These Are Your Favorite Quality Of Life Car Mods

Photo: Steve DaSilva

Gas pedal repositioning spacers or gas pedal extenders for making heel-toe downshifting much easier. I’ve done this for like 5 cars I’ve had in the past. NC and ND Miatas, BRZ, Focus ST and Fiesta ST.

For sportscars, the pedal spacing on the Miatas and BRZs leave a lot to be desired for heel-toe pedal spacing. Actually, it’s fucking bullshit that the pedals on those built-from-the-ground-up sportscars are spaced so far apart, as well as being uneven with the gas pedal being much lower than the brake pedal.

I can forgive that on the Ford STs since they were econoboxes to begin with. But on real sportscars, that’s a faux pas.

Nowadays, my Veloster N has rev-match downshifting that can rev match much better and more consistently than I can heel-toe. And I can heel-toe pretty damn good.

Had I kept my FR-S, I would’ve put a pedal spacer in there, too. Not only are the pedals far apart horizontally, they’ve got considerable vertical distance between them — you need to be really hard on the brakes for the pedals to line up.

Submitted by: mountainbikingandtrackdays