If i was to buy everything again today with a budget of $1500 i would get a simagic alpha, simagic GTS wheel and simjack UT pedals. Id then build a rig out of wood and buy a car seat from a junkyard. Best bang for the buck and most importantly the only things you will potentially want to upgrade from that set up are the seat and rig which were the cheapest things, my old wood rig was free because I had some spare wood in my garage and my junkyard porsche seat was $25. Also a decent wood rig with a car seat can be sold for more than the cost to build it. Wood rigs and real car seats are both sturdy enough to not compromise your racing ability at all. Meaning you can upgrade when you want to not because you have to. The options presented in this video are good but very basic and not very well researched. As long as console compatibility is not a concern then the option i presented is by far the best value for money. As for a screen i would personally just get a basic 27in monitor. Nothing special at all, as cheap as possible and at least 1080p. I wasted so much money on an ultrawide and now never use it because VR for sim racing is incomparably awesome. Spend the money on a good used VR headset. I got a HP reverb G2 for $150. Quest 2s and others are also readily availble on the used market very cheaply. Ive spent well over $5,000 on sim racing at this point. If i was to do it all again today i could get the above which would be functionally almost identical for a whole lot less.
Your suggestion is awesome, not intending any negative on it. BUT for me personally and unfortunately VR makes me nauseous. But that money imo spent on the VR than could be spent on a better and/or multiple monitors. Like I said my 2 cents which today is about worthless... Lol
for ps5 you can get an adapter that you can use moza. If you have tools for wood you can make your own cockpit. there are plenty of pictures of different kinds of wood cockpits
This can be a difficult question to answer, because it heavily depends on the size of the driver. That being said, a number of reviewers with 5' 10 frames said the large size was comfortable for them. Especially if this is your first rig build, going for the large size may be the safer choice.
That's personal preference. To be fair you can also buy any used car seat or even racing seat from places like Summit Racing etc. as long as you have tools and able to make adapters to mount.
Should you not even mention Fanatec due to the state they are in. That makes you look bad already for even suggesting that company! Unless you know something positive has transpired lately that I missed regarding Fanatec?
While your comment is true in your perception, and I don't know how bad as I haven't googled it and got Jacked personally when a GPU reseller went under... Keep in mind the comment is an opinion and feeling not necessarily "fact"
Depends and is opinion. Most decent gaming PCs start at 2k for "decent". I got one on sale with I9 and 4070 ti for $2500. That said, a $400 set up would be horrendous use of the PC. Obviously my opinion too. 1000 to 1500 would be okay as long as I can easily swap between vehicle and flight sim.
No need for that much toque for sim racing. Who uses 8Nm torque while racing? Unless you want to simulate heavy crashing of which if you are not planing to crash while racing, 3Nm is more than enough. All modern vehicles have power steering it doesn’t require much torque to turn.
I have a 23nm wheelbase. Normally I use around 10-16nm. Occasionally cranking it up to the full torque for old F1 and lemans cars. Yes modern road cars have power steering but most formula cars do not. F4, F3, and F2 cars do not have power steering. Only F1 does. The non power steering formula cars reportedly require around 15-20nm of torque in reality. GT3>4 cars do have power steering but still leave a lot up to the driver. Usually they have around 10-15nm of torque at the steering wheel. This is because in order to effectively communicate the cars behaviours in racing a certain amount of torque is required. I had a Logitech G920 prior to upgrading and that had 2.3nm I can personally confirm that it could not even produce the steering force in my modern power steering BMW 3 series. It has closer to around 5-8nm at the steering wheel during spirited driving. 3nm will tell you what's happening in the same way that rumble motors in an Xbox controller will indicate when you've shot a gun in a game. Having said that a rumble motor feels pretty different from a real guns recoil. 15nm is real recoil, 3nm is a rumble motor.
It's all about preference and type of vehicle. As an older guy, I tend to agree. Now, many race cars actually don't have power steering for a few reasons. 1) fluid on track is an issue in most cases banned, same as coolant as a fyi. 2) takes power away. Every spec of power is required when you have constraints on engine specs. 3) quick ratio manual boxes with the right geometric steering linkages and speed makes it actually feel like power steering and requires very little input from the driver but enough feedback to keep from over steering. I'm more experienced with the local weekend racing and dirt track than "professional" so take it more as an FYI then say what Nascar's or F series as the other commuter mentioned.
