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[TrD3sgte94]

can somebody tell me how the heel toe method works?

[soulshadow]

Thats a pretty good explanation, but the way I find it is that when your about to enter a corner do not use the brake pedals at all and do down shift to the next lowest gear that will make you car stay really close to redline, but not quite and at the same time gas it so that it does stay close to redline. 7A or 5S N/A engines, do not perform quite well in this catergory cause you will lose all HP figures near redline. Now, turbos are just way to fast and it becomes over kill, cause you won't complete that turn safely going 130 MPH.

I find that the 4age engine suited my taste the most around corners. The engine only has high revving power, so that when your near redline. You can still feel the grips on the tires, yet have enough power to go around corners at high speed. IN other words, its like the tires are not even gripping the road at all which allows easy turns. WHICH, is probbaly happenning. So far, if I redline around corners at a stop sign I can feel my back tires sliding around, which allows easy control over the car. On the old 7A engine, I felt a great power loss at high revs, cause the engine cuts off HP figures around 5.5K RPM I think, while the 4A seems like its just arrived at the steps to the High power band peak. Seriously tho, I think my engine could go easily to 8.2-8.4K RPM easily if rev, cut didn't kick in.

[Kwanza26]

Thats a pretty good explanation, but the way I find it is that when your about to enter a corner do not use the brake pedals at all and do down shift to the next lowest gear that will make you car stay really close to redline, but not quite and at the same time gas it so that it does stay close to redline. 7A or 5S N/A engines, do not perform quite well in this catergory cause you will lose all HP figures near redline. Now, turbos are just way to fast and it becomes over kill, cause you won't complete that turn safely going 130 MPH.

If you're going 60-70mph and need to enter a corner at 20mph... you better hit the brakes. The idea of heel toe braking/downshifting is to keep the engine rpms high after the intial hard brake (for a corner entry), then after that you lighten off the brakes and heel-toe downshift.