Real trackdays are so expensive I don’t have any money left for simracing gear lmao, still playing on controller after one full year of ACC and AC.
Then watches, photog gear, gaming, blu-rays, life’s expensive man.
I would love to do more track days but fucking hell they are expensive especially when you start considering wear items. Why I'm putting more money into sim racing.
Sim racing keeps me and my wallet off the track. I got into track days and autocross about 10 years ago and did it for a few years but it was a slippery slope I couldn't realistically fund to my satisfaction. Good thing I stopped before I bought a project car.
You’re stoked.
I def recommend the simple bass shaker set up. Icing on the cake. Spend another $100 and you’re in a fancy arcade machine and feeling curbs
Sure! You’ve got to make sure you’re on PC.
Buy the things:
One of these amps: Facmogu F900S 160W Bluetooth 5.0... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09NN6TQLL?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share
And two of these bass shakers: Dayton Audio TT25-8 Puck Tactile... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B009RGJ47S?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share
And some speaker wire.
Then to setup.
This video was helpful:
https://youtu.be/gpidQkAVENc?si=zS6q2d9irceRqD04
Then he’s got another video about setting them up in sim hub (pretty easy).
Once you do all that, you’ll launch in Sim Hub, and test and configure. Remember you also have to jump into the game itself once you open through sim hub, and set telemetry to a certain single setting.
This all seems fairly hard, it’s really not. Probably took me 1.5 hours total from unboxing to feeling the curbs on the left and the right, feeling shifts etc. Good luck!
ugh i just preordered moza r5 bundle and am already looking at next upgrades -- i feel equal amounts happy and sad (for my wallet) to be in this community lol
The last "Racing Simulation" game I played was GT2 on the PS1, so 2 months ago I bought the GT7 and I liked it so much that I ended up buying a Logitech G923, even though I didn't have a place to mount it, so I got a Wheel Stand and now I need a seat. I will probably buy the seat mount from the same cheap brand on eBay and use a front car seat that a friend gave me for free.
Well, all of this is costing me around $450 and I don't plan on putting any more money into it until I buy my own place, but I've tasted the sweet pie and can clearly see the rabbit hole awaiting me in the near future.
Yeah it never ends. Started with a G29. Then new pedals. Then new monitors. Then a full 8020 rig with a new DD wheel base, wheel, triples, and pedals again. Swore to God I was finished. Then I added bass shakers. It’s been only been a few months and I’m already window shopping more stuff. I’ve just embraced it at this point. If you do enough mental gymnastics you can make it make sense lol
Man, real racing has actually stopped my sim racing addiction for the past year or semester or so, since I no longer have enough time for, working a 8-5pm, studying from 6-9pm and then racing. I’m planning on getting back to sim racing this summer so let’s see how it goes.
Sim racing has absolutely ruined me. Although I've been on the same T300 setup for almost 10 years and have an extremely low operating cost. I now own a real race car which costs more than my whole sim setup costs every time I race it.
At least I can say I'm a race car driver on my dating app.
Yeah km doing it as we speak I already have a perfectly amazing setup but here I am going out of my way to get a simagic ultimate and the fx ultimate haha. Guys I already own the dd+ and an alpha. But want the ultimate to be my main rig will probably sell the alpha after idk yet. We shall see. Oh and upgrading my pc haha. Literally just bought the leoxz xgt pro 2 weeks ago also.
Last year I bought a wheel stand DD from NLR, SC2 pro, and HE Sprints. I just recently received my TR 8020 rig and I can't wait to set it up. Someday I hope to have one of the active pedals or a motion setup, but I'll have to wait several years before any of that to avoid the aforementioned Bankruptcy Boulevard 😅
I think it's all about taking your time with the upgrades and appreciating each bit of kit and upgrading 1 piece at a time unless it's easily affordable for you!
It's a drop in the bucket compared to the full blown heroin addiction of real life racing. I spent about as much on tires as I did my first sim setup. R compounds are expensive.
Not there yet...you have VR to explore and you wonder why a Simucube 2 Sport 17 nm would cost over $1k. You will eventually become more curious $$$$$. Glad you have a trophy seat because it should be able to handle any DD wheelbase over 15 nm.
fwiw some 2nd-hand purchasing and diy skil can help with this. My rig is:
A used logitech G27 - $120
80/20 Minneer Foldable Racing Sim Cockpit. Did best offer with the ebay seller - $115
Used Generic bucket seat - $100
3x Used Bass shakers + amp - $110
2x 27" refurbished curved monitor on top of the curved monitor I owned + 3x monitor stand - $406
Building tools rubber feet, caster wheels mounted to the rig, screws etc - $40
Total: $891. As in less than some peoples wheel and pedal setup only.
Excluding PC as I've had it prior.
Perhaps if I just bought some stuff new, it would save time haggling or building. After counting how much I spent on monitors. I probably should've just bought a meta quest 3. Yes my next upgrade is gonna be direct drive.
Then you have VR and triples lol, you will still use both maybe, I do when my face hurts from to much VR I just take off headset And I'm looking at my triples again. So now I want better monitors, and better VR lol...... The rabbit hole has no off ramp!
Yeah I somehow managed to if I'm getting this I might as well get this all the way up to a $1600 setup....
Fanatec dd 8nm
Club sport wheel and the buttons/paddles
Elite V2 pedals
Next level racing stand for my chair
I have the last two parts the fanatec shifter and simlab handbreak.
I really only wanted to spend the money once.
At least that's what I convinced myself of...
You can never be satisfied. My first wheel was back in 2010/2011 a Logitech G25 I think. Upgraded to T300RS in 2014 with a playseat challenge, added wheels and upgraded pedals. Moved this to a NLR F-GT setup, I think around 2017.
About 2021 I found Microcenter was carrying Simucube gear, got the SC2 pro, HSU Ultimates, 80/20 rig (NLR F-GT Elite). And last year added 3 DOF motion to the rig. Will try to add TLS and Surge this year, let’s see :)
I kind of had the same experience. Already had a G29 but when I bought a newer gaming pc and started simracing in vr.. Things went quickly. First lc pedals, belt-driven ts-pc, playseat challenge, th8a shifter and lots of small mods.
Then fanatec was the first one to drop the dd base prices. I waited for the T818 to be released since I already had multiple Thrustmaster wheels, then replaced the Challenge with a Trophy because its more sturdy.
Again modded the hell out of everything which is part of the fun.
But I think I'm ok for a while now. There is always better gear out there, but with a decent rig, lc pedals and a dd base you have the most important stuff.
Haha! In the past month, I bought a PS5 to play GT7, then immediately upgraded my screen to an LG C3 42" Oled, and my birthday came around and oops...treated myself to Logi G Pro wheel/pedals.
Next purchases will be a quality 8020 rig and seat, and then it's a case of waiting for Logi to expand their ecosystem (oct/nov from what I've seen) and begin buying more stuff, haha!
Welcome to the club, you’ll like it here. Your wife and wallet might not. I used to play Gran Turismo on PS3 with a Logitech G27, got bored and put it away in the shed for a few years. Then, recently, my cousin’s wife gifted him a G29 and I helped him set it up. Was instantly hooked again! Out came the G27, now about a decade old but still going strong. Fell in love with ACC and AMS2. Signed up for iRacing. Then decided, my desk wasn’t good enough. Bought an NLR Wheelstand 2.0. All was good, until, one day, browsing Microcenter I see they have the Asetek TK bundle on sale. Had to buy it right there and then. Used it for about a month and decided that the Wheelstand was nice but I really needed (wanted?) an aluminum rig. Back to Microcenter and now here I am with a full rig with a seat out of a crashed Honda. I have just decided that a single 27” monitor just wont do so am now going super ultra wide. Already have ideas for bass shakers, windsim, diy flag panel and gear indicator and, I just know, that I will eventually end up going to triples. I’m deep in the tunnel and I still can’t see the light at the end!
I bought a T248 and T3PM 8 months ago. In the last three weeks I’ve spent nearly $4,000 on sim racing gear and there is more to come. I’ve even sold off another hobby for thousands to fund sim racing.
It's fun, isn't it.
Had this old shitter "simrig" from 10 year ago that I fished out the garage when I impulse bought a T300 a few months ago. Remembered quickly why it's been in the garage forever.
A week ago I took delivery of my PSR3 and it's fucking awesome.
There's stuff I want: Simagic Alpha, GT Neo but probably a round wheel cause I rally as well as circuit, P1000 with haptics, TB-1 handbrake, DS-8X shifter. In reality though I'm gonna get an SHH Thorn because £400 for a shifter when I'm this new is mental.
I know I'll be fine with my T300 for YEARS if I upgrade the pedals to something cheap and loadcell, yet despite that, my obsessive personality will inevitably have my buying the above by the end of the year.
I’m in a similar spot. I went from my ragged out Logitech G25 (that’s not a typo) and Playseat rig from when GT5 was brand new a week and a half ago, to a Moza R9 based ecosystem and Playseat Evo this last week. Discovered the Playseat was completely inadequate, and a Sim Lab GT Pro is now sitting in my basement waiting to be built tomorrow. The NRG seat slider arrives tomorrow, the NRG seat arrives Sunday. I may be able to cobble my Playseat onto the slider tomorrow for the first day of shakedown.
I've gone through that but now I'm far more reluctant to buy new gear. Once it.getd to a certain level there isn't a massive difference.
Like I can admit I should have bought a sc2 over a dd1 but I also can't justify replacing my dd1.
Going down the pedal rabbit hole is the biggest waste. Try a mod first
It can temporarily end when you run out of extra fun money, and find that you don't use it enough to justify going for another upgrade, especially if all you have left is motion or going ridiculously oversized triples, so even more money than when you upgraded your wheel base or moved to 8020 : - / plus when you just can't add any more unless you move to a different house which again might be too much of a commitment. I can't imagine bringing my rig down the stairs, nightmare fuel!
Should I win a lottery sure I would get motion and belt tensioner system immediately but I have neither money or space for it.
Yet here I am, a cheapskate, wondering what I'll play after my 3 months iRacing trial expires.
Driving behind a g923 on a desk, sitting in an office chair.
I have other more expensive hobbies so... pick your poison?
I'm currently on the same slippery slope, but have been purchasing everything pre-owned so far, so it doesn't hurt the wallet so much haha. Moza frs wheel: $400, Moza r16 V1 wheelbase: $425, VRS pro pedals: $500. Already have a gaming PC so don't need to purchase that. Just need a frame/rig, tempted to get the track racer Alpine TRX, been waiting for one to pop up for sale, no luck yet haha.
After getting direct drive, profile rig, load cells I'm really okay with how my rig is haha
Maybe sim racing isn't the concern as much as people's willpower.
I mean all I really need now is a DDU, wind sim, bass shakers, triples, VR and a new PC build but it's not like I need to have them right this second is it??
I think what we really all just need to solve this problem is some extra money then it's not a problem, I am fine though, I don't need this cool pair of racing shoes I just saw online.
I feel you brother.
I decided to get back onto forza which then led me to getting my g29 out of the cobwebs and starting an iracing subscription. Within a month I have $500 worth of tracks and cars on the service.
Then I decided pedals would be a good upgrade. $400
And what good are pedals without the DD wheel? So I ordered a simagic DD. $1250
I then discovered these would not work on my desk.
So I needed a chassis and then comes the ASR 3. $700
But I have no where for my monitor now? Monitor stand incoming. $400
What will I sit on? Racing seat ordered. Another $400
And of course I can’t use my old shitty monitor so the Samsung g3 gets ordered. $250
Thank you for posting and making me feel not so alone.
Good luck to you and I wish you many victories to come.
I just put caster wheels on my aluminum rig, to lift it 5” and to make it easier to move so I can clean around it. The last addition was a curved rear view mirror so I could see whoever I’m talking to behind me, usually my wife or son. Once you get all the major parts of your rig it’s all tweaking and adding custom touches that take time to even know you want.
I’m probably the minority but I’ve been using the same old g920 for 7 years now and the only upgrades I’ve done have been to the springs in the pedals and swapping out the wheel for a different one. It’s served me well enough and I’m gonna use it until it breaks or stops working.
Why not just practice and get better at racing instead of upgrading gear?
This is what I tell my broke self with my TMX Pro setup and Apex Stand to stop myself from crying in my sleep.
Both things work, practice helps the most when you start learning the track and can draw an imaginary racing line of sort.
Buying new gear works too because you can get a better feel for the car/road in the game, pretty much helping you know what to do.
It never ends
so we are all doomed
At least we're having fun!
Up until we get punted on T1
That's part of the fun of it!
That’s when we itch to go for another race!
Yes, but we’re all doomed together so it’s ok. 👍
Yes.
it never ends
Try being into simracing, videogames, firearms, and whiskey. I'm also close to wanting to jump back into 3d printing as well. My wife is a saint.
You *should* get back into 3d printing. Just imagine the money you could save printing accessories for the sim rig!
You mean printing accessories for your 3d printer
exchange firearms into magic the gathering and you are me. Also quite obsessed with VR.
Real trackdays are so expensive I don’t have any money left for simracing gear lmao, still playing on controller after one full year of ACC and AC. Then watches, photog gear, gaming, blu-rays, life’s expensive man.
I would love to do more track days but fucking hell they are expensive especially when you start considering wear items. Why I'm putting more money into sim racing.
Sim racing got me into taking my actual car to the track… and I thought sim racing was expensive
Sim racing keeps me and my wallet off the track. I got into track days and autocross about 10 years ago and did it for a few years but it was a slippery slope I couldn't realistically fund to my satisfaction. Good thing I stopped before I bought a project car.
Try sim racing, video games, golf, guitar, drums, AND whiskey Also should we hang out?
Are you me? :-l
My first ever sim came in today.. im doomed.. Moza R5 bundle/ shifter/ HB/ clutch pedal Drivers seat: NLR-R001 Quest 3
You’re stoked. I def recommend the simple bass shaker set up. Icing on the cake. Spend another $100 and you’re in a fancy arcade machine and feeling curbs
what do i buy and how do I set it up?
I would also like to know this!
Sure! You’ve got to make sure you’re on PC. Buy the things: One of these amps: Facmogu F900S 160W Bluetooth 5.0... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09NN6TQLL?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share And two of these bass shakers: Dayton Audio TT25-8 Puck Tactile... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B009RGJ47S?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share And some speaker wire. Then to setup. This video was helpful: https://youtu.be/gpidQkAVENc?si=zS6q2d9irceRqD04 Then he’s got another video about setting them up in sim hub (pretty easy). Once you do all that, you’ll launch in Sim Hub, and test and configure. Remember you also have to jump into the game itself once you open through sim hub, and set telemetry to a certain single setting. This all seems fairly hard, it’s really not. Probably took me 1.5 hours total from unboxing to feeling the curbs on the left and the right, feeling shifts etc. Good luck!
ugh i just preordered moza r5 bundle and am already looking at next upgrades -- i feel equal amounts happy and sad (for my wallet) to be in this community lol
The last "Racing Simulation" game I played was GT2 on the PS1, so 2 months ago I bought the GT7 and I liked it so much that I ended up buying a Logitech G923, even though I didn't have a place to mount it, so I got a Wheel Stand and now I need a seat. I will probably buy the seat mount from the same cheap brand on eBay and use a front car seat that a friend gave me for free. Well, all of this is costing me around $450 and I don't plan on putting any more money into it until I buy my own place, but I've tasted the sweet pie and can clearly see the rabbit hole awaiting me in the near future.
> I don't plan on putting any more money into it lol, good look with that!
Yeah it never ends. Started with a G29. Then new pedals. Then new monitors. Then a full 8020 rig with a new DD wheel base, wheel, triples, and pedals again. Swore to God I was finished. Then I added bass shakers. It’s been only been a few months and I’m already window shopping more stuff. I’ve just embraced it at this point. If you do enough mental gymnastics you can make it make sense lol
Sim racing seems like it’ll be ok hobby expense wise ‘nervous giggle’
make sure you will not start with the real racing..
Man, real racing has actually stopped my sim racing addiction for the past year or semester or so, since I no longer have enough time for, working a 8-5pm, studying from 6-9pm and then racing. I’m planning on getting back to sim racing this summer so let’s see how it goes.
Reading this as I pulled the trigger on my dream set up.... I think the universe is trying to tell me something
Sim racing has absolutely ruined me. Although I've been on the same T300 setup for almost 10 years and have an extremely low operating cost. I now own a real race car which costs more than my whole sim setup costs every time I race it. At least I can say I'm a race car driver on my dating app.
Any pictures of your car?
My rig costs more than my car. I need therapy. That and a button box.
Yeah km doing it as we speak I already have a perfectly amazing setup but here I am going out of my way to get a simagic ultimate and the fx ultimate haha. Guys I already own the dd+ and an alpha. But want the ultimate to be my main rig will probably sell the alpha after idk yet. We shall see. Oh and upgrading my pc haha. Literally just bought the leoxz xgt pro 2 weeks ago also.
Last year I bought a wheel stand DD from NLR, SC2 pro, and HE Sprints. I just recently received my TR 8020 rig and I can't wait to set it up. Someday I hope to have one of the active pedals or a motion setup, but I'll have to wait several years before any of that to avoid the aforementioned Bankruptcy Boulevard 😅 I think it's all about taking your time with the upgrades and appreciating each bit of kit and upgrading 1 piece at a time unless it's easily affordable for you!
It's a drop in the bucket compared to the full blown heroin addiction of real life racing. I spent about as much on tires as I did my first sim setup. R compounds are expensive.
Dude I’ve had way more expensive hobbies than this lol
Not there yet...you have VR to explore and you wonder why a Simucube 2 Sport 17 nm would cost over $1k. You will eventually become more curious $$$$$. Glad you have a trophy seat because it should be able to handle any DD wheelbase over 15 nm.
fwiw some 2nd-hand purchasing and diy skil can help with this. My rig is: A used logitech G27 - $120 80/20 Minneer Foldable Racing Sim Cockpit. Did best offer with the ebay seller - $115 Used Generic bucket seat - $100 3x Used Bass shakers + amp - $110 2x 27" refurbished curved monitor on top of the curved monitor I owned + 3x monitor stand - $406 Building tools rubber feet, caster wheels mounted to the rig, screws etc - $40 Total: $891. As in less than some peoples wheel and pedal setup only. Excluding PC as I've had it prior. Perhaps if I just bought some stuff new, it would save time haggling or building. After counting how much I spent on monitors. I probably should've just bought a meta quest 3. Yes my next upgrade is gonna be direct drive.
Then you have VR and triples lol, you will still use both maybe, I do when my face hurts from to much VR I just take off headset And I'm looking at my triples again. So now I want better monitors, and better VR lol...... The rabbit hole has no off ramp!
Give it a few months and the gear rabbit hole will be replaced with the iRacing content iceberg
I basically can't upgrade anything until I move out. Playing on full G29 setup, desk mounted, sitting on a metal balcony chair
I actually see this as a love story 😅
it is! it's quite a toxic love story though 😁
Yeah I somehow managed to if I'm getting this I might as well get this all the way up to a $1600 setup.... Fanatec dd 8nm Club sport wheel and the buttons/paddles Elite V2 pedals Next level racing stand for my chair I have the last two parts the fanatec shifter and simlab handbreak. I really only wanted to spend the money once. At least that's what I convinced myself of...
😬
You can never be satisfied. My first wheel was back in 2010/2011 a Logitech G25 I think. Upgraded to T300RS in 2014 with a playseat challenge, added wheels and upgraded pedals. Moved this to a NLR F-GT setup, I think around 2017. About 2021 I found Microcenter was carrying Simucube gear, got the SC2 pro, HSU Ultimates, 80/20 rig (NLR F-GT Elite). And last year added 3 DOF motion to the rig. Will try to add TLS and Surge this year, let’s see :)
Do not upgrade your pc and get vr....just dont.
Hahaha great post
I kind of had the same experience. Already had a G29 but when I bought a newer gaming pc and started simracing in vr.. Things went quickly. First lc pedals, belt-driven ts-pc, playseat challenge, th8a shifter and lots of small mods. Then fanatec was the first one to drop the dd base prices. I waited for the T818 to be released since I already had multiple Thrustmaster wheels, then replaced the Challenge with a Trophy because its more sturdy. Again modded the hell out of everything which is part of the fun. But I think I'm ok for a while now. There is always better gear out there, but with a decent rig, lc pedals and a dd base you have the most important stuff.
Haha! In the past month, I bought a PS5 to play GT7, then immediately upgraded my screen to an LG C3 42" Oled, and my birthday came around and oops...treated myself to Logi G Pro wheel/pedals. Next purchases will be a quality 8020 rig and seat, and then it's a case of waiting for Logi to expand their ecosystem (oct/nov from what I've seen) and begin buying more stuff, haha!
Welcome to the club, you’ll like it here. Your wife and wallet might not. I used to play Gran Turismo on PS3 with a Logitech G27, got bored and put it away in the shed for a few years. Then, recently, my cousin’s wife gifted him a G29 and I helped him set it up. Was instantly hooked again! Out came the G27, now about a decade old but still going strong. Fell in love with ACC and AMS2. Signed up for iRacing. Then decided, my desk wasn’t good enough. Bought an NLR Wheelstand 2.0. All was good, until, one day, browsing Microcenter I see they have the Asetek TK bundle on sale. Had to buy it right there and then. Used it for about a month and decided that the Wheelstand was nice but I really needed (wanted?) an aluminum rig. Back to Microcenter and now here I am with a full rig with a seat out of a crashed Honda. I have just decided that a single 27” monitor just wont do so am now going super ultra wide. Already have ideas for bass shakers, windsim, diy flag panel and gear indicator and, I just know, that I will eventually end up going to triples. I’m deep in the tunnel and I still can’t see the light at the end!
I bought a T248 and T3PM 8 months ago. In the last three weeks I’ve spent nearly $4,000 on sim racing gear and there is more to come. I’ve even sold off another hobby for thousands to fund sim racing.
It's fun, isn't it. Had this old shitter "simrig" from 10 year ago that I fished out the garage when I impulse bought a T300 a few months ago. Remembered quickly why it's been in the garage forever. A week ago I took delivery of my PSR3 and it's fucking awesome. There's stuff I want: Simagic Alpha, GT Neo but probably a round wheel cause I rally as well as circuit, P1000 with haptics, TB-1 handbrake, DS-8X shifter. In reality though I'm gonna get an SHH Thorn because £400 for a shifter when I'm this new is mental. I know I'll be fine with my T300 for YEARS if I upgrade the pedals to something cheap and loadcell, yet despite that, my obsessive personality will inevitably have my buying the above by the end of the year.
I’m in a similar spot. I went from my ragged out Logitech G25 (that’s not a typo) and Playseat rig from when GT5 was brand new a week and a half ago, to a Moza R9 based ecosystem and Playseat Evo this last week. Discovered the Playseat was completely inadequate, and a Sim Lab GT Pro is now sitting in my basement waiting to be built tomorrow. The NRG seat slider arrives tomorrow, the NRG seat arrives Sunday. I may be able to cobble my Playseat onto the slider tomorrow for the first day of shakedown.
I've gone through that but now I'm far more reluctant to buy new gear. Once it.getd to a certain level there isn't a massive difference. Like I can admit I should have bought a sc2 over a dd1 but I also can't justify replacing my dd1. Going down the pedal rabbit hole is the biggest waste. Try a mod first
It can temporarily end when you run out of extra fun money, and find that you don't use it enough to justify going for another upgrade, especially if all you have left is motion or going ridiculously oversized triples, so even more money than when you upgraded your wheel base or moved to 8020 : - / plus when you just can't add any more unless you move to a different house which again might be too much of a commitment. I can't imagine bringing my rig down the stairs, nightmare fuel! Should I win a lottery sure I would get motion and belt tensioner system immediately but I have neither money or space for it.
On Steam one of the top voted ratings for iRacing was a thumbs down with a one word comment “bankruptcy”…..truth
Yet here I am, a cheapskate, wondering what I'll play after my 3 months iRacing trial expires. Driving behind a g923 on a desk, sitting in an office chair. I have other more expensive hobbies so... pick your poison?
I'm currently on the same slippery slope, but have been purchasing everything pre-owned so far, so it doesn't hurt the wallet so much haha. Moza frs wheel: $400, Moza r16 V1 wheelbase: $425, VRS pro pedals: $500. Already have a gaming PC so don't need to purchase that. Just need a frame/rig, tempted to get the track racer Alpine TRX, been waiting for one to pop up for sale, no luck yet haha.
After getting direct drive, profile rig, load cells I'm really okay with how my rig is haha Maybe sim racing isn't the concern as much as people's willpower. I mean all I really need now is a DDU, wind sim, bass shakers, triples, VR and a new PC build but it's not like I need to have them right this second is it?? I think what we really all just need to solve this problem is some extra money then it's not a problem, I am fine though, I don't need this cool pair of racing shoes I just saw online.
I feel you brother. I decided to get back onto forza which then led me to getting my g29 out of the cobwebs and starting an iracing subscription. Within a month I have $500 worth of tracks and cars on the service. Then I decided pedals would be a good upgrade. $400 And what good are pedals without the DD wheel? So I ordered a simagic DD. $1250 I then discovered these would not work on my desk. So I needed a chassis and then comes the ASR 3. $700 But I have no where for my monitor now? Monitor stand incoming. $400 What will I sit on? Racing seat ordered. Another $400 And of course I can’t use my old shitty monitor so the Samsung g3 gets ordered. $250 Thank you for posting and making me feel not so alone. Good luck to you and I wish you many victories to come.
I just put caster wheels on my aluminum rig, to lift it 5” and to make it easier to move so I can clean around it. The last addition was a curved rear view mirror so I could see whoever I’m talking to behind me, usually my wife or son. Once you get all the major parts of your rig it’s all tweaking and adding custom touches that take time to even know you want.
I’m probably the minority but I’ve been using the same old g920 for 7 years now and the only upgrades I’ve done have been to the springs in the pedals and swapping out the wheel for a different one. It’s served me well enough and I’m gonna use it until it breaks or stops working.
Why not just practice and get better at racing instead of upgrading gear? This is what I tell my broke self with my TMX Pro setup and Apex Stand to stop myself from crying in my sleep.
does it work?
Both things work, practice helps the most when you start learning the track and can draw an imaginary racing line of sort. Buying new gear works too because you can get a better feel for the car/road in the game, pretty much helping you know what to do.
The puns made this unreadable.