Hi folks,
I decided to build a racing rig when I still was not satisfied with 3 monitors placed on a desk. I could not find a good compromise between sense of speed, FOV, and cars/tracks being distorted due to FOV. I experimented with two possible ways how to setup the monitors before I started to build: First is same viewing distance to the center of all three monitors but lower horizontal FOV, second is different viewing distance to the center of all three monitors but higher horizontal FOV due to larger screen angle. From driving realism I was way more satisfied with the latter one. That also fitted my plans of keeping the total width of the rig low as I don´t have to much space in the room. I was inspired by the rig on this page (
http://www.flash.ae/sim_rig/). However, I did modify the H-Shifter alignment slightly and made a completely different monitor stand to fit my FOV needs.
The rig basically consists of:
-Whole bunch of PVC tubes 50mm diameter, 2.4mm wall thickness.
-Some wood, a lot of screws, black spray color and carbon foil.
-G27 wheel, shifter, pedals.
-Thrustmater TH8A shifter.
-Triple Dell U2414H.
-Leather seat from local scrapyard.
-Lenovo 7" tablet and Samsung Ace 2 for dashboard.
What else:
-The monitor stand is completely decoupled from the rest to avoid shaking at fast wheel changes and manual shifts.
-G27 H-shifter is modified to work as a sequential shifter and can be rotated by 90 degrees to a position where it does not disturb the use of the Thrustmaster H-shifter. That way you can either use paddles or sequential shifter or H-shifter, whatever you prefer or suits the car.
-The seat itself was only 30 Euros at a local scrapyard. Seat alignment is still full functioning within the rig.
-Total dimension of the rig is 150x120x120cm (LxWxH).
-Horizontal FOV is ca 170°.
Some photos:
Photo from behind the seat, the angles on the screen are distorted when viewed from this position:
Photo from the position of my head:
Rig with PC desk in place:
Since photos do not really capture the FOV I made two short videos:
Greetings,
Knightly_