Serious bidnez.
Looks good!
I have a Momo mounted to my wheel. Unfortunately I'll be taking it off in a few months to put it in my real race car.
For the triple screen users out there:
(Skip to 11 minutes to see some driving action)
And a review in english:
Practice I have been playing nothing else recently and I've only been driving the Porsche. I seem to recall you being plenty quick on Forza 4 back in the day so I'm sure you can get there, moving the brake balance forward on the aggressive preset helped here. Also note you can close off the brake ducts in the hotlap mode as car damage is turned off, this is worth quite a bit in straight line speed.
Kunos have reset the times on this challenge as they made some changes to the track grip. It's a little slower now and my best time on the leaderboard is now a 2:01:8xx
Oof. My shifter arrived today.
It is the tits.
I've attached it to this for now, as the standard shifter mount location on my seat is arse. I'll buy something with a little more bracing next time I'm out. The little orange washers are made of fibre, sorta like engine gasket material. I though't they'd prevent me scratching the duco on the shifter body
Here it is fitted up to begin. Might attach a cup holder here I dunno.
I duly fired up Content Manager and loaded LA Canyons, along with the utterly brilliant Singer Porsche 911 4.0, which I downloaded just for this occasion (both of which can be found on Race Department).
It is absolutely sublime, cruising around. THIS is what sim racing is all about.
In-place, adjusted for height, easy reach. Fanatec wheel, load cell pedals, H-pattern shifter, perfect driving position.
I might say I got a little bit emotional as I was punting that Porsche, blipping on the downshift. At one point, the Porsche's tail end got characteristically happy, so I dropped it down a gear and added revs. A dab of oppo and I was away.
I also tried the McLaren F1 GTR at Spa. Oh my word. Say no more.
I might try and record a bit of video of me driving around like a mad bastard. What do you guys reckon?
Careful, it’s girthy.
Here we go, much much betterer.
I went to the hardware store and bought some better brackets. These are lighter than the other ones, but they're braced to hold shelving. It still jolts due to the forces, especially when being used as a sequential, but it doesn't wobble around any more.
I also added a little extra bit of hardware in order to locate the spare knob when not in use, stop it rolling away...
Is that K'nex?
I'm going to totally try that with the relocation. I'm constantly hitting my knuckles on the wheel shelf.