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Monster Wolfsatzesque pictorial post below
And thanks Wolf. Gran-DaddyWhisky has a nice ring to it! But, he will not be my first grand child. Got a couple other grandsons ages 8 and 6. It is, however, my son's first child. Can't wait for that boy to get old enough to do what the other two have as shown below.
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Some folks have been interested in seeing the mods Owens and I have made to my Wheel Stand Pro. Here they are.
Almost 3 Christmases ago I started playing GT5 this way. About 10'-12' away from the 42" TV. Yes, I play GT5 with gloves on. Can't stand how gummy the wheel gets when I play barehanded. Those are my summer motorcycle gloves.
Now, I play GT5 this way.
Below are some pictures showing parts of the path to get here.
G27 MkI beside the old DFGT Rig
A few weeks into using the G27 I decided to bring my office chair downstairs and get the wheel stand as close to the TV as I could. Still using stock wheel stand.
After a couple weeks I decided I wanted to raise the stand higher because my chair only went so low and the TV was a bit higher than I liked. Plus, I found during heavy counter steering moments this stand would tip sideways. Thus was born the G27 MkII with ghetto mods.
The above picture was taken when I was trying to use a phone app to get Owens some dimensions for building the mods detailed below.
Owens had the main stand mods already cut and this shot is just before he started cutting the shifter arm mount.
He got the shifter arm pieces cut and the next afternoon we adjusted some of the pieces he'd already cut after a fine night drinking 18 year old
whisky. I loaded everything back up, I'd taken wheel and stand up there, so we could make sure everything fit, and hauled it home.
Here's a couple with all the pieces laid out and ready for pre-paint assembly and testing.
Here it is, still pre-paint and stowed away.
Decided to add some mods of my own to this masterpiece of Hoosier ingenuity;
A pin to help keep the shifter arm from rotating while gear jammin',
And a "shelf" to set the DS3 on.
Got all that stuff fine tuned and continued testing.
Thought about what colors I wanted to paint these mods and settled on finding, as close as I could, the colors I use for SNAIL. Bought these;
One can of primer wasn't nearly enough so headed to wally world for 2 more. It turned out 3 cans of the blue weren't nearly enough, so I ended up ordering 5 more from Amazon. Shoulda ordered 6 or 7. One can died completely after about 30 seconds of spray.
Here's all the pieces, disassembled and ready to go to paint.
Primer in progress
Color coats in progress;
This is where the blue stalled out when it took 3 cans to get 1.5 coats down.
Jump forward more than a week and now we have this;
All pieces ready for assembly.
Mods attached to wheel stand, shifter arm assembled and all ready for transfer on station.
Everything Assembled, on station and ready to rock.
While I was waiting for those 5 cans of paint to arrive I "horse traded" an eight foot couch and a chair for a five foot "love seat" and my computer desk. Here's some pics of the progress of making this area in my basement and official "Man Cave" Still haven't got the sign Owens made me ready to mount but it will be going up somewhere in this room.
Computer in it's upstairs location and basement, pre-trade.
Cable Management 101
From the stairs.
From the corner opposite stairs
So there it is, for anyone who was curious. I'm probably gonna have to buy another can or two of the blue and a few cans of clear coat to seal everything off. It seems the paint department didn't do something right and color coats are flaking off in various places. It appears a hard look is all it takes in some spots for the color to jump right off the primer.
PS. I have a lot more pictures of all this, than I've posted here. It took quite a bit of time to "edit" this all. I apologize to any who might be inconvenienced or offended by the plethora of pics in this post.
I can. I will, if necessary. Been off the race grids for almost 3 weeks though. SNAIL will be here next week however. 
