Redesigned the E30 Simulator

[el bob]

Amazing project James. It's easy to see that countless hours were invested. Must feel good to have it so far complete and to have others try it out and have a blast.

It would be neat to get a few of the veteran club racers to try it out and get their impressions. Maybe some YouTube video with driver commentary like the TopGear celebrity hot laps. :)

[James Crivellone]

I swear my work is never done on this thing.

Due to poor performance with dual display, I upgraded the PC components of the system

Before

Pentium 4 3.46Ghz Extreme Edition
1GB Ram
Radeon 2600XT

After

Intel Core2Duo E8500 3.16Ghz
2GB Ram
nVidia Geforce 9600GS (temp until we upgrade to a much more powerful card)

Luke also helped me today and we finished off the endcap which protects and hides all the electronics.

John running a lap on a cold engine :-p




New electronics endcap



Also added is a Zotac Nitro for video card stats, and another display showing game stats



Full view of the darn thing.

[Moto-Mucci]

dear god, please mass produce this.

[otgixxer]

I know who's house ill be visiting this weekend.

[Rockinlittle325i]

Oh my GOD! thats beautiful!!

[clavinZERO]

where do you put in the quarters James?

[krans]

Wow that's awesome i would pay to play.

[Tree18is]

what game is on it???????

[Tree18is]

if that doesnt get you 100k a year job I dont know what the fuck will.

[norcalE30]

wow... thats one of the coolest things ive ever seen... now i just have to become a computer genius so i can build my own...

[colombacho]

how much did this cost?!
love it.

[EuroCar318]

Holy Christ that is cool

[Kristeun]

That's awesome! Do you set up FFB as well? Probably been asked a lot.

[Justin B]

Practice practice but.. As I recall, it was only fast times of the night. Nice try :P Does that leaderboard still stand?

[Jparkr]

I'll be there again I hope to defend my low time victory last year! I only wish that LCD was still in the area next to it, it was nice to see the numbers and tire temps :)

Looks great though!

oh? ill make sure to have a good number set by the time you get here then :-D