Hey Kev,

Thanks for the comment. You should be able to use certain thrustmaster wheels with certain Fanatec Pedal sets with of course a 3rd party adapter. What is the model of your wheel and what is the model of the Pedal set? Take a look at Basher Boards CPX Apdapter. I havent tried this before, but these adapters are really popular among the sim racing community.

-James

Cheers,
Kev

Hey Barrie,

I am excited to see your setup finished, please send me the pics once you are done. If you have any issues hooking it all up or need some workarounds give me a shout and we can try to think through it together.

Yeah I read something a few weeks ago about PCars 2. Sounds promising and I would imagine Slightly Mad Studios has some good data and lessons learned from the first game.

-James

You must be very hardcore, I like to race, not tune, I race every car as it is, I play at 70-80% drivatars depending on the car, the only tuning I ever do is tire pressure and only if I absolutely need too.

Apparently project cars 2 is in the works, I can hardly wait.

I dont race very often on the net either, always seems to be some idiot that finds demo derby more fun than racing and I have weak wifi which causes havoc.

Ill have to send you a picture of the gaming chair as soon as I get it finished, Im hooking up my surround sound on it, I got my bass shaker as well, just waiting for the other parts.

Have a good 1

Hey Barrie,

Yes I race on Xbox One mostly and I sometimes race on PS4. My two three main games are Forza 6, F1 2016, and DiRT Rally. I honestly don’t race online very often unless I am trying to get my in game achievements completed. I did race in the leagues for a while in Forza 6, but eventually got bored with it and tired of the trolling.

If you are racing on Xbox One skip Assetto Corsa and stay with Project Cars if you like it. I thought project cars was very promising even with all of the bugs/glitches, but I found having to get all of the racing wheel settings for each car to be very tedious which eventually led me to stop playing. Assetto Corsa has EXCELLENT force feedback, but lacks so many other features like a good career mode, variety of tracks, variety of cars, and graphically it is not stunning like other titles.

-James

Hey James, are you mainly playing on xbox1, if so what racing games are you playing. Do you race others online or mainly drivatars.
My favorite racing game of all time is project cars, imo it is the closest thing to real driving on the market although I havent got assetto corsa yet which I here is the best sim racer yet as far as real feel goes, have you played it?
I also really like dirt rally, awesome game. Im playng forza 6 and forza horizon 3 as well but imo even with as many options, cars, tracks, setups etc etc that forza 6 has project cars is just a much better feel so I can live with the games issues.
Have a good 1

Hey Barrie,

I just sent you an email. Looking forward to seeing what you have built.

-James

Thanks for getting back to me. I took a couple pics, where should I email them too. Everything for my cockpit it screwed to a 1/2 inch piece of plywood so maybe I should just bolt the shaker on that under the seat(?) and if I get lucky it will travel to the pedals as well. My car seat is bolted to 6″x6″ wood blocks for height so I dont know if much of the vibration will carry threw though.
Unfortunately with xmas coming I didnt have a big budget for this project and could only afford a lepy 2020A mini amp and one dayton audio tt25-16 puck mini bass shaker and the coaxial audio converter so Im guessing I will be upgrading right after I do the first build, lol
I asked the wife for the thrustmaster gear shift and 3 pedal set for xmas. I can hardly wait to get those as in real life my vehicles are manual transmissions and its so much more fun to drive imo
Thanks

Hey Barrie,

Awesome I am glad you are trying this. It makes such an immersion difference with your racing setup.

It doesnt have to touch the seat, but should be attached to something that connects solidly to everything. Technically mine does not touch the seat either. Its attached to the wood which is bolted to the frame that the seat is attached to.

Here is another example: If you were to put a bass shaker in long couch that sits three people I would not tell you to put it underneath the center cushion. You would want to attach it on the longest beam inside the couch that runs from end to end.

Hopefully that example makes sense. The important part of the bass shaker is that it is attached to something that connects to all the parts. If you have pictures of your set up, we can email and I can provide some better opinions. Just let me now and I will email you at the address you have listed in the comments.

-James