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Help with sidewinder wheel

3 posts by 3 people · 28 Mar 1999 - 04 Apr 1999

Gr?nsage 28 Mar 1999#458694
Does anyone know if you can change the response of the brake and throttle pedal on the sidewinder wheel. because the pedals are much harder to control than my old steering wheel. my lap times has dropped by one second and i crash alot more. i hope someone can help me.
BendsMast 02 Apr 1999#459721
I have two sedewinder wheels and one of them is brand new, the other is few months old. A couple of weeks ago I started using the new one, and the first thing I noticed was that the pedals were much harder to control. But 2 weeks on (and about as many hours of GPL as you can fit in... Vain hopes of racing on-line someday...) and the pedals are much softer now, nearly as much as the old one. I guess this happens due to the fact that is just new, I suppose. By the way,the reason I have two wheels is because the old one started an awful squeaking noise both on the pedals and the wheel after a lot of use. I've never used a steering wheel other than the sidewinder,and if the sidewinder is the best wheel out there, then I would say these wheels have a long way to go before any good one comes to existence. And another thing, without the force feedback effect -which is very poor on games currently available, the sidewinder seems to me to be nothing special and far too expensive, also the first one I bought hasn't been reliable, let's see how far my second purchase goes. Cheers
Lewis Hosie 04 Apr 1999#460097
I was hopeless on the brakes untill I finally perfected a closed cell foam bumper for the brake pedal. Now they feel much more like real brakes, you have to really push to get them to lockup. Get yourself some cable ties and some tough but flexable closed cell foam. Cut some triangles and poke the cableties thru the bottom and attach to the bottom of the brake pedal thru the existing holes. Expirement with shapes and weakening cuts until you like the feel, spongyness and travel. Works for me. Lew Hosier
Quoted text (25 lines)> >Does anyone know if you can change the response of the brake and throttle > >pedal on the sidewinder wheel. because the pedals are much harder to control > >than my old steering wheel. my lap times has dropped by one second and i > >crash alot more. > >i hope someone can help me. > I have two sedewinder wheels and one of them is brand new, the other > is few months old. A couple of weeks ago I started using the new one, > and the first thing I noticed was that the pedals were much harder to > control. But 2 weeks on (and about as many hours of GPL as you can fit > in... Vain hopes of racing on-line someday...) and the pedals are much > softer now, nearly as much as the old one. I guess this happens due to > the fact that is just new, I suppose. > By the way,the reason I have two wheels is because the old one started > an awful squeaking noise both on the pedals and the wheel after a lot > of use. > I've never used a steering wheel other than the sidewinder,and if the > sidewinder is the best wheel out there, then I would say these wheels > have a long way to go before any good one comes to existence. > And another thing, without the force feedback effect -which is very > poor on games currently available, the sidewinder seems to me to be > nothing special and far too expensive, also the first one I bought > hasn't been reliable, let's see how far my second purchase goes. > Cheers

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