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Chrispy_ wrote:That's pretty great progress.
Your sub was ported, but the original sounding box would have been responsible for most of the volume, I'd imagine. If you build a sounding box over the back of the subwoofer you should find a huge increase in volume and sound quality. It doesn't have to be square, it could be triangular in cross section - and just fill it with the wool that the original was filled with.
DPete27 wrote:The lacking stiffness of your steering wheel frame is due to it being a cantilever. Simply adding a 45 degree diagonal strut from the frame right behind the shifter that goes up to the vertical post of the main frame would help things out a lot (looks like angling down is a no go due to leg clearance).
In my experience, ergonomics are the most difficult design aspect. Think of how many adjustable points there are in your car seat and steering wheel. It could be a good thing to allow the steering wheel frame to be adjusted vertically since your seat is fixed. Perhaps simply by adding holes at 1" increments along the vertical posts of the frame. Granted, that would require a fair amount of fiddling for adjustment due to bolts and nuts and such, but at least it's something.
One other idea that I can think of (as I'm typing this on my Varidesk) is to use pins instead of bolts. Pins allow much quicker changing of position. Think of each vertical post having holes pointing toward your center speaker, then gusset plates on the steering wheel frame that use snapper pins. In that orientation, it wouldn't matter to have a tight bolted connection since the gusset plates will keep the frame from moving horizontally. You'd probably want 2 pins on each side of the steering wheel tray, but that would get you the added stiffness of a diagonal strut as described in my first paragraph.
Was going to comment on your sub. But it looks like Chrispy beat me to it. I don't have much experience in building speaker enclosures, but I did have a custom built car sub back in high school that someone in the know built for me. The port didn't come in time for the installation in the car, so I had to drive around for a week with no port. When we did install the port, the difference was incredible.
DPete27 wrote:Is there room to mount the shifter on the door frame? Just in front of your cup holder possibly. It seems that would be the most "natural" location for it.
krazyredboy wrote:It will just be interesting to see how well I can do this while maintaining the ability to easily get in and out of the seat without bruising some knees...
morphine wrote:Man, I'd like to think I'm pretty good with \m/ metal \m/, but you're actually good with metal.
Robotics wrote:I am exited about this project. I followed you for a long time. Good Game man! Cheers!
Waco wrote:This is turning out far more cool than I expected...and now I want to build one myself!
DPete27 wrote:I think you've done a great job. Personally, I browsed through the CM mod '17 forums and decided to retract my submission for my radio case. Just too many "professional" case modders over there I felt like I didn't stand a chance. No matter what the outcome of the actual competition, it's clear that your project has been a hit at TR, and that's something to be very proud of. I hope you get to enjoy it for many many hours of gameplay.
Redocbew wrote:You are my new favorite person on the Internet.
I don't know where I'd put such a thing, but I kind of want one anyway.
Captain Ned wrote:1968 Mustang in the driveway?