left foot works clutch or the left foot brake method without clutch that I explained before. What does it accomplish? A smoother shift that doesn't unbalance the car. Absolutely Necesarry? No. Fun, Yes.