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THIS IS GREAT! I don't have to devote so much concentration on brake
pedal position to keep from locking wheels in GPL. Brake load at the
tire is now a lot more a fuction of pedal force. I can focus more on
turning in to the turn.

Too bad GPL doesn't support FF steering.

Marty

I cut a 1/2" piece off an old guitar capo's *** bar, and put a piece of
(thin) double sided tape on one side (to hold it in place. Then, I put it
underneath the brake paddle, right against the spring.. The capo *** was
the perfect density and size (about 1/2" thick). Plus, it has a 1'8" hole in
the center that allows the top half of the *** to compress easier during
the first 3/4 of the paddle travel, where the brake paddle suddenly gets
quite 'hard'.  This gives it an ideal and very realistic 'brake pedal' like
feel!

Best Regd's from
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The secret?.. with a knife, cut a slit in one side of the tennis ball, about
1.5 inches long. Just a slit will do fine. Keep cutting until the ball has
some "give" to it.

Now my brake pedal feels like the real thing (damn close, anyhow). I've got
a bit (1/4 inch) of free travel(as the pedal shaft presses into the now
"softened" tennis ball, then as I continue to press, I get progressive
resistance for about 1/2 inch. When I really squeeze the heck out of the
pedal, I get maybe 1/6 of an inch extra travel, but you can sure feel it!
(Just make sure you really squeeze hard during calibration.)

With my T2 pedal set (which I have proped against two small planks of wood
under my desk (one as a spacer between the wall and the pedals so they don't
slide away from me(!), and the other about 1 1/2 inches thick to give the
pedal base some angle, so the pedal travel is more "natural"), I put the
tennis ball behind the brake pedal, so it sits on that flat "lip" at the
back of the base. Take some duct tape, and wrap it from one side of the base
(ie: from left to right), around the tennis, and just around onto the next
side (enough so that it sticks). Then I added a small strip from the base,
up over the tennis ball
onto the top, just to the left of the brake pedal's shaft (again, just
enough so that it sticks well). Then added another strip left-to-right for
re-enforcement.

My lap times dropped about 2 seconds/lap by doing this.. The brakes are just
so much better. I don't know what the brakes feel like in one of those
thousand-dollar Hyperstimulators, but I'll tell you, this little tip makes
my pedals feel like what I imagine they may be like. If I didn't know what
was hiding underneath my desk (the T2), I'd have said it was a fairly
high-quality pedal set! (call me crazy!)

Try it!

doktorB
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Because the brake is so much stiffer now I'm thinking of swapping one of
the springs with the throttle to stiffen it.

Marty