Any good brake pedal soloutions for GPL?

Was wondering if anyone has come up with a really good braking system for GPL. I have a microsoft wheel and ive tried the squash ball but im not happy with it. Ive come up with a diff system. Instead of putting somethnig UNDER the pedal which restricts movement,ive hooked up a large spring on the top of the pedal going to a railing on my table. Now i have full travel and resistence going down but most importantly there is force pulling on the pedal which makes it easier to moderate braking. Problem is that in a real car you moderate braking through pressure while with our pedals we moderate through travel. That is totally different and thats what i would prefer since im still far from happy with th braking because gpl braking is such a bitch. I once tried the hyperstim braking and it was like a car,totally awesome,i was wondering if anyone has come up with something like that.

Hi I use a Hyperstimulator. The brake pedal is movement sensetive. But the movement is smal, and the spring is very hard. I like it. Trye do something simular. Stefan Zscharnack "Danny" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:zV7t5.2131$[email hidden]... > Was wondering if anyone has come up with a really good braking system for > GPL. > > I have a microsoft wheel and ive tried the squash ball but im not happywith

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> it. > > Ive come up with a diff system. > Instead of putting somethnig UNDER the pedal which restricts movement,ive > hooked up a large spring on the top of the pedal going to a railing on my > table. > > Now i have full travel and resistence going down but most importantly

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> is force pulling on the pedal which makes it easier to moderate braking. > > Problem is that in a real car you moderate braking through pressure while > with our pedals we moderate through travel. > > That is totally different and thats what i would prefer since im still far > from happy with th braking because gpl braking is such a bitch. > > I once tried the hyperstim braking and it was like a car,totally awesome,i > was wondering if anyone has come up with something like that. > >

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> > Was wondering if anyone has come up with a really good braking system for > GPL. > > I have a microsoft wheel and ive tried the squash ball but im not happy with > it. > > Ive come up with a diff system. > Instead of putting somethnig UNDER the pedal which restricts movement,ive > hooked up a large spring on the top of the pedal going to a railing on my > table. > > Now i have full travel and resistence going down but most importantly there > is force pulling on the pedal which makes it easier to moderate braking. > > Problem is that in a real car you moderate braking through pressure while > with our pedals we moderate through travel. > > That is totally different and thats what i would prefer since im still far > from happy with th braking because gpl braking is such a bitch. > > I once tried the hyperstim braking and it was like a car,totally awesome,i > was wondering if anyone has come up with something like that.

I have found some sort of solution by inverting the pedal unit. So now the way pedals travel is similar to the real car. No more stretching the toes. However, I had to construct the frame under table, that sits under the table and has vertical element to which the pedal unit is attached. This also switches throtle and brake pedals, however it can be fixed by calibration. I was playing GP2 at the time I've made that modification and it gave me 0.2-0.3 right away. Besides, feets are not getting tired in the long races. Alex.

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> > Was wondering if anyone has come up with a really good braking system for > GPL. > > I have a microsoft wheel and ive tried the squash ball but im not happy with > it. > > Ive come up with a diff system. > Instead of putting somethnig UNDER the pedal which restricts movement,ive > hooked up a large spring on the top of the pedal going to a railing on my > table. > > Now i have full travel and resistence going down but most importantly there > is force pulling on the pedal which makes it easier to moderate braking. > > Problem is that in a real car you moderate braking through pressure while > with our pedals we moderate through travel. > > That is totally different and thats what i would prefer since im still far > from happy with th braking because gpl braking is such a bitch. > > I once tried the hyperstim braking and it was like a car,totally awesome,i > was wondering if anyone has come up with something like that.

I got a really simple Thrustmaster Sprint setup, but I've managed to 'tweak' it really great. The pedals on it are small, which is really welcome since it enabled me to just wedge a (properly cut) eraser rubber under it, and teh whole pedal setup is leaning on a small plate that is itself leaning on the wall, so there is abslutely no problem with slipping the light pedal unit. Since the travel on the brake is really small, now I basically modulate it with pressure directly. I need to press really hard to push it to the bottom, while it is really light for small travel. Only the accelerator could use a bit more travel, but I can live with the way it is now. Plus, the it has additional two paddles on the wheel that the original setup program doesn't use, but if you make a customized controller setup you can use that as clutch. I think what I've got is pretty neat, especially considering how cheap it was. I know it's not of much help to you, but I feel kind of smug ;). -Gregor