I've used racing pedals before on race cars and street cars, everything I'm saying is from personal experience, just wanted to make that clear.
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Originally Posted by EPIQTodd
as why would all race cars have aluminum pedals, and the grip I find is greater, plus the slightly increased surface area on the throttle pedal makes for a better contact patch.
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A race car is a race car, not a street car. In a race car, you wear race shoes that are very thin and very grippy. Race shoes and race pedals also usually are dry. Most of the problems I've ever had on the street have been when I walk into a car with metal pedals while wearing any sort of shoe during wet weather.
I don't see the benefit in a street car of using racing pedals that will impede your year-round driving experience. It's a totally different environment.
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Originally Posted by EPIQTodd
Eslai, yes, the pedal is hinged at the bottom, but if your heel doesn't touch the pedal, it doesn't matter where it is hinged. The Porsche throttle pedal is very sensitive, so putting a pedal extension on it help make it easier for the heel to hit the throttle pedal and do a proper blip. The Porsche pedals are spaced quite far apart compared to other performance vehicles, and until I put on my Rennlines and the lower pedal extension, I couldn't consistently heel-toe while i could in any other manual transmission car I drove. They do make a difference - try it before you knock it.
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The reason I haven't had any desire to extend the pedals in my car is that I have absolutely ZERO problem heel-toeing with the stock pedals. I don't know how anyone could have a problem. My feet are average size, and I blip throttle every day without ever missing the pedals.
A pedal extension near the hinge makes no sense to me--you'd have to have a baby's foot to need it, from what I can tell!
The pedals you sell are nice and I like that they don't say "Porsche" on them (do people REALLY need their pedals to tell them what kind of car they drive?) but I see no practical benefit.