What I did with an RX-8 seat, some wood and some PVC pipes.
 

Still working in progress, will upload more pics if you guys wanna see more and when I'm done.

Here are a little teaser.
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5125/...c953943e_b.jpg

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5126/...e9befdca_b.jpg

Special thanks to Vyndictive for selling me his seat.


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1/25/11
Seat Completed.
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5216/...7472a65a_b.jpg
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5218/...9a0101ca_b.jpg
Ta-DAaaa!!! (=_= yea i guess the "art" part could be better, o well, it still looks good IMO =D)

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5211/...1ca9304f_b.jpg
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5219/...30da1a94_b.jpg
For those who were wondering where I mounted the shifter.

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5220/...92399d22_b.jpg
Steering Wheel Mount.

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5214/...898fb532_b.jpg
Pedals Mounts

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5212/...19f8be4c_b.jpg
Seeing how weird the seat rail mounts, I have gone the lazy route and made it a tripod. Still very sturdy as what it is.

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5217/...0c14061e_b.jpg
Yea, the base is pretty darn ugly, but i don't really care, no one'd really look at the base, well not me at least.

The making of...

Badass! I need to do this for when I play forza...

haha sick !!!! Is this for Gran Turismo 5 ??

I did the same thing with my Type R's driver seat.

have any more pics with the whole setup? i have a spare seat as well and was planning on doing the same thing, just never got around to it.

also where did you place the shifter? is it next to the seat or next to the wheel?

you need to look at the pics more closely...he has paddles :)

The Logitech G25 has both paddle shifting, and the manual gated shifting, and alsooo a sequential style gearbox option.

Some steering wheel setups come with both.

nice. Id like a set up like this.

oh wow...didn't know that. The xbox guys, like myself, don't get this awsome wheel :(

G27 is soo much better with its redesigned helical gear. quieter.

cant wait to see the completed product

omfg yes!

this looks pretty bad ass. Please i dont need anymore ideas.

Haha...boy do I have a photo for you.

I love Forza! Looks good

Awesome, is that carbon fiber vinyl?

thanks guys haha, I'll post more pics when i'll done, which hopefully it'll be done by tomorrow night :P

Yess! haha and so much more on PC, Live for Speed, iRacing, F1 2010, GTR2, Ferrari Virtual Academy and all :P

pics!! i'd love to see what other people do with this idea. I first saw these on the gt planet forum.

um... i have an extra tube on the side, i'll show you tomorrow when it's done.

haha yes i do, but the g25 like other people said comes with a shifter, which i seldomly use cuz... it feels too fake anyway, paddle shifters are so much faster and more fun haha, then again, nothing compares to the feeling of driving a manual car in real life.

build one! it took me 6 hours tops, cutting the pipes was the worst part. It only cost me $80 + the seat vs. $450 for a playseat.

you can haz thiz http://www.fanatec.de/html/index.php?id=2302&

yep it is haha "3D weave" from eBay.

haha, great idea. If i get a replacement seat at any point, its defintely an idea for me to use my old seats for Forza!

I need to take some better pictures of mine, now that I have this nice new camera :) How do you like the PC racing sims by the way? I've never really tried any. I have three matching monitors from work that all quit powering up about the same time, been thinking about taking them in somewhere to see if it's a cheap fix and build a 3-monitor setup :)

I never took any. It was a square bar stock that I cut and welded together. I painted it bronze. I ended up selling it to a friend (who moved) because I didn't have room for it anymore. :(

GT5 and Forza can be buried in the ground compared to games on PC, I particularly love Live for speed, despite their not so great graphics, it's still by far number 1 on my list. Then again, Ferrari Virtual Academy's the most fun though, but it lacks variety, it only has 3 tracks and well 1 car, but it's sooooo fun challenging yourself with faster lap times one after another.
GTR 2 and the others are showing its age, but they have lots of addons and packs that people create, so there are various racing leagues in them. And finally F1 2010 is a relatively new game, awesome graphics and sounds but the AI and bugs are getting on my nerves, not THAT realistic either, but it's still fun :D

Looks awesome man :D:

Cool, I may get into it one of these days but I'd probably have to build a new PC for it... I have an iMac now which probably wouldn't work too well for that... well, maybe, might work to build some sort of base to clamp the iMac base down too. I still don't have windows installed on it though, never have much need for Windows anymore.