Cockpit made from a real car...

[nurburgring]

I had this crazy idea: I'll try to do my best despite my poor english writing to explain what I have in mind.

I was like why not going to a scrapyard and find a small car like a Miata or something like that and simply cutting the body to extract only the part of the car you need to have: So you just go back to home with a par of the floor, the frame under the door, the centre console and half of the firewall with the pedals attached to it. After that, it must be easy to reinforce and adapt the wheel on it, no ?

Is somebody did that already ?

 

[kikie]

*snip*

Is somebody did that already ?

Ofcourse and it's not a crazy idea but a lot of work.


This is partially what you're looking for:




Look through these threads:

https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?t=87508&highlight=cockpit

https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?t=89462&highlight=setup

I believe there is somebody on GTP who did the same, what you want to do, with a Lotus Elise.

 

[Darkmiss]

Woah! that's so nice

 

[nurburgring]

Thanks for teh video and links.

 

[speedyK]

I believe there is somebody on GTP who did the same, what you want to do, with a Lotus Elise.

If you mean me, I didn't use a Lotus for my cockpit, I only used a few Lotus parts – but all put in exactly the same position as on the real car.

Base

I didn't replicate the roll cage of my real Exige Cup – but I was tempted too

Cutting up and using a real car is something I considered too – but the size of the parts makes it difficult to fit through standard house doors. And you don't really gain much from it – really all you need are the right dimensions and parts around you that feel right. You don't need an actual car for that.

For my third cockpit build, I'm concentrating on a modular approach to allow different seats and wheels – maybe even pedals – and all fairly easily adjustable in height and length, so that the driving position matches anything from Peugeot to Pagani (not too concerned about single seaters like F1 cars). A modular design allows swapping out of e.g. a wheel or pedals (e.g. Logitech for Fanatec) without tears 👍

 

[kikie]

If you mean me, *Snip*👍

Yes, I was talking about you. I 'errored' which is actually a compliment. The fact that I thought that you used a real cockpit means that it is done very well otherwise I wouldn't have been mistaken.