COCKPIT Alex Open Sim Wheel and rig project (work in progress)

Evening fellas. Not much to hurray about, small parts for the pedals are being manufactured atm so I'll do a bigger update when I can show glimpses of the final product.

 

Evening fellas, same as last time, diving deep into the pedals atm, soon time to put them aside and build some rig again for a change. Potentiometers for clutch and throttle are orderd and should be here sometime next week. Some uniballs and other small stuff will be orderd tonight.

 

Tiny update.

 

Thanks for the kind words amigo.
The secret project is sim racing related ;-)

Merry xmas and a happy new year to you too.

 

Evening fellas. Quick update.

I went and visisted a friend of mine on the 23rd and bought myself an early xmas present and got to build his new AMAZING rig. (Will put a pic and specs in a spoiler). But what I got myself for xmas was a new graphics card. A MSI GTX 980 Gaming 4G, should be able to run the tripple screen setup slightly easier with a full 4gb of vram to its disposal, I also got a very good price. Now gonna sell my 970 to make up the bank balance diffrence.
Here's his new rig.

Spoiler: New rig

First the specs.
Leo Bodnar Sim Steering 2 system with the Kollenmogen AKM54 motor. (Atm the best system out there)
MPPC Hydralic pedals.
Manu Factory Sequential shifter.
Fi Tech steeringwheel button plate mounted to a Sparco P310. www.fi-tech.net
Will use 3 40"+ 4k tv screens with low input lag.
PC will be i7 4790k, overclocked. 2x Nvidia 980ti with good stuff around that.
Rig is built out of aluminium profile, was a pain to assemble but worth it in the end. Company that built it has not yet been announced officially, this is the first rig for a customer. You have to step in like in a Nascar and it's rock solid. Motion in the seat and traction loss. The seat will be an OMP HTE. This is going to be one hell of a rig! It is massive tho.

 

The rig... Came from heaven to earth Or.... Germany. He went all the way from Sweden to Germany to pick the beast up.
Fi Tech makes some insanely pretty stuff. All custom made. It's a friend of mine who runs it (same guy who sold me the pedals) so I'd thought I'd help him to market himself a little bit.
Shoot me a PM if you're interested in the card.

 

last update of this year

 

Projects there will be! Have to keep myself occupied with something or I will go mad I think. We shall see what we sort out, already gathering momentum for 2016

 

I just see your updates.... loving all the process, ready to paint? looks like is ready to test... seems you need to place the shifter and handbrake but looks amazing.

you show one simple motion card ¿motion? like that?



I tested two of those motion system and I really don't like the feeling... I do not recommend spending a cent on that system, keep the money for other kind of immersion system, motion sucks.... is my opinion and until I tested I allways tought it should be the ultimate experience... but it dosen't.

 

Hi Licquido.

Yes painting is not far off, did some more work today to avoid any flex in the rig while braking, there's not much left now, really very little, will pick up a new shifter soon and do a handbrake mount and thats about it more or less...

About motion, yes, thats essentially what he got, probably more refined then a Simx rig, but it does the same thing. I have never tried such a type of motion so I'm open minded about it, but you're not the first one saying its not worth the investment. I have tried a Cruden sim, same as Redbull uses for their sim f.e which was completely shit in my opinion. I will head to UK on wednesday for a motorsport show thursday and friday, where Leo Bodnar will have some stuff lined up with Pro-Sim, should be fun to try out their formula wheel.

 

Nice to eard you came to Europe for motorsport show enjoy and yes, looks like a great oportunity to see what's going on with Leo Bodnar stuff... pics, pics, we want photos from the event.

like I said before... I prefer your actual rig configuration without motion than my G25 with the best motion system on market (force dynamics included) please test them before put more money on that kind of inmersion system.... there is no way to simulate G forces no matter the money you put on that, as you should know better than me.. it is your onw body going to one way to other wich is is completely diferent to inclinate the seat to force your body to move one way to other.... it is not the same feeling and for me was a real disapoint.

btw... love all those big industrial machines to work with iron and blend things.

Cheers.

 

Update with loads of pictures

 

We're all on diffrent levels of hardware.. I'm sort of "Well, this escalated quickly" on it... I had hoped on like a 2000-2500 euro final price but matter of fact is... I'm not even anywhere near that! But I love my hardware 2016 has to be the year I'm finally doing some driving again tho thats for sure.

 

Wow!!! mate those air bags inside the cockpit to simulate Gforces are a blast, 100X times better than motion system... in fact the motion he has is only to simulate suspension and rotation for attack kurbs... very very interesting.

Thanks for share.

 

Hi liquido. Yes the air bags are better, but it was ALOT of delay in them which make the whole thing a massive fail. I'm not sure thats in all their systems regarding it costs about £40.000 but this one didn't impress me, and another point was simply I was to fat fo properly fit into the tub I personally belive in buttkickers as the best solution for sim racing at the moment.