Thread: more room for 3rd. pedal

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Dumb as it sounds, wear shoes similar to driving shoes.

Many of the athletic shoes available nowadays are more like a real-short boot than they are a pair of tennies.

Wearing boots in the tight confines of a hot rod don't cut it most times.

Well you can do any-thang, but lay off of my blue suede shoes.....
Safety Racing Suede Leather Driving Shoes

I wear driving shoes, because my sneakers are two wide in the toe area. With my sneakers it's too easy to hit the brake and the gas at same time. Done that, scares the crap out of you.

Another more expensive possibility is to replace your steering column with one of the new short columns The steering shaft is just the 3/4" double D shaft which gives you more room at the firewall than a standard column. You could also add one of the Steer Clear units give you more room for pedals and feet by offsetting that allow you to mount your short column up to 16" off of the floor. Speedway sells them ($600 - $700). Not cheap buy a way to find more room for a 3rd pedal.

For the additional $1000 (Steer Clear + shorty column) you can buy a lot of driving shoes.

Mopar Thanks for the info. Sounds like a neat way to go. I'll check into that info. Bart

Chevy there are some compact factory cars that have some that work great if you have the hangers . I tried some 67 mustang i have which allow the steering column to go between brake pedal and clutch pedal . I didnt like that because may have push fuel pedal over not there yet was just thinking ahead. I found some from a 94 Mustang that is really compact and sit to the left of column. Even if you move them on you can catch them with the toe pad of your foot . Way its done in a Mustang anyhow . They where cheap and even if i have to modify arms i can get them to fit perfect . Here is a couple pics and i think the A has a smaller foot well then your truck .

67 first pic

94 second pic

Keep in mind that when you upholster the car the front side panel will take away some footroom to the side.

No reason the upholstery guy can't make a sunken well bit of upholstery in that area.

If not, you'll lose about 2" of footroom to the side.

Interesting set up bluestang67. Don't think I've seen a set up with the clutch pedal that far to left. I'm thinking of getting a offset steering colume and use the origional pedals that went through the floor. I think that might work