[bobcowan]

Actually, if you shorten your pedal to the manual brake length, you'll get where you want to be.

Manual brakes certainly take more leg pressure to work, but they still work well. It's not an excessive amount of pressure; just more than power.

On my car, I also did a dog leg mod. With the stock shape of the pedal, the pivot point is at the bottom of it's arc while at rest. The more you move the pedal, the less actual foreward motion you get. By changine the angle of the pedal, the pivot point starts out on the back side of the arc. As you move the picot point foreward, you get the maximum amount of foreward movement. I don't have any pictures of this. But I got the idea from Richard Oben.