my cheap cockpit

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Hi guys

Long time no post. I've just been lurking for a while.. this isn't so much my GT4 cockpit since I dont have a adaptor so i can use my monitor for my PS2 but it does include a DFP đź’ˇ

It's all I ever wanted my first to be, But the first one certainly didnt turn out like this. This one is no only more sturdy, but it gives you a MUCH better feel of a real car.. But my only complaint- Shifter is a tad too high and too close to driver (back too far) .. I will fix this sometime. Also in works is a handbrake and button box..

The cockpit is around 23 1/2 inches high- 44 inches wide and just shy of 60 inches long. There's so much room in it! It's build with table tops (scored them for 4 dollars each! at the Bush funiture Factory. (total cost- 4x 7= 20 bucks)

I plan on carpeting the whole thing just to give it a more stylish look. Along with a new Shifter plate (yeah, the H-shifter looks like it has been through the war, Which it actually has.. I've been banging gears with this thing for over a year and it's never broken once! now if that's not sturdy I don't know what is!) It has it share of paint-dust-and dirt on it but I call it "battle scars"

the wheel is obviously a Logitech DFP, the clutch- is an old Thrustmaster Nascar wheel. I had to mount it upside down because I completely broke the gas pedal. I plan on building my own pedals after I finalize my design and build a prototype.

I don't have and bass shakers yet- persay. But I do have a 75watt RMS 10" Powered home subwoofer behind my seat that gives me a GREAT feeling in LFS ( You can actually FEEL the RB4 you take it through the RPM range, It's wonderfull) The other one is a 360watt JVC Minisystem I've had forever- It works great. And no-That's not an aleinware computer, Just a Raidmax Case đź‘Ť

Sorry to ramble on people. Here are the pictures now.

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Hey,
I saw this yesterday on the RSC forums, pretty nice dude. I like the way you have to step into it. I know some people have already said this on RSC but that H Shifter has a hell of a lot of throw on it. I presume it isnt complete yet seeing as there's tools and stuff all over it lol?
 
vtec_guy
Hey,
I saw this yesterday on the RSC forums, pretty nice dude. I like the way you have to step into it. I know some people have already said this on RSC but that H Shifter has a hell of a lot of throw on it. I presume it isnt complete yet seeing as there's tools and stuff all over it lol?
nope- In the process of building a button box with the wires right there. I know the shifter has alot of throw- but its not too much. I like it.. :)
 
Nice, i've been thinking of building a sequential shifter to go down by my chair so I can have it on the left hand side of the wheel and so that its in a realistic position. But im not quite good enough at engineering and I lack the tools to build something like that, definately not to the standards of RSC anyway lol. Do you have any pics of inside your shifter?
 
vtec_guy
Nice, i've been thinking of building a sequential shifter to go down by my chair so I can have it on the left hand side of the wheel and so that its in a realistic position. But im not quite good enough at engineering and I lack the tools to build something like that, definately not to the standards of RSC anyway lol. Do you have any pics of inside your shifter?
My shifter is definetly not to there standards either.

Build for yourself.. Not them :) If your design works. More power to you.. Who cares what it looks like?

I can get pics of the inside sometime, right now everything is together. But I plan on taking it apart in the next few days which then I will get some pics.
 
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