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Amazing how two little pieces of *** can change the feel so much and make
such a change to lap imes!

Muzza

Just get a squash ball and try it. Or anything else spongy/***y It's not
like it's gonna cost you a fortune (unless you break your pedals, of
course)!

Muzza

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I wrapped some foam *** around the pedal 'shaft' then wrapped the whole
lot in duct tape.  Limits the travel a little, but feels much better than
the original.

Cheers
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can you beat a 1.17 around monza in f1rc which my pal did on a
keyboard?  my best keyboard time is about 1.18.5 (i have the ghost)
and my best wheel time is 1.19.3 (or .2, i forget).

unfortunately, my times involve some *heavy* kerb-riding for the first
chicane, so i am not too proud of it.  the game does not consider it
an 'invalid lap', but i guess I do.

back to your statement, which joystick do you use / recommend.  i used
to love my old CH Flightstick for Indycar.  What is a good one to get
today?  Also do you use the joystick for all inputs or do you use a
pedal or something else?

Regards all,
istoff

 hi Muzza
 Glad you like the squash ball trick, I've been using it on my MSFF pedals
for about a year now and can't drive GPL without one now.

Any way I recently found another tweak for the MSFF pedals which makes
nearly as much difference, I noticed when calibrating that GPL didn't seem
to be using the full travel of the pedals, i.e. when you push down either
pedal the calibration goes from 64 down to 0 but you still have about 1cm of
travel before the pedals right down.

I decided to investigate further and got the same results in N3, N4 and
DXTweak so I pulled my pedals apart to check out the pots, and it turns out
that the pots only use about the centre third of there rotation. I haven't
been able to find any replacement pots yet, partly because I haven't tried
that hard :) any partly because the pots Microsoft use are completely blank.

So I decided to try building up the little *** block behind the pedals so
that they only travel as far as there usable range, it turned out to be a
little under 1cm but both pedals were slightly different. Well what a
difference it made, I can modulate the throttle properly now, before if I
wanted to lift of just a little bit I needed to lift of by a cm before I
could lift by that little bit (I think that's what I mean).

I also now use a whole squash ball under my brake pedal now without it
affecting the pedal range anymore than the other mod did.

Mark

GPLRank +67.83 and dropping fast :)
Monster rank 1068.69 must drive the Honda more :(

My best wheel time at Monza is a 1:19 from April 1 in expert mode. Haven't
run it much since then because I usually follow the season schedule.

David G Fisher

Murray,
check out my webpage, I use a doorstopper plus a stupid simple resistor cirquit.
Works wonders.

JensSchumi

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GPLRank: -13
Monsters of GPL: sub 200