Buckwild's cockpit build

[buckwild]

This is my first cockpit build, 2 days and about 12 hours of work between my brothers and I.

After much junk yard diving, decent leather seats are hard to find, gray passenger side out of an older wrx. 40 bucks! About 30+ feet of steal 1" square stock. Lots of mig welding. And yes that's real mahogany for the steering wheel mount. Chilicoke inspired peddle mounting. The feet are these "Slide Glide" things from home depot for replacing refrigerator feet to make them easy to slide out, works great for sliding the cockpit out of the way. All hit with the classic "Rattle Can Black" and that's about that.

After playing with it for about a week I have come to realize two additional things are absolutely necessary to add onto this project.

1. Dead Peddle next to the clutch.
2. Real E-Break wired into the G27 shifter
(Basically all the crap Chilicoke did, you NEED! With the exception of that random button?)

Anyone thinking about building a cockpit, DO IT. Changed the entire experience of racing sims for me.

Thanks for reading, let me know what you think!

 

[Booey]

Very simple design but it gets the job done. I really like it!

 

[Gunstar]

Looks effective. Elegant in a way, with the wood top and everything. How stable is it?

 

[Cheshyrkat]

Looks good and the seat nice and comfy. 👍

 

[Bscary]

thats awesome. doesnt look simple to me. welded with a permanently fixed perfectly positioned shifter? only thing id do is go all black or a bit pf gunmetal/silver color. maybe reverse the bolts so the butterfly clamps are on the bottom. thats pretty sweet tho. wish i had the tools and ability to make one of those.

 

[M.Ponsiglione]

Very cool. I wish I had welding skills, I would have gone steel vs. PVC

 

[buckwild]

Its very solid, my brother came over the other day and wailed on it. Nothing is through bolted, everything was drilled and tapped, and the bolts are screwed in with lock washers. Also the 1" square stock is very thick walled stuff (all they had in stock when I went to the steel mill).

Also the wings nuts on the top of the wheel mount aren't nuts, there actually wing BOLTS which I didn't know they made until I went looking. There are two positions for the wheel mount board (drilled and tapped as well) forward and back. Reason being that the back setting is for me (I'm 6'9") and the forward is for shorter people that want to use the cockpit. (my girlfriend is 5'4") This was also the reason for keeping the factory slide rails for the seat in the design.

I had never used the mig welder at the start of the project, and while my brother did most the welding its not that hard to get the hang of. I found the only difficult part was dealing with the lack of visibility out of the eye protection when starting out.

Thanks for all the positive feed back, and Id love to keep hearing your ideas about improvements as, unknown to my girl, I'm planning on making a Cockpit Version 2 ASAP. After I add a few more things to this one first.

P.S. Anyone have experience with the Butkickers soundless subs, and mounting them to a cockpit like mine? I'm thinking of just extending a small sub frame off the back for the dimensions of the bolt pattern of the "Advanced" Butkicker and bolting the bad lary on there. I definatly need to kick in the rear when I throw the gas down or slam into a wall etc. ... I mean.... I don't slam into walls I'm leet... >.>