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- Tasmania, AU
- stigsdaddy
Hey everyone, I thought I'd share the rig I built for next to nothing, to show everyone how easy and cheap it can be to get a decent experience from your racing games. Sure beats playing on the couch with a controller.
The only tools I used were basic tools (socket set, spanners, screw drivers, pliers), and a power drill.
I bought a dfgt brand new from a store for $130 (australian dollars, less than 70 British pounds), as it was their last display model. This was when stores were moving the last stocks of dfgts for $200 in my town, so a relative bargain at the time.
I had some old stuff lying around my house that I thought I could use to build something for this wheel. I had an old school desk, and an ab circle pro.
A friend of mine gave me the driver's seat out of a parts car he had for free, so once I had that I got to work.
I cut about 8 inches off the legs of the desk with a hacksaw, and drilled holes to hard mount my wheel. I then prepped and painted it with some left over stuff I had lying around (I'm a spray painter). I also used off cuts I had of carbon look vinyl to cover the top while I was at it.
Then I sized everything up. The original idea was to use the frame from the ab circle to mount the seat to something else, which I would mount the table to. In the end, I found the seat sat at the perfect angle if it was half hanging off the back of the frame, and that gave me room to squeeze the tables legs into the frame, which held it solid without bolting it in place. I made the angle even better by flattening the rear brackets of the frame, and adding some small plastic wheels I had to the front brackets, this also made it portable.
I found some metal bars I had removed from my sons old pedal car (they mounted the pedals, and he prefered to have it without pedals so he could flintstone it around). These bars bolted to the front mounts of the seat rails perfectly, and after crossing them over and drilling holes in them and the frame, I had the front of my seat mounted (I measured everything numerous times, as it was crucial to bolt these in the right place).
I found I could use the handles of the ab circle to rest the pedals against, and then noticed if I bent the bracket that the ab circle's lcd mounted to, I could mount a base for my pedals to that. I had a small shelf I had removed from my tv unit lying around which I used for this. I bolted it to the bracket, and the handles, and had the handles mounted backwards on the frame with the original pins. I then held the pedals to the shelf by sitting the front over the bolt head, and putting two screws in the shelf behind the pedals to hold it in place, I then just used duct tape to stop the pedals from moving at all under my heels.
At this point, all I needed to do was figure out a way to mount the rear of the seat rails to the frame. This was the only part of the rig that cost me money, as I had the nuts and bolts and parts for the rest of it already lying around (I'm a big car guy, so I hoard nuts and bolts and stuff like that haha). I bought 3 long strap type brackets and a packet of small bolts to fit them from Bunnings for $9, and bent the brackets around the rear of the frame, and then bolted it to the seat rails. I used the wider of the three brackets to hold the two metal bars, holding the front of the seat on, in place.
Sorry about the big post, it was kinda hard to explain how I did everything lol.
I also have heavily modified the dfgt, can anyone guess all the mods from the pics?
Pics of the set up:
The entire set up is very compact and portable. Removing one bolt and two pins releases the pedal box, the seat folds over the round part of the base, which is pretty compact, and the table lifts out of the base, but doesn't move when being used, as the legs actually squeeze very tightly into place on the base. The entire set up, when broken down into those three components, fits inside my car, which is impressive, as I drive a group a celica, which doesn't have much load space.
The only tools I used were basic tools (socket set, spanners, screw drivers, pliers), and a power drill.
I bought a dfgt brand new from a store for $130 (australian dollars, less than 70 British pounds), as it was their last display model. This was when stores were moving the last stocks of dfgts for $200 in my town, so a relative bargain at the time.
I had some old stuff lying around my house that I thought I could use to build something for this wheel. I had an old school desk, and an ab circle pro.
A friend of mine gave me the driver's seat out of a parts car he had for free, so once I had that I got to work.
I cut about 8 inches off the legs of the desk with a hacksaw, and drilled holes to hard mount my wheel. I then prepped and painted it with some left over stuff I had lying around (I'm a spray painter). I also used off cuts I had of carbon look vinyl to cover the top while I was at it.
Then I sized everything up. The original idea was to use the frame from the ab circle to mount the seat to something else, which I would mount the table to. In the end, I found the seat sat at the perfect angle if it was half hanging off the back of the frame, and that gave me room to squeeze the tables legs into the frame, which held it solid without bolting it in place. I made the angle even better by flattening the rear brackets of the frame, and adding some small plastic wheels I had to the front brackets, this also made it portable.
I found some metal bars I had removed from my sons old pedal car (they mounted the pedals, and he prefered to have it without pedals so he could flintstone it around). These bars bolted to the front mounts of the seat rails perfectly, and after crossing them over and drilling holes in them and the frame, I had the front of my seat mounted (I measured everything numerous times, as it was crucial to bolt these in the right place).
I found I could use the handles of the ab circle to rest the pedals against, and then noticed if I bent the bracket that the ab circle's lcd mounted to, I could mount a base for my pedals to that. I had a small shelf I had removed from my tv unit lying around which I used for this. I bolted it to the bracket, and the handles, and had the handles mounted backwards on the frame with the original pins. I then held the pedals to the shelf by sitting the front over the bolt head, and putting two screws in the shelf behind the pedals to hold it in place, I then just used duct tape to stop the pedals from moving at all under my heels.
At this point, all I needed to do was figure out a way to mount the rear of the seat rails to the frame. This was the only part of the rig that cost me money, as I had the nuts and bolts and parts for the rest of it already lying around (I'm a big car guy, so I hoard nuts and bolts and stuff like that haha). I bought 3 long strap type brackets and a packet of small bolts to fit them from Bunnings for $9, and bent the brackets around the rear of the frame, and then bolted it to the seat rails. I used the wider of the three brackets to hold the two metal bars, holding the front of the seat on, in place.
Sorry about the big post, it was kinda hard to explain how I did everything lol.
I also have heavily modified the dfgt, can anyone guess all the mods from the pics?
Pics of the set up:
The entire set up is very compact and portable. Removing one bolt and two pins releases the pedal box, the seat folds over the round part of the base, which is pretty compact, and the table lifts out of the base, but doesn't move when being used, as the legs actually squeeze very tightly into place on the base. The entire set up, when broken down into those three components, fits inside my car, which is impressive, as I drive a group a celica, which doesn't have much load space.
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