11/25/2023 0 Comments Build your own sim racing cockpitOne really understimates the time of perfection and measurement. The last steps were about 2 hours, but all taken togehter it took us longer than we expected. On the second day, it took us 5 hours to get from step 4-6 because of screws, which were missing. We spent around 4 hours on the first day for step 1-3. It may not seem to take that long, but it really does. It won't take long and you'll have to do it anyway. I won't give you the distances and points to screw, because it's better to personalize it. Just a small disclaimer: Everything is measured excactly for my length. Now that I listed everything you need (except the right tools, of course), I can start by explaining the process of building. IMPORTANT: The gap in between the foundation logs is heavily depending on the width of the seat or seat-console! The seat we used is an old, original Recaro KBA 90024, which my father used in his beloved Renault 5 Alpine Turbo. We bought too many on purpose, so we have some spare ones if one is damaged in any ways during the process of building. Nearly every screwhead (except the one for the angled-log to foundation screws) is purposly bought with a big head (6 point head), so you can unscrew it easyly. 4x 6x120 (The screws you need for your seat-console, my father still had his) 6x 10x150 (To screw the foundation on the extra-foundation) 8x 8x140 (To screw the poles to the foundation and to screw the shifter-ploe to the foundation) 4x 8x120 (To screw the pedal-plate to the foundation) 4x M6x100 (As shown in the picture, we used screws, which are better to be removed) (To screw the poles to the wheelbase-plate) 6x M6x35 (To screw the pedal-box to its plate) The screws we used were mainly wood-screws, we also got some metric ones for the wheelbase plate. We cut them ourselves later on, this is what we used out of it: We were lucky and got a perfect sawing-rest for all the plates we used. The second log was cut into 3x 0.6 meters (because we needed 10cm of extra-height for my table Those are an extra-foundation), 2x 0.75 meters (the poles for the wheelbase), 1x 0.3 meters (the pole for the shifter-plate) and then the 40cm rest, which turned out perfectly useful. The first 4 meters were cut into 2x 1.5 metres (The foundation) and 2x 0.5 metres with an angle of 45 degrees on every side (pictures will show what I mean) We only needed one. Two Logs, which were 80x100x4000 millimeters. It was a bit tricky to find everything and we had to get the logs sawed by a professional in the store itself so it took us about 3 1/2 hours untill we finally left the store with (nearly, as we later discovered) everything. We started and put up little drawing and "blueprints" on how we could assemble the rig, with visual help from the internet, but there were no measurings of DIY rigs from people before, so we had to come up with our own ones.Īfter a few basic calculations (ok, I have to admit it took about 2-4 hours), we went to the hardware store and bought, what we needed. One of my christmas gifts this year was the assembly and the materials for the rig. I then spoke to my father who is keen on building stuff and asked him to help me building one, he came up with a wooden one. I looked up prices of metal bars to assemble my own rig from metal bars like many people have done before, but this way was nearly as expensive as the Playseat ones. The pre-mounted and ready to assembly kits from Playseat were the first stop, but they were simply too expensive in my eyes. So I started to inform myself about rigs. I then noticed, that it is much easier to have a rig than having to find the right position on your desk. I started with a PS3 Controller, then went to the Steam Controller and afterwards I got my Logitech G29 at christmas last year, since then I've absolutely fallen for it. I am into simracing for 1 and a half year now, which is rather short, but it feels like a hobby which I never found, but always needed.
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