My Drifting/Racing G25 cockpit

[iNs3CuRe]

Hi everyone, and welcome to my drifting/racing G25 cockpit project thread. This racing cockpit costed me about £7 pounds, and it took me and my dad about 11-12 hours.👍 One picture says a thousand words so lets bring on the pictures ​

So sat in front of my g25 and started to imagine how I would like it to be set out. I took some paper, pencil and the measure and drawn some ideas and also took some measures.

Few minutes later I went down to the garage and used some wooden beams that were not longer needed. Took the measure, saw and I made up the base.

After that I made up the two angled wooden beams that would hold the inverted pedals at a right angle.

After that I sanded the sharp edges of the wooden beams and went home to do some drifting 👍 hehe This took me about 1.5 hours.

Next day I asked my dad to help me as it's a lot better when you got another pair of hands to help you hold something while you screw it in etc
So we put together the base that I made up the day before and also we screwed in the top, as well as the two wooden beams that support the top.

Next became the pedals, I set them out rougly how I wanted them to be and then we screwed them in. After that I put the covers for the pedals.

Next up was the gear shifter holder, so when my dad took a break for a cig we were trying to figure out how to mount it 💡 We had to cud the wooden beam a bit to make the shifter fit. Thats the result:

After that I was trying to figure out where and how to mount the Hydro style e-brake. After some time I got an idea 💡 So I marked where I want to cut with a pen and cut out the hole with a saw.

Sorry I didnt take any pics of mounting the hydro style e-brake After a few hours, here is the result:

Then I took it upstairs to test it out 👍

It worked really good although the pedals were too close and the 2 wooden beams were annoying while I wanted to "roll in" with my seat haha
So I fixed these things the next day

Thats it, its nearly finished. All I need to do now is wire up the e-brake and maybe paint the cockpit in the future. 👍

BTW how do you like my camera stand ? haha

I will put up a video of it in use later, hope you like it everyone and comments will be higly appreciated 👍 Thanks

 

[Powellx235]

Nice cockpit man! I might copy you in the near future with my G27. 👍

 

[iNs3CuRe]

Nice cockpit man! I might copy you in the near future with my G27. 👍

Cheers man I can give you the dimensions of it if you want but tbh I think everyone does theres to their personal needs

 

[xxxpp24com]

Good job boy~
But don't you think the pedal are too close?And are that wood hard?If the wood are light,don't do andy violent drifting...

Why don't you try this material?

 

[Powellx235]

Cheers man I can give you the dimensions of it if you want but tbh I think everyone does theres to their personal needs

I think I'll make my own dimensions to accommodate what I'm sitting on. And I do Technical Graphics, engineering and woodwork in school so it won't be that hard to do that. Cheers for the offer anyway 👍

 

[iNs3CuRe]

Good job boy~
But don't you think the pedal are too close?And are that wood hard?If the wood are light,don't do andy violent drifting...

Why don't you try this material?

Yes I think i need to spread out the pedals a bit more as I tryed to do left foot braking today and its really tight And the wood is very hard and stable, its also preety light so its easy to move it around.

 

[LogiForce]

Nice cockpit, but can I give you one tip when you have to rebuild it. Which can't be avoided, because of the reason and tip i'll give you.
You see, I see that you put screws into the head/top side (or end) of the wood instead of into the side. If you do that screws will never hold. So that tabletop will eventually start to come loose, either by vibration or even a little aging and deterioration of the wood.
So you might want to redesign that a bit so that you don't need to screw anything into the top but only into the side. Like making wedges so everything overlaps and then screw together with 4 screws for maximum stability.

Anyhow, good craftsmanship non the less. I hope you can enjoy it for many years to come.

 

[iNs3CuRe]

Nice cockpit, but can I give you one tip when you have to rebuild it. Which can't be avoided, because of the reason and tip i'll give you.
You see, I see that you put screws into the head/top side (or end) of the wood instead of into the side. If you do that screws will never hold. So that tabletop will eventually start to come loose, either by vibration or even a little aging and deterioration of the wood.
So you might want to redesign that a bit so that you don't need to screw anything into the top but only into the side. Like making wedges so everything overlaps and then screw together with 4 screws for maximum stability.

Anyhow, good craftsmanship non the less. I hope you can enjoy it for many years to come.

Thanks for the tip 👍 I wont change it now, if it starts to become loose I will use your method

 

[MSTER232]

Nice cockpit man! I might copy you in the near future with my G27. 👍

Copy and paste .

 

[sesselpupser]

I can't see any wires going into or out of your handbrake... How have you got it wired up? Nice work, though, even if it doesn't last forever. The pedals do look like they belong to a Transit van driving sim setup, though! Still, I've been designing a cockpit for months now and haven't actually gotten round to building it so I can't really comment, can I?

 

[tw1sted]

loved it... Good work