Show your cockpit - Page 26

**Cam Wedgwood** · #**626** (**permalink**) 25th May 2008

I just checked the state of my order to be extremely surprised to see this...:

Your item cleared customs in AUSTRALIA at 5:05 PM on May 25, 2008. Information, if available, is updated every evening. Please check again later.

WOW!! It was sent on the 20th! I was expecting at least another week!

**Attila Domján** · #**627** (**permalink**) 26th May 2008

hmmm, today my super light-weight damper for the ECCI arrived to decrease needed force to turn the wheel, i found it too heavy currently. So, tonight i am going to install it, lets see if it improves my laptimes!

**Warren Dawes** · #**628** (**permalink**) 26th May 2008

Good heavens Atti, your racing rig must be more expensive than a real car by now, lol.

**Attila Domján** · #**629** (**permalink**) 26th May 2008

well, i could definetely by a 2 years old Ford Mondeo from it... lol but this damper was only 20 USD

**Attila Domján** · #**630** (**permalink**) 27th May 2008

yo, new pulley is assembled yesterday to my wheel, the feel of the wheel movement is now just about perfect, exactly the feel what i wanted to have.

**Maik Peters** · #**631** (**permalink**) 27th May 2008

Nice m8...

**Jamie Wilson** · #**632** (**permalink**) 29th May 2008

For the first time, some images of my current setup, with a new addition in the form of an SST shifter... Mainly for history-recording reasons, as the cockpit project proper starts now

The overall setup. Before today I had the G25 shifter on the left, might take me a while to adjust to shifting sequentially on the right now.

Arrived today

. Clamped to the desk until I have a solution for having it at the right height.

My ingenius pedal raising box :p. My desk was built pretty high, so I had to raise them up, and it's angled such that the pedal faces are very nearly vertical.

My pride and joy, an Access Virus TI synth

My aging MIDI controller keyboard, tucked away out of use for tonight.

**Jamie Wilson** · #**633** (**permalink**) 29th May 2008

Recieved it today, Cam:

Initial thoughts:

- Reasonably well packed
- Actually slightly smaller than I was anticipating. Then again on the sim-gear site the picture is huge, so that's probably why.
- Built like a tank
- Peeling the little rubber feet things off the cardboard strip (to put underneath the top plate when clamping onto a desk) is a right pain in the arse, but doable with care
- Feels great; much more weighty than my G25, despite it still being classed as a 'light' feel
- My 7th and 8th gates seem to click very slightly louder than the others but I'm sure it's nothing to worry about
- It's crazily shiny. Shiny = good.
- As for the H-shifting process, I'm already used to that from my G25. Took me about 2 laps to get 100% used to the slightly tighter shift pattern.

**Warren Dawes** · #**634** (**permalink**) 29th May 2008

Will be interesting to see how it goes over time.
It certainly looks more sturdy than the G25.

**Attila Domján** · #**635** (**permalink**) 29th May 2008

Nice addition Jamie

**Cam Wedgwood** · #**636** (**permalink**) 29th May 2008

Looks brilliant, so good in fact I am wishing I went chrome instead of black!!

Thanks for the initial thoughts.

This is where mine is according to USPS:

At Foreign Delivery Unit, May 29, 2008, 6:58 am, AUSTRALIA
At Foreign Delivery Unit, May 28, 2008, 9:45 am, AUSTRALIA

Surely it must be close... Would love it to arrive tomorrow before the weekend.

Congrats Jamie!

Jacco Cornelissen · #**637** (**permalink**) 29th May 2008

Very nice Jamie .And beautiful shifter

**Simon Trendell** · #**638** (**permalink**) 29th May 2008

I need a pedal box :p

Very nice Jaime, I think It'll be a while before I can sink any sort of money into a cockpit.

Julien Dufresnes · #**639** (**permalink**) 1st June 2008

yes i think too that it is very cool i want the same ! lol

**Jamie Wilson** · #**640** (**permalink**) 3rd June 2008

Turning this thread into a full blown cockpit thread now, here are the images I posted in the other cockpits thread recently:

For the first time, some images of my current setup, with a new addition in the form of an SST shifter... Mainly for history-recording reasons, as the cockpit project proper starts now

The overall setup. Before today I had the G25 shifter on the left, might take me a while to adjust to shifting sequentially on the right now.

Arrived today

. Clamped to the desk until I have a solution for having it at the right height.

My ingenius pedal raising box

. My desk was built pretty high, so I had to raise them up, and it's angled such that the pedal faces are very nearly vertical.

My pride and joy, an Access Virus TI synth

My aging MIDI controller keyboard, tucked away out of use for tonight.

On the horizon:

Frex SimWHEEL

**Attila Domján** · #**641** (**permalink**) 3rd June 2008

heya dude, some pics for you

First is a pic from ECCI site about the Pocono 290mm leather, as i mentioned i felt it a bit big.

Second and third is my current 270mm Momo suede, i love it, both the smaller size fits me better, and the touch of the suede even now after more then half a year extensive usage when the surfaces where i touch is really shiny, still it is more soft feeling to touch then a leather wheel.
The pic is from the new condition status, at home i will make you one from the current look of it.

btw, all the Momo models you can get from 270-290mm size, but take care what you order, that the screwing is fitting, some wheels has 5 screw bolts others has 6. In case of my Momo with ECCI they customizing it for exactly matching the wheel base.

**Attila Domján** · #**642** (**permalink**) 3rd June 2008

Also from ECCI site a wheel, which i loved for the look of it, but it is quite large, 320mm

**Attila Domján** · #**643** (**permalink**) 3rd June 2008

what about this? 290mm Momo on the Frex site itself, so for sure it would fit to your future dream wheel

FREX GP

**Jamie Wilson** · #**644** (**permalink**) 3rd June 2008

Thanks Atti, but although I could be persuaded over the suede/leather issue, one definite requirement is that it has to be round.

**Attila Domján** · #**645** (**permalink**) 3rd June 2008

290 mm round Momo?

(ok, this i did not found on the Frex site lol)

**Jamie Wilson** · #**646** (**permalink**) 3rd June 2008

I've found a 300mm leather OMP, and a 285mm Sparco as well, but in suede...

Man, this is going to be one hard decision process...

**Attila Domján** · #**647** (**permalink**) 3rd June 2008

If you are really preferring the leather, the 290mm leather Pocono wheel in my first post is really a great choice, it has a nice grip, and also the leather has dots/wholes to breathe. I liked that wheel too, just was a bit big for my taste.

**Attila Domján** · #**648** (**permalink**) 3rd June 2008

Ok, as i promised, here is the current condition of the wheel. Shiny parts clearly coming where i regularly touch it, but the touch of it is still soft there, not harsh at all, only smooth.

**Jamie Wilson** · #**649** (**permalink**) 3rd June 2008

Thanks for sorting the pic out Atti.

I know it's only cosmetic, but I'd be wearing 4 layers of gloves to avoid a suede wheel ending up like that after only 6 months. That said, having looked around a bit more now, I'm actually starting to think that maybe the 270mm Sparco LN - the most obvious choice for the Frex wheels since the DFP days - will be okay for me after all.

I've got a little while to make my mind up anyway. I'm still in "ooooh" mode today, looking at almost every steering wheel on the market has overloaded me a bit lol :p