I would like to share with you guys here this amazing mod I got Leopoldo to make for me. For the longest time I was stalking on eBay looking for affordable stock car steering wheels with the intention to mod it for simracing. I mean, looking at how pricey some of these custom simracing steering wheel solutions are. I figured not many would have thought of converting these kinda steering wheels for simracing use. So I commissioned this simracing hardware maestro, Leopoldo Ramirez to make this possible. With the new high torque wheel bases like osw and accuforce. Getting ffb through to this large diameter and heavy wheel wouldn't be a problem. In fact it will actually give a natural dampening effect to some of these strong servo motors.
I have to comment that this wheel conversion is an absolutely stellar job. It's fitted with custom magnetic shifters that gives a positive click feel very similar to Simon Hodgson and Martin ascher shifters.
There's a great amount of work he has to go through to cut the steel frame of the back end to fit these shifters. All the buttons and dials work, the original red led backlights work when plugged into usb. Leo even mentioned it was one of his hardest work piece.
I got the wheel of ebay for about 200usd and an airbag cover from aliexpress for around 50.
The rest of the workmanship was Leopoldo.
Okay, enough talk. Here are the images.
Here's a work in progress video he sent me while making it.
I have to comment that this wheel conversion is an absolutely stellar job. It's fitted with custom magnetic shifters that gives a positive click feel very similar to Simon Hodgson and Martin ascher shifters.
There's a great amount of work he has to go through to cut the steel frame of the back end to fit these shifters. All the buttons and dials work, the original red led backlights work when plugged into usb. Leo even mentioned it was one of his hardest work piece.
I got the wheel of ebay for about 200usd and an airbag cover from aliexpress for around 50.
The rest of the workmanship was Leopoldo.
Okay, enough talk. Here are the images.
Here's a work in progress video he sent me while making it.
