there's a black dead looking foot pedal to the left of the clutch, for your foot to rest on when your not using it.

If he removes it, he was wondering if that would increase the the room where he can rest his left foot back...

I think I said that right

i got around 20 km a liter when i drove a civic 5 spd using advanced hypermiler techniques
and now I drive a salvage nwh20 prius that gets almost to 25 km/l with 195,000 km to date.