Went down tonight to play some Grid and got a little side tracked. Decided it was time to get that e-brake installed somehow so I could compete in the drift competitions. Pulled the seat off and the adjustment bracket that allows you to move forward and backwards with the seat and I got side tracked again....
It's been in my head since last week when I went to an arcade and was playing some new driving games that my cabinet is lacking in the bass area. After I left the arcade I went home and hooked up the subwoofer under the seat but it didn't have the feeling of power behind it. At the arcade I was rumbling and at my house It sounded like a crappy under powered subwoofer.
When I had my seats upside down this is what I discovered.
Emergency call seat:
Sega Rally? 2? seat:
Both beside each other
So as you can see my emergency call seat had a small subwoofer inside, while the sega rally? 2? seat had a bass shaker inside.
http://www.amazon.com/Aura-AST-2B-4-Pro-Bass-Shaker/dp/B0002ZPTBII couldn't direct swap the bass shaker into my seat mount because of how the shaker mounted vs the subwoofer. You can see how the bracket was much deeper to make room for the shaker to attach directly to the supporting braces that go up the back of the seat where the gold coloured bolts attach. I'm assuming this is to make sure the shaker will rattle the whole seat.
The subwoofer on the other hand didn't attach to anything it simply sat in a hole. It attached with four screws, two up top, two bellow but the screwed into the plastic and didn't attach to the support bars that go up the back of the seat. The whole seat is plastic and not suitable for mounting the shaker on.
I ended up mounting the shaker onto the top of the seat back/forth slider so that it would be bolted directly to the supporting braces up the back of the seat and still have a solid metal surface to vibrate on. The shaker then has the clearance from the old subwoofer hole to sit and not get in the way. The slider as shown here has to be flipped upside down to be bolted.
Technically the shaker is mounted 180 degreed so the way it was mounted before ie it sat flat side to the seat/ fin side to the ground, and now it sits flat side to the ground/ fin side facing towards the seat.
I would like to add an actual subwoofer back into the system at some point but I will probably mount one below the floor where I have my other components such as computer mounted. The shaker is more suited for under the seat where you can feel it vs the bass which can be heard from anywhere in the cabinet.
On an unrelated note I finally got around to installing a power button for my pc. Beats lifting up the seat and touching two loose wires together. It's the little red one in the middle.
So much for playing any games tonight! Still no e-brake!