Hey everyone
I decided a few weeks ago to try and build a driving cab, and as the project its going a lot quicker than i thought, i figured its time to start a thread about it. Anyway, I've always loved Mario Kart for N64 and to this day its probably still my favorite video game, so i decided i wanted to theme my cab around Mario Kart 64.To start out, i had previously tried my hand at cabinet building, but i was lucky enough to have a neighbor throwing away an old NBA Jam. I took all my parts and put them in the NBA Jam cab and i was left with two sides of my custom cabinet. When i decided to build a driving cabinet, i knew i wanted to use my sides that i already had. this is a pic of one of the sides:
I spent the last week or two coming up with something that would fit within the already cut out sides of my previous build but i finally have something that I'm happy with. I really like the newer style driving cabinets like Sega Racing Classic and H2Overdrive so i tried to do something like that. what i came up with is a pretty thin and small cabinet that will house a 26" LCD. Its about 68" high and 28" wide and with the seat attached it'll be about 58" long.
the black is my original design, the green is the seat and seat base which are obviously rough sketches because they're not designed yet. last, the red is my dash board. this is the part that's been the most perplexing so far. I took measurements off of Faster Than Speed cab where i work and that's what i used for the spacing between the pedals, the seat, and the steering wheel, but i just don't think it looks right. what do you guys think? Any input on the dash/ control panel would be great!
So this is where i am right now:
-I've created a template for the sides (the black part anyway) and as soon as i resolve the dash board issue, I'll be cutting those out
-i got a great deal on a red namco seat (similar to the mario kart gp seat)
-I'm waiting for the pc components i ordered to start putting that together