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yeah it looks ace, could be my next upgrade to replace my 34"uw though I would like to try one first
Sim racers - what are you running?
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Fanatec's CEO and founder has been removed from power by the board.
I love their products but change is needed, they’re not making good efforts at giving themselves a good name as it stands. Hopefully this is the start of an improvement on how they operate.
As far as I'm concerned (And through my own experience with them) they do make really good products. However it is everything else that they fall down on. The big change in the 2nd half of last year to try and upsize everything in terms of their distribution network and manufacturing effort is where things started to go wrong.
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Hopefully this is a positive change for them. I’ve had a number of their products; family still do, and I’ve always thought they were excellent.
Soldato
Here's the start of my efforts. So much stuff is out of stock currently, no idea when it will be complete. I have a small outbuilding office, gutted the rear desk/project area and slapped a Trak Racer TR160 Mk4 frame in there, with a Sparco R333 seat. Due to space, I will be most likely going triple 27" 1440P screens, VNM pedals, shifter and handbrake, but not decided on base/steering wheel yet.
I have an old work PC on the wall by my desk that I am going to relocate to near ground level on the back wall, to the right of the rig -
Hello mate,
Just got to the part of the build with your exact chair + TR160 where I'm almost ready to do the seat (this whole thing has been a learning curve haha!) did you mount the chair onto the runners before putting it onto the rig or did you install the runners to the beams on the rig first? I'm only 5'6 so was thinking to put the runners in the centre of the beams on the rig, any advice would be grand! Instructions aren't the best imo and are designed for trak racer seats/side mounts for seats!
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I don’t have that exact rig but I had a similar dilemma with the omega. I ended up putting the runners on the seat first and then onto the rig.
It was difficult mounting the seat onto the runners when I tried mounting the runners to the rig first.
Took me ages, was a right faff.
Hey man,Hello mate,
Just got to the part of the build with your exact chair + TR160 where I'm almost ready to do the seat (this whole thing has been a learning curve haha!) did you mount the chair onto the runners before putting it onto the rig or did you install the runners to the beams on the rig first? I'm only 5'6 so was thinking to put the runners in the centre of the beams on the rig, any advice would be grand! Instructions aren't the best imo and are designed for trak racer seats/side mounts for seats!
I don’t have that exact rig but I had a similar dilemma with the omega. I ended up putting the runners on the seat first and then onto the rig.
It was difficult mounting the seat onto the runners when I tried mounting the runners to the rig first.
Took me ages, was a right faff.
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@Mr Footlong
love the PC on the wall, that's awesome !
you should post that in the PC gallery thread, they will love that !
love the PC on the wall, that's awesome !
you should post that in the PC gallery thread, they will love that !
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Thanks buddy that's what we ended up doing, we got it on then sorted the runners so that we could get them as far forward as possible for when my son uses it or someone taller can. About 50% through the build now.
Weekends challenge will be getting the wheel plate in the best position plus the pedal plate and shifter mount, pretty decent for track racer to include a shifter mount with the rig and they included the cable clips plus table ties.
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Thanks buddy that's what we ended up doing, we got it on then sorted the runners so that we could get them as far forward as possible for when my son uses it or someone taller can. About 50% through the build now.
Weekends challenge will be getting the wheel plate in the best position plus the pedal plate and shifter mount, pretty decent for track racer to include a shifter mount with the rig and they included the cable clips plus table ties.
Looks good mate. I would recommend to remove your screen before installing the wheel and pedals.
Soldato
I won my first race on iRacing! MX5 cup on Okayama! I’ve only been sim racing for about week - is that good or fairly normal? That was in split 23/40.
I came close to winning a few times before. Once the car I was about to lap spun out in front of me and I had to brake hard to avoid, and got overtaken by P2 as a result on the last lap.
Most frustrating was the game crashing when I led 7/8 laps and on the final lap, last couple corners and suddenly froze.
I came close to winning a few times before. Once the car I was about to lap spun out in front of me and I had to brake hard to avoid, and got overtaken by P2 as a result on the last lap.
Most frustrating was the game crashing when I led 7/8 laps and on the final lap, last couple corners and suddenly froze.
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You’ll need the space to move about! My back hurt for 2 days from the bending in awkward positions when I built mines haha
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just encase you bump into it whilst installing the pedals etc
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I have HDR on with my monitors (listed in sig)
I don’t see any downside as I find iracing a little washed out as default. Sometimes the luminance on a sunny day is a bit too much but it’s very rare.
I never have HDR on in the iracing settings though. It’s some fake version designed to emulate it and it’s weird with a performance hit too.
I don’t see any downside as I find iracing a little washed out as default. Sometimes the luminance on a sunny day is a bit too much but it’s very rare.
I never have HDR on in the iracing settings though. It’s some fake version designed to emulate it and it’s weird with a performance hit too.
Soldato
Fanatec getting into the sim rig business.
fanatec.com
CSL Cockpit
The CSL Cockpit punches well above its weight. Every part of the aluminium and steel construction is optimised for stiffness and strength.
fanatec.com
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Pedals (P1000) finally arrived. I’ve got it all set up and I’m actually blown away. I have a huge learning curve to get through now but it was huge fun. Played some AC, ACC and F1 23 already. I also added a couple of haptics onto the pedals (brake and throttle) but forgot they needed a power supply so that’s on order.
Fanatec getting into the sim rig business.
CSL Cockpit
The CSL Cockpit punches well above its weight. Every part of the aluminium and steel construction is optimised for stiffness and strength.
I think this looks a bit weak when you can get a Sim Lab GT1 Evo for less money. It's €620 once you add the monitor mount and the seat. No option for triples with the monitor mount (though arguably if you're looking at a rig at this sort of price you may not be the target market for triples) and the seat looks a bit crap. You don't easily have the option to add to it, upgrade to triples, mount your own seat to it, etc. like you do with a profile rig.
I went hunting for a review of it. I found one in German. The guy hooked a DD1 up to it and it seemed to translate a lot of forces through the rig and produced some wobble in the frame and monitor. It fared better with a 12 or 15 Nm base on it.
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Made some good progress today, just need to get it setup and do some testing.
