heel and toe in my na miata?

I don't know guys, I'm an average driver. I can't seem to angle my foot over to blip the throttle... there's no room or is my foot is too big?

As a not-small person with feet to match, I find myself doing more of a big toe - little toe than a heel-toe motion, if that makes sense.
And that's with most cars, for sure was the case with the NA I owned a few years ago.

I have 12s and usually wore floppy shoes. So I did more brake with big toe and ball of my foot, and used my two smallest toes to stab at the gas pedal.

Sounds like SnowMongoose has gorilla toes like me.

I DD an e36 which I find to be the easiest car ever to heel toe. I was driving an NA yesterday and I noticed it was much harder. I was kinda doing a ball of foot on brake and instep on gas. Sounds weird, but it's the only thing that made sense to me and worked.

Heel and toe is really more like side of heel and front outer edge of shoe. A long gas pedal helps, and you want the gas pedal to sit level with or even higher than (in terms of pedal depression) the brake pedal at rest.

GameboyRMH wrote: and you want the gas pedal to sit level with or even higher than (in terms of pedal depression) the brake pedal at rest.

I disagree - I want the gas pedal to sit even with the brake pedal when I am pushing the brake pedal down hard enough to be at threshold braking.

Heel-toe I find in many cars is much easier when you are doing it on track at or near the limit because of the above. If you are just putzing around the streets and not braking that hard, the distance between the gas and brake can actually be too large for comfortable heel-toe.

That said, even on track in our lemons NA miata we screwed a larger pedal onto the miata accelerator to bring it a bit closer to the brake.

Flyin miata has a fix

I have one in my car, it works well for me, but I wear a size 9.5 https://www.flyinmiata.com/fm-gas-pedal-extension.html

1. Brake pedal height is adjustable on the NA. You canraise or lower it to match gas pedal height when depressed.
2. I've bent the gas pedal towards the brake. It is a pretty thin rod. Just be sure to support the top of the rod when bending it.

Robbie wrote:

GameboyRMH wrote: and you want the gas pedal to sit level with or even higher than (in terms of pedal depression) the brake pedal at rest.

I disagree - I want the gas pedal to sit even with the brake pedal when I am pushing the brake pedal down hard enough to be at threshold braking.

I find it easier if the gas is a bit higher so you can hit it with your heel without too much contortion, but maybe that's just me.

If the Miata is anything like the RX 7 there is not much space. I have to roll the side of my foot over onto the gas pedal. There is no way I can twist my foot to line up heel/toe. The rolling works pretty well, give the throttle a blip and slide off the brake and onto the gas fairly fluidly.