I play Nascar Heat 5 on steam and I also play Raceroom on steam. I have the same pedals as you but i use the clutch pedal as my brake pedal. I like that there's more pedal travel and just feels more comfortable natural on my feet. My question is if i can use the brake mod on the clutch pedal and if it would make braking more consistent?
Super exited for my new gear to arrive, I've decided on starting my sim racing experience with the Fanatec CSL GT DD PRO for PlayStation with the 8nm power supply and Metal QR1. For the cockpit I opted for the Playseat Challenge X since it's apparently a few centimeters wider than the original. I did purchase a PSVR 2 and Playstation adapter for the PC. However, VR may not be my cup of tea since I have weak sea legs. No ready to give up on it yet though. My gear should be trickling in within the next couple of weeks.
Bro, that looks accelerating and horrifying and fun all at once! It's annoying when they bump into you but then again it looks extremely challenging to not bump into other cars. Everyone is eyeing the same corners and battling for the next position. 62.4%, my inspiration levels are increasing.
Baby Lewis Ham! Many blessings to you & your family. Viewed a few of your uploads and they are truly inspiring. I'm literally looking to purchase a second hand set up but I've yet to pull the trigger. I'm seeking to sike myself up to build a simple entry level set-up (playseat challenge & G923) but I haven't pull the trigger yet, looking for the least expensive offering. I tried a ps3 race wheel with a fold out dinner table and foldable chair and the novelty wore out really quick, the wheel lived in my closet till I sold it for $50. I'm definitely going to view some more of your video in order to hype myself up, I'm at 62% willing to venture to this 2nd hand set up but hopefully your videos can boost my desire to 82%. Hope to see some new uploads. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. 👊
@Leo.SKDXL05 the Playseat Challenge G923 setup is an excellent entry setup! I used that setup for a few years and slowly pieced together my Trak Racer setup. I highly recommend it! It's pretty solid for the price. Keep me posted on your journey to find an affordable setup.
@@JCCollinsRacing we are way past affordable! lol...I opted to jump in at the lower mid tier with the Fanatec GT DD Pro for Playstation. I did go with the Playseat Challenge X since I require the foldability. I also purchased a PSVR 2 but I'm not too crazy about the motion sickness tbh. I'm doing a load of research on trail braking and different physics for different games. I'm not sold on the load cell brakes yet but that would be for the future.
really wish this was real, if it seems too good to be true that's cause it is. the placebo effect is still unexplained in science but it's extremely easy to observe in reality.
Great vid 😃 I just took the plunge & bought my 1st steering wheel being this g29. Only thing that bothers me is exactly is the stock setup on braking. My question is, can anyone give me the length (from eye-to-eye) on this thing? Im thinking on using an alloy dampened shock from an rc with a stiff spring Tia
Thank you! I don't know the distance, but the spring mood set I bought did the trick! Here is a link for a similar spring set. MORICHS Upgrade Mod Brake and Throttle Pedal Spring Kit for LOGITECH G27 G29 G920 Racing Wheel a.co/d/bzv8QGh
@@JCCollinsRacing already tore it apart and figured out. Used HPI alloy shocks off a C1 using 80w oil and the stiffest spring from the pedal set (silver) Feels hydraulic and i love it Thanks for the response 😉
no any wheel still wont work since the motor uses about 0.5 amps and its combine both making 1 amps and also if u use 5 amps it will only take 1 amp to the battery so the 4 amps left is useless.
There is a full motherboard in it that controls the whole system of it including power supply so it will not change a bit BUT if its asking for more power a heavier psu will help it 😊😊
me playing assetto corsa in VR finally made me go out and buy this setup. to be honest a quest 3 is probably cheaper than a big monitor and mount. and is pretty much night and day in terms of immersion
Heres the problem: There is probably a reason why Logitech limited the amount of torque, as you may end up stripping gears or damaging something else. So if you want your G29/G923 to last better just to limit it to stock power unit.
Hi mate I have the 8nm as well but I use an Omega racing wheel stand, you just have to put in the office chair and you are set. It's super rigid and works very well. However that thing is freaking heavy and super annoying to move around. I was wondering how it is with the playseat challenge, is it light? What about stability, do you have a lot of staking?
Will probably use this method for my Moza SRP pedals, everyone really exaggerates how much these things flex under load yours barely flexes at all with a load cell
@collinclary5762 yea, there is some flex, but it was not unbearable. I mainly felt the flex in extreme moments, like crashing or when the wheelbase would clip. But about 85% of the time, it was fairly smooth. Let me know how your setup turns out. Thanks for watching!
So i have 2 buttkickers connected, one on the pedals and one on the seat. Is it my understanding you can’t separately control haptics to the fromt from the rear? Its a global control? I really want to send the rpms to the pedals but NOT TO THE SEAT? How do i do that?
I'm about to receive this weekend my Fanatec DD pro 8Nm and I have the same playseat which I used to play with my G29. I'm going to try this at home and see how it works :) thank you bro!
Of course you dont feel any changes! First of all, im an electrical engeneer, so let me explain, you are absolutely wrong if you think that a power supply with more amps could give more power to your wheel motors, only in the case that you have an old power supply with less power than the wheel demands, (sorry for my english i know that sucks), so man, if you wanna give power to the logitech you need to change internal motors and to add a little electronic controller to remap or to escale the old range voltage to the new range, if you dont know anything about electricity please get a little bit more of information, this type of video sucks because it very easy to see that you dont have no idea of this and supose misinformation. Cheers
@@LexKing96 tendría que echarle un ojo muy detenidamente, pero hay proyectos en RU-vid de gente que si llega a cambiarlos pero al final acaba encontrandose con el desafío de que más fuerza también significa más resistencia y puedes hacer polvo los dientes del engranaje.
You can upgrade the Fanatec 5NM with a new power supply that's stronger, so how does it work in that case only increasing power? Not to mention a ton of hilarious videos I've seen where people replace batteries in small children's electric cars and it increases performance 5x so why is that? And he claims that it was a noticeable upgrade?
@@joemay5the difference with fanate is that the motor is already waiting for 7.5A, but the 5nm PS only gives 3.5A. So when you upgrade you’re actually giving the power the motor expects
Hello guys, Excellent video, very explanatory, very easy to understand, I'm going to do the same in my Playseat Challenge with Base Gt dd pro... thank you.
I just measured 42+ watts draw with spikes higher than that just fighting the center spring on my xbox home screen and it kept creeping up as i held it (probably from heating up and inefficiency increasing). I read somewhere that the mosfets are rated to 2Amps which would automatically make the stock 1.75amp power supply under rated and even with a 2amp you have to account for sudden spikes and how much the stock psu voltage sags under sudden spikes etc. im sure that you would benefit from at least a 2.5amp supply. Im also sure this is logitechs way of making the wheel more reliable by under powering it for preventing earlier wear and overheating when inexperienced user turn everything up to 180% and clip the hell out of it. Im pretty sure it will be fine since you are not over volting it but you have to be mind-full of clipping now because it will be able to overheat quicker since you are supplying the full current to those Fets when they demand it. I would like actual measurements on torque from the motor but im pretty sure ill be able to record higher watts using the higher amp supply during heavy use of the ffb.
@@JCCollinsRacing I ordered a 24volt 5amp supply im receiving today. Once I measure the watts its using by connecting it to my power station and doing the same center spring fighting test ill report back but im anticipating higher wattage since it was pretty much maxing out the stock PSU immediately when applying force to the wheel during centering spring mode.
@youngbeliz6177 thank you! At the lower settings, it is much more quiet. But if it is too low, you can't feel it. It takes some time, but you can strike the right balance of feedback and noise.
@davidpistek6241 I completely know what you mean. I like the idea of the new system and don't mind a bit of a grind, but I will admit that this grind is a bit long for each car. If the amount of cxp needed for each level was lower, it wouldn't be so bad.
I like suzuka short or road America short for dialing in my cars but a 4 lap free play gets 200 or 400 car points so a exhaust or a race exhaust takes a couple hours to get performance from a car say 300 to 400pp I found that old mulsane can build a car fast but 400 pp on there is a long time
I like the new system that is coming out (or at least implied to be coming out) where every single upgrade is unlocked from level 1. And leveling your car just gives you CPs you can spend on those upgrades. This IMO solves the majority of the issues. It still requires you to drive a car and get to know it instead of just buying a car and fully upgrading it because it is the current meta car. It means you won't have to go 2 or 3 races without upgrades or with the wrong upgrades while you wait for the ones you want to unlock but also means you can throw in the mods you NEED without needing to get to level 25 or something. If your car feels good but you just want to tweak the transmission, no problem, 1 race and you should have enough CP to get a sport or race trans and pop it in. Just need more power? 1 race should give you plenty for some engine upgrade to boot HP. If you are trying to bring a car up 2 classes you are going to need to put some time in. Oh, and I have about 20+ cars at level 50. It's really not that bad. I get them leveled to about 15 and tuned where I want then run them in multiplayer to fill out the final levels. I try to only run under-leveled cars so I am always progressing one and it sort of forces me to keep trying new stuff. I don't buy new cars unless I NEED to for some event.
I see fact that tunning is still locked behind top-tier parts as a proof, whole idea of grindlocking parts was created, decided, and rubberstamped on same meeting, There is no way this wasn't noticed and brought up during playtesting.
It take 1 hr and 28 mins to get a car to level 30. If thats too much for you then you are just a lazy impatient idiot. The biggest 2 problems with the game in my opinion are Online Matchmaking and the OP Leaderbitch cars ( Mx5's Cosmo's (because of deals with Mazda) Corolla, P550. Exocet 18. Subaru 13 etc. Car classes are meant to put similar cars together and not have any that are overpowered and underweight. it ends up with endless online lobby's of these cars and makes the rest of the garage pointless. I personally block anyone who drives one of these ( over 500 so far) and am getting to a point where they are less frequent and the races are much better
@andrewharrington6953 or maybe we are people with other things that occupy our time, but we still appreciate the system, and that's why we make suggestions to improve it rather than abandon it altogether. It's not that the system takes too long to level up a car, it's more about having more meaningful upgrades unlocked for specific cars when we need it. It's a bit frustrating having to do a full hour and a half (1 hour, 28 minutes according to you) to unlock an upgrade that you have immediately identified as an issue with the car (whatever the upgrade may be for the car being driven). Regarding the OP cars, I agree that they exist and there are a lot of other issues in the game that needs addressing, and I agree that multiplayer has a long way to go with a ton of issues, but this space for this video is to discuss possible ways to improve this specific system. I plan to do more videos discussing the systems and bugs (like OP cars in multiplayer), but don't insult other players' opinions because they are not willing or able to spend 1 hr 28 mins on every car but still want to enjoy the game. Your opinion is always welcome here, but deliberately insulting others is not cool and won't be tolerated. Thank you for pointing out the cars that need to be nerfed in multiplayer! I truly appreciate that and will point them out when I am finished with my multiplayer review video. I would love to hear more from you regarding multiplayer because I don't have a ton of experience with multiplayer yet.
@@JCCollinsRacing no serious insult meant I just get fed up of the impatient generation who want everything now and if they can't they just whinge and moan. That's by the by though as from what I understand they are getting rid of that system in the next update
@andrewharrington6953 I get where you're coming from. It is going to be interesting how much of shift update 5.0 will bring with them dropping the system. I think this will be an experiment, though. Not sure if it will be permanent. I think they are looking for a focus group to test it out.
after leveling 30+ cars, I agree with your car level unlock idea. Its not difficult to get to 20 in the current system, but then theres not enough points to actually do all the upgrades needed to make a car tunable. Some need to drive a car should be there. Tuning takes time, each tweak is its own game and unique to each car. Having to wait for an hour for a change that you already know is more important than a flywheel, is rather difficult to accept after the 20th car. I get that lots of people just want to download a tune and use it right after buying the car, but that does remove the game aspect that keep this game in the arcade/sim category.
I personally don’t get why people hate on the new system, you have to learn the car before you can upgrade it, that makes sense. You get a feel for the car. Good example is the mx5 challenge where you start off with some slow car and by the time you do the 5th race you’ve learnt how to handle it and can have a car on stock tyres and put all the points into power and still overtake racers on race tyres
I have a playseat rig. Just bought the hard kit. Just affraid the stiffness will be too hard and mess my rig. Would it had been better to buy the medium option? I think 3drap changed the product and made an upgrade. Hope it works ok. Thanks!
@DaniloGuic it won't be too stiff. I ran this upgrade on my Playseat for a long time and had no issues at all with it being too stiff. I hope this helps. Thanks for watching!
