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by **Kipi** » Sat, 04 Mar 2000 04:00:00

I was surfing around for wheel pedal setups and came across Ball Racing's
website. I was wondering if anyone has any experience with thier setup. It
looks great and the price is reasonable(under 300$) but wanted to check first.
Thanks

by **PJ Nienhu** » Sat, 04 Mar 2000 04:00:00

I've got a Digital Edge F1 Sim (made by Ball Racing) for a few years
now, and it's an excellent system. The steeringwheel and pedals are
very robust. If you don't want Force Feedback it's one of the best
wheel-pedal-setups around. I had to replace the steeringpot a few
months ago, but that was to be expected after countless hours of
SimRacing (GP2, CMR, GPL).

PJ

by **pjgt..** » Sat, 04 Mar 2000 04:00:00

> I was surfing around for wheel pedal setups and came across Ball
> Racing's
> website. I was wondering if anyone has any experience with thier
> setup. It
> looks great and the price is reasonable(under 300$) but wanted to
> check first.
> Thanks

Yep, I've good two of their wheels here. An F1 Sim full size, and an F1
Sim compact. The compact has ***(too small, too close together,
not enough pedal travel, too light) plastic pedals, but is otherwise
exactly the same as the full size model.

The only probs I've had with mine is the pedal springs (in the full size
F1 Sim) have broken on several occasions (I've had the full size model
for about two years now, and it has had *very* heavy use!) and apart
from the springs going occasionally, still works flawlessly.

I had already purchased spares though from Ballracing (they do a spares
pack, or you can buy separate springs, pots, etc), and its easy to
change the springs, takes about 5 minutes and all you need is a pair of
pliers and a spanner to undue the nut.

They feel great, and are very solidly built, early F1 Sims suffered from
the steering wheel not centering properly, but I understand they have a
new improved centering mechanism now?

8-)

*Peter* - http://www.racesimcentral.net/~peterpc/home.html

by **PJ Nienhu** » Sun, 05 Mar 2000 04:00:00

Yes, the new F1 Sim has a different centering mechanism, using a
spring instead of a *** torsion-tube (which I already had to
replace once). It's supposed to be much better (this spring-system) ,
too bad it's very expensive to upgrade

PJ

by **Kirk Lan** » Sun, 05 Mar 2000 04:00:00

Where is this company's website?

--
Kirk Lane

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BRT #187

"Yeah you won't find me
I'm going MIA
Tonight I'm leaving
Going MIA
Getting lost in you again
Is better than being known"
-Foo Fighters, "MIA"

by **Remco Moe** » Mon, 06 Mar 2000 04:00:00

>Where is this company's website?

http://www.interactiveracing.com/

Remco

by **pjgt..** » Mon, 06 Mar 2000 04:00:00

> Yes, the new F1 Sim has a different centering mechanism, using a
> spring instead of a *** torsion-tube (which I already had to
> replace once). It's supposed to be much better (this spring-system) ,
> too bad it's very expensive to upgrade

I understand its 60.00 to upgrade, thats not *too* much to improve an
already excellent wheel set-up!

8-)

*Peter* - http://www.racesimcentral.net/~peterpc/home.html

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