I’ve had my gs5 and gbelt on order from Feb 15th, so if anyone is ordering now and expecting one in 10 days, dear god I hope mine will come soon!!
SimXperience GS-5 G-Seat + DBOX 4250i actuators
- Thread starter Alvise
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I have dbox 1st gen on simlab with GS5, no comnpatiblity problem.
Only downside of the GS5 is the motor noise, which is high and also always sound like the motor is dying or something, I mean they are not just wining noise but pretty unsual sounds for electric motors. I especially dislike earing noise of struggle when for example the car is stopped.. you can ear motors going back and forth for no reason, without feeling anything. The smoothing function could be improved. especially when compared to d-box which has such a high quality feel, silent and motion is super smooth.
But if you ahve a headset you will not hear it at all, so for most of us it is not an issue.
The seat structure is also a bit flimsy. it is very thin metal. BEfore I had a real porsche gt3 and it was so much sturdier, I think I could feel more of the d-box feel. The GS5 is so flexible a lot of the dbox vibration are lost I think.
the concept of the GS5 is spot on. But if they coudl make it:
- more rigidity
- silent
- smoother motion
then you would have ... a -box motion seat
Only downside of the GS5 is the motor noise, which is high and also always sound like the motor is dying or something, I mean they are not just wining noise but pretty unsual sounds for electric motors. I especially dislike earing noise of struggle when for example the car is stopped.. you can ear motors going back and forth for no reason, without feeling anything. The smoothing function could be improved. especially when compared to d-box which has such a high quality feel, silent and motion is super smooth.
But if you ahve a headset you will not hear it at all, so for most of us it is not an issue.
The seat structure is also a bit flimsy. it is very thin metal. BEfore I had a real porsche gt3 and it was so much sturdier, I think I could feel more of the d-box feel. The GS5 is so flexible a lot of the dbox vibration are lost I think.
the concept of the GS5 is spot on. But if they coudl make it:
- more rigidity
- silent
- smoother motion
then you would have ... a -box motion seat
That is really concerning and would cause me to cancel my order. I currently have an ultra sturdy racetech seat. Can other people chime in about sturdiness?
Have you read HoiHman's GS-5 Review?
GS-5 is based on an SFI-certified Kirkey Racing Seat.
There may be more rigid fiber-reinforced plastic seats...
SimXperience chose a large seat; many need to add padding for good fit.
I read it. Also spoke with simxperience after watching the Simpit review where it really looked flimsy. But in the Simpit review, they had it on sliding rails and the mechanism was really far back. Simxperience said it was not an issue. I need a large seat so no concerns there.
One thought is that it might be a certified seat in a car, but perhaps how it is mounted in a real car gives it rigidity it does not have in a sim rig?
Not sure, but that is why it might be great to get clarification from people here (of course including a description of mounting type and rig type would help keep the comparison apples to apples)
One question I do have is how thick and rigid are the mounting brackets?
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Fair point; Kirkey seat brackets are 3/16-inch:
SimXperience seemingly provides different ones:
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Here are pics of two things on my current Racetech seat:
The rear mount bolts (high up on the back of the seat) which in the sim world can be used to mount Gbelt (awesome)
The beefy Racetech brackets. They look like the kirkey brackets. (Also awesome)
Note that Racetech has a sim specific seat and brackets, and they are absolute trash. I returned them and got the Racetech 4119W.
The rear mount bolts (high up on the back of the seat) which in the sim world can be used to mount Gbelt (awesome)
The beefy Racetech brackets. They look like the kirkey brackets. (Also awesome)
Note that Racetech has a sim specific seat and brackets, and they are absolute trash. I returned them and got the Racetech 4119W.
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It's the Kirkey 47 series, which oddly enough is not available on the Kirkey website anymore.
Could this mean it's out of production and we might see a GS-6 when SimXperience runs out of stock because they need to change to a different seat?
A question like that was asked in the previous generation SimXperience customer forum,
to which I vaguely recall the answer at that time being something like:
- SimXperience does not stockpile them
- Kirkey continues to make them for SimXperience
- that series is similar to another still being sold
I reached out to them last week and they said that kirkey makes a specific seat for them. Specifically, they said “They [Kirkey] build a custom seat to our specifications. The brackets the come with the GS-5 are a standard Kirkey part suitable for use in a real vehicle.”
10 days ago. They haven't shipped it yet while I've already received the g-belt
Ah great thanks you for letting me know
Just got a tracking number for the seat/belt
Got mine too! Yay…..
Placed my order in early March and got my g-belt this weekend. One thing I did not realize is that is comes with no hardware to mount it up. If you are mounting to a seat, you need a couple M6 bolts. Probably around 15 mm as I think they say the insert is threaded 12 mm plus a little for the seat and washer.
