Adding an actual arcade steering wheel to my mame cabinet

[ratabase1]

 ???Has anybody added an actual steering wheel and shifter from an arcade game (ie. pole position)?  I am in the process of getting a steering/shifter from a pole position arcade game and would like to incorporate it into my mame cabinet.  I would like to still have two player controls (joysticks and 6 buttons each).   Any help on the best way to integrate this into my cabinet would be appreciated, and if they have any pictures of their control panel.  Thanks.

[pocketbikez]

u can easily hack the pole postion steering wheel with a oscarcontrols.com optic board and usb mouse interface.

u can also hack a 270 degree steering wheel, like in spyhunter or outrun, with a 5k potentiometer and a microsoft dual-strike joystick hack.

the shifter is a different story. it is a single microswitch on-off type and it wont work properly to play pole position in mame. test play the driving games in mame and see how the shifting inputs work. i plan on using a 4-way shifter from happcontrols.com and it plays every single driving game in mame, with the exception of outrunners and the 6 speed shifter cars.

[Minwah]

u can easily hack the pole postion steering wheel with a oscarcontrols.com optic board and usb mouse interface.

I expect you could even use the original arcade optics to connect to a USB mouse / mouse hack / Opti-Pac.  I thought I read somewhere that *some* Atari optics are not suitable for this, I suppose you could try it and see.  I have a PolePos wheel and will be doing just that

[Brad Lee]

u can easily hack the pole postion steering wheel with a oscarcontrols.com optic board and usb mouse interface.

I expect you could even use the original arcade optics to connect to a USB mouse / mouse hack / Opti-Pac.  I thought I read somewhere that *some* Atari optics are not suitable for this, I suppose you could try it and see.  I have a PolePos wheel and will be doing just that

Ive got a Ironman Stewart Offroad wheel with the original optos- Gonna try a few different things to see what works. From the manual I know which pins are 5v and ground, and the 2 data pins. Im gonna try hacking it to a mouse board first to see if it works, then from the original board to my optipac.
I think its the same wheel as Sprint/SuperSprint so if findings are good that could be a couple new options for people