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Ewwwwwww, goofyfoot gas pedal in EMMA? I think NOT. I'd feel like I was driving some 17 year old's Honda! I'll work on the heel-toe thing next time I take her out. I can figure something out!
 
It is pretty modified..but not too crazy..

Carb is the weber 38/38. Exhaust is the CB manifold Jet-hot ceramic coated.
Head was modified (port/polished). high lift roller rockers, solid spacers, oversized 1 3/4" gas flowed intake and oversized exhaust valves...Heavy duty double springs, crane pushrods, tuftrided lifters, Crane fast street cam. Bored .030 AE pistons. lightened flywheel (11#), double row timing chain, high volume oil pump, free flow stainless exhaust, comp clutch and pressure plate, oversized racing al. radiator, oil cooler, etc...just to make a short list /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

About doubled the hp from the stock motor that was in the car. I have the dyno sheets to prove it too. Just about what the Moss Supercharged demo car gets...but normally aspirated. But cost a lot more than the SC though /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif


Here are some of the finished pics:
engine pictures
some more earlier pics:
engine/head

Quite a lot of fun to drive....

Paul


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Phantom, I'd like to know how your engine is raced prepped. 6500+, that puts a smile on my face.

For me it depends on mood, 4500 - 5000 if I'm feelin frisky, 3000-3500 if I'm just off to the store or summthin. Downshifting is just a natural thing and I've not really ever thought about it. I can't remeber the last time I owned a car with an automatic.

The other day, I pushed my 91 S-10 in second gear to see how far she would wind up (no tach) and reved her to the gas cutoff point, man that was odd, wont do it again. It's a work truck and I typically shift a little lower when I drive her as compared to the B.

-D.

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No-no-nooononooo....Call Moss Motors and ask 'em if they have any "Paddy Hopkirk" gas pedal extensions.

Really. Tell 'em a friend got one a couple years ago from 'em, and you want one!

(This is NOT like sending the newbie orderly up to OB/Gyn. to ask the head nurse for a fallopian tube!)
 
I keep hearing about these Paddy Hopkirk pedals.... I've never seen one though... anyone have pics? Does it just make the stock gas pedal longer? A longer pedal sure would make heel-toe easier
 
Yup. I'll post a photo tomorrow morning. I have posession of the camera AND the cable ATM /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
lol
 
I drive a RHD MGB GT as a daily driver. Every time I get into my wife's modern sedan, I turn on the windshield wipers instead of the turn signal. It's really embarassing! Then I switch to the LHD MGB and I reach for a turn stalk that isn't there. Then I get into the MGA and same thing - the turn signal switch is on the dash. Then the TC has it on the opposite side of the dash. And the YB has it in the middle! Then there's reaching for the shift lever on the wrong side of the car as well. I must look like a real tool for the first ten minutes of driving any of our cars!
 
I go by sound and feel. Just never lug it and shift down when I pour the power to it. When I feel playful I shift down coming to a stop, otherwise just coast in (never in neutral). Of course I am just a newbie at driving sport cars as I only started with my TD in 53 and have never felt the need to race or pretend to race.

Guinn.
 
Getting back to shift points, I go by sound and feel. Just never lug it and shift down when I pour the power to it. When I feel playful I shift down coming to a stop, otherwise just coast in (never in neutral). /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/nonono.gif

Guinn.
 
First let me make something clear...you brake BEFORE turns! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif

That being said, I use a different method of heel and toe...do to long legs and large splayed feet, I find it more accomodating to use my heel on the brake (actually the arch of my foot) and my toes on the gas. This was taught to me in racing school by a six-foot eleven-inch instructor while learning to drive Midget sprint cars. Works very well in the B too, as it has in most cars, the exception being early model MOPARs with those darm touchy power brake /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif

Bruce /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cheers.gif
 
I'm with Bruce on the heel toe method. I learned a long time ago to heel the brake and toe the gas. I've tried it the more traditional way but can't finesse the accelerator with my heel like I can with the toes. I also double clutch the turns for some reason. Learned to do this with my 69 Mustang Mach I when I was 16. One of the great things my Granddad (of all people) taught me...lol
JC
 
I guess I had never heard of heel and toe until now. I'm still fuzzy on what double clutching is about too, what is that for? As far as shifting, I try to keep it under 4000 on both the Midget and CR-V. As far as downshifting, I just learned to gently let out the clutch, but I have wondered how much undue wear that puts on the clutch. My '97 Saturn's clutch was still going strong after 128,000 miles, so I'm guessing either it had a sturdy clutch or I was gentle enough with it. What gets confusing is when I've been driving the Midget for too long and I try to find reverse in the Honda. More than once I've gotten 5th instead! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif
 
And here's Paddy's pedal extension.
 
Hi. I hope I don't repeat what someone else might have already said as I didn't go through all of the posts in this thread. But, I'd comment that you should be sure that your tach is working properly? I have had mine, on occasion, whack out on me whereby it 'registers' about double what I believe it to actually be at any time from idle up to highway speed. Just an idea. Jim.
 
I usually shift at 3K to 3.5K. If I'm really driving up to 4.5K. I've only had this car for a few months so I haven't reved it over 4.5.
 
The way I learned was to get good at single declutching and then try to master double declutching. There will always be a jerk when the input shaft & lay gear spool up unless you blip with the car in neutral with the clutch pedal up ( foot off ). Jaybird, there are lots of little spinny things in the gearbox that must be spun in perfect synchrony if you want to perfect the downshift. If you speed the engine up with the tranny in the lower gear & the clutch pedal depressed, you have to give it a slightly bigger blip to compensate for not spinning the front part of the gearbox. Think of the middle of the transmission as being the place where the engine and the rear wheels are connected, not the clutch.
 
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