Show your Cockpit

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by Georg Ortner, Jan 23, 2015.

  1. Lexins

    Lexins New Member

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    My DIY SimRig
     

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  2. Badgerous

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    New wheel.. The rim was easy enough to get hold of, but I had to wait 2-3months for stock to catch up with demand on the button box. First impressions are lovely; the rim punches way above it's pricepoint, the button box is as-expected quality from Ascher Racing, and combined they match the GT3 types perfectly, along with one of my favourites - The GT2 Beemer.

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  3. heppsan

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  4. Fleskebacon

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    Nice. Where did you get the rim? I'm constantly looking for the perfect GT3 rim, and this one looks nice. Modern, but still classic and elegant.
     
  5. heppsan

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    Ebay
     
  6. Badgerous

    Badgerous Well-Known Member

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    https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/DimSim-F...077601?hash=item2adfc860e1:g:dvcAAOSwr8BeMclA

    It was on my shortlist for a while along with the Turn Racing R20. The R20 looks lovely, but when accounting for delivery as well, it's easily 3x the cost for me. Then I saw Heppsan above had also picked up the Dimsim, and that settled any doubts I had.

    It's well made, super comfortable (the rubber is soft to the touch, but nice and dense/firm underneath) and It's great to not have to worry about maintaining any more Alcantara/Suede. Delivery from Russia > UK was also way faster than expected for me.

    On the back I had to trim two tiny pieces of the rubber away (those 'spikes' around the hole) for the button box to fit flushly, but it was easily done, and you'd never know.
     
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  7. Fleskebacon

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    Ebay is big, my friend... ;)
     
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  9. heppsan

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    Hahaha, yeah sorry, saw now that it didn't say Dimsim in the post you asked on..:D
     
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  10. Arthur Spooner

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    How does the DimSim wheel feel? Is it rather hard or more soft and grippy?

    Looks like it might be what I'd like to have. ;-)
     
  11. Badgerous

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    Soft enough to be really grippy/comfortable, but it compresses quickly to feel solidly built and takes the forces from a DD well.
     
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  12. museumsteve

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    Still got to 3D print a couple of covers but I decided to buy a used BMW GT2 rim, disassemble it, buy a rim off ebay and fit new buttons. Works well and feels great.
    I decided to try this routeto see how it worked out and must have saved a few quid as I bought the GT2 rim for £240 and the ebay rim for £100 and buttons £12 so £350 for a new rim for my DD1. I'll be doing more soon and will look at picking up any cheap used Clubsport rims as donors.
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  13. M-Bimmer

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    And here’s an old pic of the messy side
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  14. heppsan

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  15. museumsteve

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    Decided to make another DIY rim using a Fanatec base. This time I used a Fanatec Universal Hub as a base for an Audi DTM rim. Hand cut and filed the aluminium, 3D printed the handles and logo, prepped and painted, fitted buttons and wired into the hub. Decided to keep the Fanatec funky switch. Not perfect but I'm pleased with the outcome, tested it out with some DTM laps tonight :D
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  16. Simon Watton

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    Hey, So this is my current Playseat Dirt rig that I have. Its definitely started due to human malware times and considering my last seat was a folding deck chair and the wheel was strapped to an ironing board this has come on quite a bit. Really need to change the steering wheel now as its the only thing ive not changed.

    Playseat DiRT cockpit with Playseat triple monitor stands
    Thrustmaster TMX Steering Wheel
    Thrustmaster TH8A Shifter with T3PA Pro pedals (added xbox rumble motors to all pedals and below the shifter)
    System Model: MSI / Corsair Hybrid
    Processor: AMD 3800 X
    Ram: 32GB Corsair Vengeance 3600mhz
    Graphics Card: MSI GeForce RTX 2080Ti Ventus OC GP Edition
    Screen: 3 x AOC CQ32G1 32" Curved 144hz 1440p QHD
    Custom made button box with home made iflag matrix display
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  17. Ablaze

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    Nice build! :)
    What does those 2 controllers do?
     
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  18. Simon Watton

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    An Arduino R3 to the left, then a motor board controller to the right. The motor board fits on top of the Arduino which is then situated on the rear of the pedal set for stealth :)
     
  19. Ablaze

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    @Simon Watton You didn't answered my question. :p I want to know what they are controlling. After looking again I guess the rumble motors from your pedals may be connected to that?
     
  20. Simon Watton

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    Oh god i didn't did I, totally read that wrong. Yes, they are controlling the 4 motors. Im thinking of going a step further and adding fans but i need to look a little more into that. I use SimHub to control all the different forces to each motor, depending on the game. If you were after the same motor board as me then this is what you'd need... Motor Drive Shield
     
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