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gavsta72
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Re: Hyperdrive Racing Cockpits

004.jpg003.jpgOK, i've built the seat raiser and attached a dashboard.......all good so far

 

All up $10.50 for a sheet of MDF for the seat raiser, and the dashboard was made from a piece of pine i had lying around, plus screws and glue i already had...........no way i was gonna pay $130 for a seat raiser from Hyperdrive. I added a support on the seat raiser (as suggested by PAPO) to stop the seat flexing back.

 

I'll do a few hours of driving to make sure the seat is the right height and distance from the wheel, then i'll give it a coat of black paint which i also have in the shed.

 

BTW, i cancelled my order from Hyperdrive because i found this 2nd hand one on ebay instead, $160 with the premium padded seat cover, including delivery. The same thing new, with the premium padded seat cover is $272 delivered

 

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Re: Hyperdrive Racing Cockpits

looking good gav

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Re: Hyperdrive Racing Cockpits

pfft you ended up with a yellow one, I have the cool silver one :smileytongue:

 

and that seat raiser looks a lot better than the one I biult

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Cheers guys.....

Btw the "grill" looking thing on both sides of the seat raiser is actually an old wooden CD rack

@PAPO yeah i didn't really liked the look of the silver ones, so when i saw this on ebay i thought awesome, it has more of a racing car look in a funny sort of way
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Looking good Gav..


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Thanks kiwi :Thumbs:

 

OK all finished now............ so $170 all up and i'm as happy as !!

Now where's GT5..........hurry up Polyphony

 

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