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Racing sim

It started with a used wheelbase, wheel and pedals off Facebook Marketplace. Then a guy was selling a chassis with a Recaro seat. It's been one upgrade after another since.

My racing sim in 3D: the Recaro seat and its harness on the aluminium chassis, the wheel on the Simucube, the pedals, the shifter and handbrake, three screens with the gauge cluster on top, the speakers on their stands, all on the rug.

Drawn from the model

A line drawing of my racing sim from its right side: the seat and its harness, the shifter and the handbrake beside it, the wheel on the Simucube, the pedals, the screens with the gauge cluster on top, and a speaker on its stand.
From its right side
A line drawing of my racing sim taken apart: the seat lifted off its ButtKickers, the wheel and the Simucube up off their deck, the screens and the gauge cluster up and away, the shifter, the handbrake and a speaker out to the side, over the chassis.
Taken apart

Parts

  1. Wheel
    1. 1Simucube 2 Pro direct drive wheelbasebought used
    2. 2Sparco R383 wheel rimbought used
    3. 3Ascher Racing B16M-SC wireless button box and magnetic paddles
  2. Pedals and shifting
    1. 4Heusinkveld Sprint 3 pedal setbought used
    2. 5HRS pedal pads
    3. 6Simsonn VAM Plus pedal haptics
    4. 7Heusinkveld handbrake
    5. 8Frex HShift+ 6 speed shifter
  3. Cockpit
    1. 9Heusinkveld Sim Rig GT chassisbought used
    2. 10Recaro SPG race seatbought used
    3. 11Sabelt 4 point harness with TRS shoulder pads
    4. 12QS-BT1 seat belt tensioner
  4. Screens
    1. 13Three XG27AQDMG monitors, 27-inch 1440p 240Hz OLEDs
    2. 14Three Simlab Vario VESA mounts
    3. 15A digital gauge cluster
  5. Feel and sound
    1. 16Two ButtKicker Gamer Pros
    2. 17Redion wind simulator
    3. 18Edifier 1280DB bookshelf speakers
  6. PC
    1. 19Ryzen 7 9800X3D, RTX 5090, 48GB RAM, in a small form factor case

Build log

  1. Used, off Facebook Marketplace

    A Simucube 2 Pro wheelbase, a Sparco wheel and Heusinkveld pedals, all secondhand.

    Three Heusinkveld pedals bolted to the aluminum chassis.

  2. Then a chassis with a Recaro seat

    Someone was selling theirs, seat and all.

    A friend trying the first version: the Recaro seat, wheel and pedals on the bare chassis, no screens yet.

  3. A new PC for an old monitor

    I built a small form factor PC with a 5080 and ran it on a 27-inch monitor I already had.

    The new small PC in a blue case next to the old 27-inch monitor, booting up.
    The first version: the Recaro seat and wheel in front of one monitor, cables everywhere.

  4. Then, slowly, everything else

    • A seat belt tensioner and Sabelt harness
    • ButtKickers
    • A wind simulator
    • Bookshelf speakers, on mounts
    • A digital gauge cluster, which I mounted myself
    The rig between two bookshelf speakers on stands.
    Winnie sitting beside the rig, the digital gauge cluster above the screens.

  5. Three OLEDs and a 5090

    Three 27-inch 240Hz OLEDs, then a 5090 to run them. About 250 fps on average in Forza Horizon 6.

    The rig in front of three 27-inch OLEDs wrapping around the seat.
    Driving on the three OLEDs.
Driving it, with friends and Winnie