Haha, not in this video I’m not. I spent about a year piecing together a rig. It’s a full rig now with seat and stuff. Custom made crap. There’s tons of new videos coming. I just gotta finish editing it all

Couldn’t have said it better, I’ve had it for about a year now but most of that time was building a full sim rig with seat and everything so I just stared regularly using it now and wanted to get the videos posted up here. I have about 7-8 videos of the entire rig build I gotta get posted still but the structure thing was huge! After I got the rig done I was easily twice as good with no prior driving. Assetto is great but the issue I find is the initial learning curve is so steep at first it’s going to discourage first time users from ever using a sim rig again if the entire process is just frustration for weeks, even months before finally locking down the basics. I found that Forza Horizon 5 at 540 degrees, manual paddle shift with clutch made the most progress out of the gate and it was actually fun so I wanted to keep going. Then it’s just small steps from 540 to 720 so the only factor that’s changing is steering and you already have decent pedal control down so you’re not learning 42,000 things at once. Waaayy easier to make faster progress starting small and moving up instead of diving into Assetto and expecting to be a pro lol

Agreed haha. I have a whole series of video coming. I bought this piece of shit frame off Amazon and set it all up, and then took it apart again and welded in a bunch of support braces, modded the wheel hub with metal bearings and metal pulleys to reduce feedback slop which makes the feedback way more aggressive, upgraded the cooling, built a vertical pedal box and junk. I still have to finish editing a bunch of the videos to get them uploaded here. This was just the first one. I’ve had it for a year now and still haven’t really used it. Just been building and modded the rig lol. But I 1000% agree, after getting a proper rig and adding support structure to it, some test drives and I was easily twice as good cause the rig wasn’t flying all over the place lol

This video is kind of old, I’ve been building a full custom rig for about a year now and just started to finally use it regularly now so I got some footage edited and uploaded. I have like 7-8 videos I gotta get uploaded here of the entire rig, welded on some structural mods, vertical pedals, cooling mods to the T300, etc. tons of stuff. It’s a full cockpit with seat and a 50” TV that’s about 1.5’ away from the wheel base. If you sit at the right angle you can actually get the T300 to almost line up 1:1 with the view in game so it’s nearly perfect now.

I kind of agree, Assetto with mods is great but to just get in and drive. But nothing seems to touch Forza Horizon for learning and ease of use. You just open the game and everything else is done with wheel controls. Assetto relays on the mouse and keyboard too much for mods and settings to be easily usable in a sim setup for someone who has never used it before. It’s like taking someone who likes cameras and telling them to shoot a Hollywood movie, it’s going to be REALLY bad before it ever gets better and the learning curve is so steep with Assetto that it’s going to push a lot of new drivers away from ever getting into Sim racing. Assetto might be better down the road. But just learning this thing, it’s way too much to be diving into at first. Forza Horizon is also the only sim-arcade physics open world game that exists with deep car customization so it might not be the best for realism but it has more average use than any other game that exists. Offers the widest areas of driving, circuit, rally, drifting, drag racing, offroad, etc. it’s not the best, but it does have pretty much everything you could think of for getting started.

Forza Horizon 5 is the only open world sim-arcade game that offers a variety of driving styles though. Circuit, drift, drag, rally, etc. it’s kind of the perfect all in one starter game before moving into simulation stuff like Assetto or Gran Turismo.

@everythingsfineproductions you are better off just going to assetto corsa. There are 1000's of mods to make the game how you want and the wheel actually works as intended

@@JustNateJ Assetto is less of a game and more of a simulator. It's designed around people who already know what they're doing so it's actually a terrible recommendation to new sim racers. The physics in Forza will never be as good as Assetto but when you're just starting, physics means nothing, it's all about learning wheel and pedal control, understanding the hardware and getting a feel for it rather than trying to go into the hardest simulation game with no skill and expecting to stay motivated. Once you have the basics down you can start look into different games with different physics engines. I gave an example somewhere in another comment. But it's basically like taking someone who's interested in cameras, and then dropping them off on a Hollywood set and telling them to make a movie. If you don't even have the bare minimum control and understanding, it's going to be a world of hurt trying to learn anything. But if you start small, learn in stages, it's WAY easier to make faster progression. The reason I stick with Forza is because it's the only all in one game that exists. It's open world, easy visual car mods, easy basic tuning set ups, and it's one click to start the game and the wheel controls take over for everything else. With Assetto you gotta download different cars, maps, you need a pretty big understanding of Blender if you want to customize cars at all and then you're basically modifying or creating your own 3D models at that point, even the biggest open world maps I found for Assetto aren't even a fraction of the size compared to Forza maps. Forza isn't the best, but it has everything without needing to modify files or be a 3D modeling engineer lol. It's not that I'm not going to use Assetto, I'm just not there yet, and it's a really bad choice for beginners. And I'm not the only one who says this, tons of other big sim drifters on KZbin also say to start small with like CarX just so you can get used to throwing the wheel and counter steering before moving to Forza and CarX is dog shit lol.

I get this a lot, but the thing that a lot of people seem to forget is starting from nothing is a huge process, so taking more work away from the game to make it easier to drive makes learning pedal and wheel control grow much faster. Assetto also isn’t open world so you can’t just find little drift spots to have fun. Gotta load mods and custom maps which makes it a whole different animal of a game that’s way beyond a first time user which will end up discouraging tons of new racers to never use a sim rig again if all it ever does is cause frustration at first. I’ve had this for about a year now and just started using it now so I’m posting all of the videos from the entire build and I actually found that manual with clutch and 540 degree made a world of different for learning clutch kicks and actually not flying all over the place like a psychopath lol. I made more progress using easier settings in a week than I did at full sim settings in almost 2 months. WAY easier to start off easy and make it harder as you go than start with the hardest and just lose your mind for months until you either get it or give up on it.

@@everythingsfineproductions well you were complaining on how forza doesn't feel realistic/your not getting a realistic feeling from it and asking for suggestions you shouldve seen these kind of comments comming from a mile away

In theory, yeah, but I was only touching the wheel for the entire video and it kept switching back to Keyboard Inputs. This is also broken in Forza Motorsport 2023 cause it only shows keyboard inputs even while using the wheel. The quick chat things while racing also don’t work with the wheel. The entire thing to say which D Pad input is which quick chat thing isn’t even there but they still work if you press the buttons lol. Forza as a whole is just super messed up and is still full of bugs lol.

Could be your mouse sensors Abit dirty

There’s actually two different versions of the T300, one of them is for PS3 and PS4, which it should be set to PS3 to work on PC. And the other T300 is for PS4 and PS5, which should be set to PS4 to work on PC. I can’t remember what the lights are supposed to be for the PS3/PS4 T300, but I know the newer PS4/PS5 version is supposed to be green for PC

I think it would take more than 3minutes?

@@FLAMEKKi Also true 👍.

That and they have single use clamps on them so they would all have to be replaced, as well as old hoses having a higher chance of cracking so trying to leave as much in place as possible ends up being the faster and cheaper choice.

It's in the description, needed a steering wheel clock spring and an alignment then the calibration worked fine.

It was just some off the shelf stuff at a car parts store. I was just comparing different tones as I disassembled and assembled the new one to see how each part made it sound different.

@@everythingsfineproductions o well, i have the same car in China and im looking for those options to improve the exhaust sound, plz let me know if you can sell those things to me ...

It’s not in any condition to sell right now. I’ve been working on it in the background, but when it’s done being restored, I’m probably going to list it for around $30-35k

I was putting coilovers in so they were a lot shorter than the factory ones I took out. To make it easier for factory strut replacement, you should loosen up the lower control arm bolts and then it will just flop down so there's not a lot of pressure on it, but you'll need to get an alignment done after which is why I tried to avoid it in this video lol.

Off the shelf 20x9.5 with no custom offset or anything for front and rear with no spacers. Just slap em on.

It's super weird, german engineering at it's finest. Basically, it has something to do with the computer thinking the car was in an accident because the wheels and steering wheel are not seeing the same position so it disables ESP/BAS and ABS "for towing" the vehicle to a shop. The clock spring in mine was broken, which was why the wheel position couldn't be calibrated. If your clock spring is fine, you just need to calibrate the steering wheel and the lights will go away. BUT, if it WON'T calibrate like mine wasn't, it's because the clock spring is broken and it can't read it's calibration data.

Electrical issues, randomly the entire right side of the car would have no lights and the left side wouldn't turn off. It's actually a recall on the 2009-2012 models but I live so far away from an Audi dealer it was cheaper to just buy a new one and replace it myself than the fuel cost to drive the 700km to the nearest Audi dealer to have it done for free, and then another 700km back lol

Yeah, it's just the swiss cheese mod. Drill some holes on the bottom of the intake before the filter so the filters can still do their job and it lets in more warm air off the exhaust, so highway fuel economy was slightly better. Does absolutely nothing for performance though, just sounds neat.

It's called the swiss cheese mod, you just take your intake off, drill a bunch of holes in the bottom of the intake before the filters so when you put the filters back in, they still do their job, and it allows more warm air in to help with highway fuel economy. Custom intakes do absolutely nothing for performance, they just sound neat.

You need a new cluster

Same car, 2011, same problem. Check for damaged wires near or under the battery and fuse box. Also is common for dead dashboards/clusters, radio, AC or heat etc. My cluster turned off 1,5 year ago but revived alone

@@guilhermeabreuu240 I bet this could be my issue my cluster has burnt out 3 times now

@@TrippySidd I have my car in my garage, dead. I’m pretty sure it’s wiring since the only time it almost started was when I was hitting the wiring next to the battery with a stick ( I can’t see broken or melted wires ). The first time my cluster died I was told it was a lost (no communication) but it did came back. If I find the problem: I’ll be back Edit: It’s been 4 days since last comment. I have looked everywhere for broken or melted wires, so far I found almost invisible water damage behind the glove box (almost invisible, but probably caused some rusting inside including in the glove box light connection, still not enough to cause my problem) Going to keep looking for wiring problems

@@guilhermeabreuu240 sounds super similar to what I’m dealing with now

I used to be on VW Vortex for years when I first got this thing, but people are crazy on there. Like I wanted to do a MK3 centre console and I was literally getting threats for "ruining this car" and told that they would make sure I don't come back to any car shows if they found me. That forum is fucked which is why this car sat at my Dad's place for so long. They kinda killed the ambition I had for it. It's finally in my garage now and I've been working on some new videos but nothing ready to upload any time soon. But, I do still have it, and I do plan on restoring it to some extent so eventually I will have way more videos about this thing

If it wasn't Canada with typical seized bolts, and I was in a bigger city where I can just go get parts from a scrap yard. I would have replaced it without question, but this was honestly easier than breaking every bolt and having to replace them all lol

Linclon something or other $250 CAD 110v from a local hardware store. I literally just got the cheapest one I could find cause I had no idea what I was doing and needed something budget friendly to start learning with.

In the description

Once it's finished, yes. Needs a lot of work right now, have a few videos about it on the back burner right now but I'm hoping to have a bunch of content for it coming up and when it's done I'm going to sell it.