My wife said “Get this out of my spare room… NOW!”, so I’m giving the KP MN Sim racers first crack at this before I post it on the iRacing MidWest forum:
Pickup only in Onamia MN 56359 (about 1.5 hours north of the Twin Cities)
APEX Steering Wheel Stand
Premium Steel framework with X frame Design
Maximum stability and strength for more powerful wheels
Multi-Adjustable frame
Easy to fold and store in seconds
Comes packaged with Apex gear shifter mount which can be mounted on the left or right
Compatible with all major wheels and pedals. Pre-Drilled for Logitech, Thrustmaster and Fanatec equipment.
Apex Rear Seat Frame
Fully compatible with most standard racing seats. Easy to build and attach to the Apex wheel stand, you’ll be race ready in minutes! The frame is fabricated with heavy duty steel, and finished with a sleek black powder coating.
Wheel stand and seat frame only (no seat, wheel, or pedals are included).
Well Dom, since you’re the guy who hung out in the schoolyard, gave me a free sample (wheel and pedals), and got me hooked on this stuff, I guess I have to :
Accuforce Direct Drive wheel base
Fanatec: Formula wheel, V3 pedals, & shifter
3x27" Viotek 144hz monitors + a Samsung Odyssey VR headset
DOF Realilty X,Y, YAW motion platform + bungee mounted 5-point belts.
4-channel base shakers (2 under the pedals & one on either side of the motion frame).
i5 based computer (OCed to 4.0ghz) and an RTX2080 graphics card
Also, I jumped on this: this is a $500 bass shaker called a Clarke synthesis platinum. I got it for 175 on ebay. Some dude had 25 of them in the floor of his amusement park.
@Bimodal_Rocket If you’re talking about just the ‘formula’ wheel with the yellow/blue button surrounds, and not the wheel base, I really like the wheel; size seems appropriate, paddles are good… not the fancy magnet ones, but I don’t need that for ~$150 more. There are a lot of controls built in, like the 7-position joystick. I used JoytoKey to configure that as a mouse; it’s nice to have mouse control right there on the wheel when in VR. I would recommend for sure.
Oh in case anyone is curious, I’m up to 6 shakers now and angling for 8, total. Plan is to get better shakers for the front, initially. The BK gamer 2 are nice for a starter but they really don’t have the ooomph needed.
The pricier units that have wider range are indeed better. The Clark platinums I got reproduce from 5-200mhz. This goes well into audible. In driving, this isn’t an issue as simhub regulates the range. However, I have discovered it’s a lot of fun plugging speakers in and playing normal video games with the shakers going. The wider range of the Clarks is a bunch of fun with destiny and the like.
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