GT Omega Prime Racing Cockpit Review! 

My wife would cry like in Gone with the Wind saying: "When, when is it gonna be enough?"

This was extremely helpful 2yrs later. Thank you!!

Karl - thank you. Your review of the seat differences between RS6 and RS9 was the piece of info I needed to launch my order for the GT Omega Prime. Thanks! Great review.

I was prepped and ready to order a much more expensive 80/20 rig a few weeks back when I randomly came across one of your videos on the Omega Prime. You saved me a few hundred dollars dude and and impressed with this thing!

Got mine on order with the xl seat. Can’t wait. Another great video Karl

Been scratching my head for a week looking for a decent well made cockpit, thanks to your well made review I’ve pre-ordered the PRIME Cockpit with a nice 10% off... Many thanks

I bought my first rig from GT Omega and it served me very well, great company and I love the way they price their kit, I always recommend them to fellow sim racers, good to see them join the extrusion gang, more competition is good for all of us.

Thanks Karl for the great detailed review of this rig. I used your discount code when I bought this one, thanks again as always for another great review. :)

You sold this to me Karl, keep up the great content, looking forward to building it this weekend!

O wow about u showed this to us! Damn I wish I didn’t have their other cockpit lol great video as always

Great review! Just put in my order for one of these along with a seat, this was the last thing I needed to see to make the decision! GT Omega is an absolute godsend when you live in Iceland and have to deal with sometimes extreme shipping rates and various fees. Absolutely can not wait to get it, put it all together and take it for a spin!

I just want to thank you for your videos, they're very informative and you're great at explaining everything, which was helpful to me since I'm totally new to sim racing. I've just ordered this racing cockpit on your recommendation. I also used your discount code to get a better price 😉

You got me! Just ordered it. Thanks for the heads up video you made prior to this one, I almost pulled the trigger on a track racer TR80 the other day. That saved me enough to afford a killer rim for my new VRS pro DD. Now all I need is a mount for my triple monitors, I guess I will find that elsewhere.

I just bought this, and the PRIME10 code still worked at checkout! 😍. The Titan price tag was $508 Whereas the Prime was $725 after the code. (European prices). Chose to bite the bullet and get a premium rig, to upgrade my desk mounted whee setup. Thank you Karl for the great reviews.

Great review and certainly helpful in my decision making. Just ordered mine this afternoon, the one with the XL seat. Nice little discount using your link as well. Many thanks 👍

The ballbag😂 great vid karl

thanks for the video and the heads up that this was coming out soon. Pre-ordered mine without the seat and hoping my existong one will bolt on to the profile. Keep up the good work

Ordered mine today with the bells and whistles Karl, used your code to save myself and nice 70 Quid. Cheers!

Nice, I got my email from GT Omega today with this cockpit in it and I thought it was what you had hidden. I just bought an Extreme Sim Racing rig since GT Omega has nothing in stock for a while now.

Looks lovely. Thx for the complete assemble video.

I actually like the look of it now with the bare aluminum. Matches your carpet and the silver accents on the seat.

Hi Karl Gosling, I have been into racing sims for quite some years now and recently I stumbled across your channel....One word....AMAZING. You have given me some great info in all your vids. Just too bad that I cannot afford any of the products as I live in South Africa and we need to import everything that I would like for my sim....So yeah the exchange rate to us makes it impossible to buy these items. But nonetheless thanks a bunch for all of these great vids and reviews. Keep doing great stuff.

Hey Karl , Think I may have message a couple of years back on this , but gotta say EXCELLENT quality videos , presentation and clarity of information is exemplary. I watch loads of reviews , assembling videos , etc Yours are some of ,if not the best I’ve seen of such things . Hope it goes strength to strength. Really excellent. Liam Bewley, old school mate .

Thank you so much for this fantastic video I just got the prime racing rig fantastic video 😀

Enjoying your channel compared to others! I've only used desk mounted but looking at options out there

what camera and tripod do you use filming the videos? I bought the GT Omega and want to have a camera for my hands and feet, like a kind of over the shoulder thing

Thanks for the great review! Used your KG code to purchase one today!!!

Nice, I knew it was going to be from GT Omega. Looks like a cross between the Evo and the P1

Peace Karl, wonderful video mate! 512 £ is almost an unreal bargain, I can't wait to get enough space to buy something like this. Keep on keeping on brother!

Just got into sim racing last week. So excited starting with the apex based off your vid snd just orders the dear extension . They don’t have any chairs so ordered one that should be here in a month lol this will be my next rig in the future

nice one Karl.... did not know about GT Omega until i saw this thank you for saving me some cash

Looks amazing, and such a great job you did. Too bad O-GT can't keep stock accessories like monitor mounts and such. You're doing too good a job!

Love your reviews! Thanks for being in the community! Is this strong enough for a direct drive?

Looking forward to seeing how you fit the motion platform & the monitor mount solution 👍

Decided on the TR160 after seeing this, thanks!

I just ordered one today!

Just placed my order through your promo, thanks for the great videos🤙.

nice review buddy, sold me on it, ordered one today, always had eyes for an aluminium profile rig and well... you sold it to me without me giving you the money so thanks. currently using a gt omega titan actually with a fanatec DD1 wheelbase and it has done a great job actually but it would get noisy and cry at me a bit if i put it to the test with higher FFB settings. im glad you pointed out it does come with some feet you just cant see them, that was my only concern as ill be using on wooden floor and i do need to move it around so hopefully the feet reduce the chance of scratches to floor or rig. cheers, cant believe i missed this one.

Preordered one because of this video!

Looks awesome just finished the video. Seat would be low for my setup. Would be awesome to see u do a full compare on your other two setups..

You can't go wrong with a GT Omega rig i've had one 8 years and the seat has one tiny stitching stretch on the left due to the clutch action i guess

Jeez🤘🏻Love the speakers bro

Great video thanks Karl I’ve just ordered mine👍

Nice video karl I was gonna go w tr160 but I do believe u got me sold on this plus w trak racer I've heard nothing but bad stuff missing parts or scratches on the rig I'm not paying a grand n having 1 thing missing or messed thanks mate

Just ordered it, thanks for saving me $34 with the code lol

Love your Videos!

Great vid Karl, GT Omega good quality kit

Hi Karl thanks for the video. I hope you are still responding to questions on this. Could you measure the space between the back of the pedal board and the front of the seat please? I need to know if I can slide a set of rudder pedals in there as I do flight sims too. Also what is the slide travel distance on the seat track please?

Good looking chassis. I’m glad there’s another option on the market. Hopefully they offer side mounts for the Podium wheel bases and front mounts for front mounted dd motors. The mounting slots on the pedal tray look weird. Like they’re running in the wrong direction. Do the t nuts have spring balls? That’s a must.

Great review man, super helpful. Ended up buying one through your link! Quick question, do yo remember if you used M6 bolts, M8 bolts, or both while assembling the rig? I’m asking because I’m thinking of attaching a Butt kicker mini to it and I know I can fit M6 bolts through it. Did you have any t nuts left over when you were done assembling? Just curious and hoping that maybe they would be M6 and that I will have some left over to be able to mount my Buttkicker.

I thoroughly enjoyed your GT Omega content. I'm using your discount code to order one myself as my first sim rig. A couple of question though, is it easy to move around the room if I wanted to rearrange my area? And do they provide screws to mount your wheel to the base? I'm using the Logitech G923.

This cockpit is currently 90$ off making it quiet affordable. I absolutely am in love with mine personally!!!

Do the feet on the bottom of the rig adjust to help with un-level floors. I'm in a basement with a horrible foundation and i am afraid the entire thing is going to be tilted. Awesome video!

Nice video as always. I really enjoy your reviews. Also where did you get that white shelve unit in the back with all the games on ?

Really good review. 💪👍

I appreciate this video, Karl. I have a question about dimensions as the website doesn't have them yet. Can you provide the wheel mount's height and the overall length and width of the base? I am interested in learning if GT Omega will provide adjustable keyboard and mouse trays as those found in the TR80/160. The pedal tray is decent enough though I wish it featured a more robust looking (or aesthetically pleasing) solution like the TR160, and the wheel deck featured some semblance of horizontal adjustment.

can never have enough "ball-bags"

How do the RS chairs fit to the rig Karl? I have a spare bucket style gaming chair (the ones you place onto a wheelbase) and im curious whether I could fit that onto the rig to save me buying the chair? Any ideas?

hello, thank you for the review ! I am just wondering about the seat if you can adjust the height ? Do you think you could add some brackets or metal plate to have a higher seat ? Thank you

Hey Karl, would you be able to confirm the lengths of profile used (just the frame)? I think it is 500mm for the shorter pieces and 1370mm for the long lengths. Just comparing it to the Trak Racer TR160. Thanks!

Hey Karl, could you please help me out? I'm planing on upgrading to this cockpit and move away from desk+wheel stand+office chair combo. I don't have much room in the guest room and I was thinking of mounting a TV to the wall and keep the cockpit parallel to the wall/TV while not in use. When I'd use it, I would rotate it 90° and make it perpendicular to the wall/TV. The problem with this position is that there isn't much room left to walk past it (since the room is narrow/there's a wardrobe on the opposite wall where TV would be) so I'd have to rotate it back when done driving so the room is usable again. I was wondering if you get the legs with it (I think there should be 6 of them) and is it easy to manipulate it (is it light enough) or would I need wheels, too? I'm a bit bigger than you so moving it wouldn't be a physical problem to me, it's the wooden (parquet) floor so I'd prefer legs than the aluminum touching it. I hope it wouldn't scratch it. So, basically, I'm asking is: Do we get the legs with it, is it light enough to pivot and if there are legs, would it scratch the wooden floor or there's some protection on them. I'd like to save those 85€ (or a bit less with your code :) ) if I can. Thanks in advance

TrackRacer TR80 (basicallyGT Omega Prime) or GT Omega Titan? I can get both of these for basically the same price +/- $50… Which do you recommend owning both?

Loving the price on this cockpit! But wondering If GT Omega has considered something like the upgrade kit for the pedals and such In the future, that you can buy for the P1-x? (P1 upgrade kit and so on)

I am very close to pulling the trigger on this setup with the RS9 seat, but theres very few reviews on the seat itself which has me hesitating purchase right now.. the chassis looks awesome and will last me for a lifetime it seems... would like to see the accessories come in soon as well! what is your honest thoughts on the Seat sir? good for long sessions?

Hey Karl, I just bought a RS9 seat through your link on another video of yours for a DOF Reality H3 that I have on order. Do you know if you need anything special to mount it on the rig? Also what harness and way to attach it do you recommend if any? Thanks.

Thanks again! Looking to move from a desk mount Logitech to one of these rigs. Also what are the 4 large speakers set up for in your room?

Karl, any feedback on mounting the Fanatec V3 pedals and finding a comfortable position? Really nice job on the videos!

Nice info as always. Im most interested in the Rs9 seat which i actually just received but looks real narrow having curved in aggressively at ther shoulders. Im not a big guy but am concerned and not built it yet cos think may have to go back. How do you find it, would another GTO O be worth swapping to?

Karl, Do you know if the Heusinkveld Sprint pedal can be directly mounted on the pedal plate or would we need Heusinkveld’s baseplate? How do you think the included pedal baseplate will perform with “stronger” pedal as, do you think flex might be an issue?

Karl great vid. The tracking referral code in your description looks like it's lost when the website pushes us Brits to the UK site - if you're getting any kick back for this you might want to qualify you're not missing out.

Great stuff Carl id have one of these if I had room. I hope my Fanatec csl elite is OK on challenge fold away one ?

So I don’t have enough space to keep the rig in the room with my pc, so I would love your opinion. How heavy and hard to move do you think this rig would be? I could put some good locking casters on this but with the shifter mounted I will definitely have to either move it vertically through the doorway or take the shifter off and maybe lift the front to clear the 90 degree angle into my hall. I have a GT Omega Apex wheel stand so I could get the rear seat attachment but the lack of adjustments worries me, will the wheel be too far back? Too high? Will the pedals be in the right spot for my leg length? Etc

Thank you

Looking at your speakers looks like you have a decent sound system , I have a 120 watt per channel 8 speaker Pioneer A/V Receiver with my racing cockpit centered in the middle . While other people / neighbor are away at work during the day I can hear and feel what the cars engine is sounding like on track and hearing the cam sound in the pits and If want I can listen to some tunes while driving and at night I have head phones so not to keep neighbors up at night when their trying to sleep . Never had a complaint or issue from my neighbors over it . Granted my simulator isn't as expensive as yours but I'm using the g 29 so doesn't need to be like I would if I had a D.D. But that's for a later day . The fact that you have no movement in your new rig should make the G29 feel better / feed back through your wheel I would think .

As an American, I always wondered about Brit driving, yes, it's on the "other" side of the road, but do the pedals reverse too? I'm nearly old as dirt, I never knew. I see now, the pedals are the same, they are not reversed.

How would I go about mounting the inverted Fanatec V3 pedals to this rig and do I need any add-ons to do so? Great video :)

I was thinking rs9 as its my first cockpit...now I'm thinking maybe this lol

This with a fanatec csl dd would be an excellent setup for the money

How hard are LFE's to mount to this rig? I'm really considering this as the tr80 often comes missing hardware.

SimLab tr1 teamredline is good enough? What do u think ? I cannot get this full size rigs because of the space and weight

Hi… can the shifter bracket (main aluminum bit) be put on the right hand side? Cheers

Thanks for the review! Does it look like the wheelbase mount is backwards though?

Overall seems great but the fact that there is no DD1 bracket version is the only reason I'm not getting this over Trak Racer TR80 at the moment, even though this one seems to be more on par with TR160 at a price below that of the TR80. Bah, still cant decide which one to buy...

You may want to switch out that RS9 seat for a different one. I have the RS9 with my ART cockpit, been using it for about a year now. I find the seat back very uncomfortable after a couple hours of use. I usually end up stuffing a pillow behind my lower back.

I know it's two years ago, but it would have been easier to bolt the seat rails to the seatbase first, then you wouldn't have had to do all that measuring up

Have you thought about going GT Style / inverted with your pedals instead of the F1 style ? I did mine , I actually like it better than the stock peddle setup they come in

Now i have to save more. Great! :D

That was like watching a kid in a sweet shop.

You are sure the black-plates are out of steel? You did the magnet-test? Even you looks strong, this pieces seems a bit light for steel in your hands and with this thickness I know aluminium doesn't flex at all. I'm using a 8 mm thick plate for the wheelplate and it's super sturdy, but fortunatly more easy to drill holes in it compare to some wood-plates. Also steel is actually more flexible than aluminium per weight, why racing bicycles out of steel usually provide a more comfortable ride due to the flex than similar bikes out of aluminium frames.

Thanks for the discount code, order placed hopefully a nice early Xmas present

Hi Karl. The seat you are using is out of stock and the cheaper version isn’t the colour I’m looking for. I take it any seat would fit as long as it had a subframe? Did the bolts for your seat come with the full package? I’m thinking of going frame only and buying a real car seat. Cheers 👍🏻

Karl, I’ve just purchased the art monitor stand that I use with a playseat set up, was wondering what the width of tge prime is? Wondering if the art will fit over it 🤷🏻‍♂️

Cheers mate! I am about to pre-order but need to know if caster wheels can be added? I noticed track racer has some available for their tr160 rig, could I throw those on to this if I pre-order? Assuming the fitting should match the profile base? I absolutely must be able to wheel this out of the way when not in use. Only thing holding me back from purchase right away.

i think ya cant beat the look of a profile rig its a beautyful thing the best rig i have used is by simracing componants in italy really heavy duty stuff but its $$$ beats the p1x though

It looks really cool but the pedal plate seems bit light and thin in my opinion. Specially when it comes to load cell pedals. Did you try it with them at all? It looks like it might have some bit of flex (I used to have gt omega apex wheel stand and it flexes alot with load cell and that pedal tray looks identical to it). Also the price of this is quite high, even without the seat it's almost 700€ compared that to Simlab's GT1-evo for only 400€ without seat. I have gt1-evo and I can tell it's bang for the buck and this looks a bit cheap imo. I don't know if gt omega ran out of budget when it comes to pedal plate but if that's the case they should have rather used like 40x80 profile and make sturdier pedal tray.

Thanks for the review and for what looks like an awesome deal (I have not even finished the review but I like what I see). However, it looks like GT Omega does not want my money, the US site is not up...yet :-)

Not currently available on the aus site :/

OK... just ordered the GT Omega Prime, but added some simlab accessories. One very important note for you EU customers!! Even though gt omega HAS a eu-website, you WILL have to pay additional customs and tax on top of the price! This is not advertised clearly on their website, and it's a shame they didn't.

I can see condensation on your window. That means your double-glazing windows are broken. Aluminium profiles can't help with that.

Would the Monstertech MTX HOTAS / JOYSTICK module work with the GT Omega Prime?