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So you're a racer, maybe you've even got a nice racingwheel for playing...
But where do you play, and how to attach the wheel? Read on to see how to build your own cheapass racingseat!

If you really like racing games, chances are you've got a racingwheel, however its most of the time not easy to use it, attaching it to you desk with a deskchair is just plain uncomfortable and if you've got the 360-racingwheel from M$, you'll know that putting it on your legs is far from ideal :-)
1. the stuff you need:

a) carseat, preferably bucketseat ( more 'realistic' )
b) 1 standard size multiplex wooden plate ( 240 cm x 120 cm or 94,5" x 47")
c) 2 big & 2 big but smaller then previous L-shaped Irons with a groove in them ( see picture below this list)
d) a number of 'flat' L-shaped irons ( basically as many as you like, but 4 at the least )
Optional: Handlebars & seatbelt



2. where to find it:
a) Carseat, you can find in any junkyard, or if you're lucky/patient you'll find a good deal on eBay.
b) your local woodshop
c & d) your local hardwareshop
Optional: hardwarestore and the junkyard/eBay

3. Woodwork
If you've got the materials, you can do it yourself, but if you're lazy like me or don't have the materials, most woodshops will pre-cut your plywood plate for you if you give them a plan of what you'd like.

So here's a plan I quickly drew up in Paint for you guys :-)
note that the sizes are in cm's ( since I'm a eurofag :-))



You basically just need 4 pieces of wood.

1 baseboard: 70 x 140 cm
2 sides: 60 x 40 cm
1 tabletop: 30 x 70 cm

4. Assembly.

I first attached the seat to the baseboard by mounting it on the L-irons and then screwing the L-irons into place.



I think the best idea is to place the seat as far backwards as you can.



The next step is to create the table to which we'll attatch our wheel. this is done in just 2 steps:





Then I stopped taking pictures because time was running our for the first EuroNARP to begin and loads of other stuff still needed to be done, but the rest of the pictures clearly show what was done afterwards.



Tadaaaaaaaa it's done already!


5. Optional stuff.

You can mount the handles as you saw on the picture above, I've got 2 in the front and 2 in the back to make it easy to move around.

here's a way of mounting your seatbelts:



6. Race Like Hell

on the EuroNARP we tested it out with the 360-wheel ( the seat on the right is the first one I ever built but wasn't strong enough to hold the power of my G25 ) the one on the left is the one you just built :-)



Well I hope you guys liked it, and if you build one yourself, or have built one yourself already in a differnt way, sent me a PM or show us some pictures!