Originally I had an arcade wheel retrofitted with a power module and a wireless wheel PCB and it worked pretty good and was very heavy but it ultimately proved to have a little to much looseness in it and was hard to tweak. The Microsoft wheel is very adequate...I had to print a coupler and an extension using my 3d printer to get the steering column length where I needed it. Overall I am happy. Yes I realize there are better wheels, but I did not want to drop $200 on a good wheel for just marginal gains. I was also trying to work with a space that the cabinet gave me and the Microsoft wheel was one of the shortest profiles to fit the gap. I also learned how to bend plastic when creating the dashboard. I used the existing pedals and wired the Microsoft pedals into them with some minor potentiometer tweaking. Due to where it was going to sit in my arcade I had to remove the coin box column and cut out a leg cutout that was identical to the right side. The brakes are also wired to the taillights which light up when applying brakes. The nice thing about the whole cabinet is that i wired it all to come on when the Xbox is powered up and it all powers off when the Xbox is powered off. I stole 12v off the xbox 360 dvd power supply and used that to power a relay that runs the switching. (You need a tv that remembers the power state if power is removed to perfectly do this). The Xbox 360 is a JTAG and i am struggling trying to get the driving games moved from my dvds to the external HD so I don't have to drop dvds each time when selecting a game. The good news is though, is you can buy all the good driving games for xbox 360 these days for next to nothing which is why I went that route when selecting that console to run the cabinet. I use Soul Draw for all my artwork. I create it in Photoshop and send to them. The marquee, the dashboard decal and the two side boxes for the seat were $65 total. I think the sideart was like right around $100 (been awhile since that was done). So all my artwork came in well under $200. The floor boards were custom ordered from cut2sizemetals.com and were $85 total.
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