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what's up guys Jays two cents here and if you've been following me for any length of time more than just even a couple of days you've probably learned by now that I have just as much of a love and passion for automotive racing as I do for custom pcs and technology yeah Oh so how do you put the two together well you build yourself a kick-ass racing cockpit like this to play on your kick-ass gaming PC it's pretty obvious now what I'm sitting in right here is the Oh butter revolution offered by main performance PC their base right here in the u.s. they're made in the US so that already is a plus as far as I'm concerned but they're built by racing enthusiasts themselves the guys who make this literally breathe and live this life so who else would you want a racing cockpit from then one that's built by racing enthusiasts themself that also build crazy computers now if you want to know more about the wheel pedal and shifter setup and I have added the hydro brake since the video about to reference go and check out my video about the fana tech stuff the focus of today's videos can be more so about the frame that I'm sitting in itself as already mentioned this is the O but o revolution this is not the first racing cockpit I've taken a look at on this channel but I can tell you this definitely steps it up a notch over the GT Omega arc cockpit that I was using a couple years ago now also want to lead in with the fact that it does come with an independent triple monitor stand that I'm not using and not showing in this video but you can see it on the website because I actually do my racing in virtual reality so I don't need the screens in front of me I use the HTC vive hmd so it allows me to have a virtual reality experience with all of this which makes it feel like I'm really there especially when I'm sitting in a racing seat like this so keep that in mind there is a monitor stand that I'm not showing here but what you guys see right here is all built and made in the US that is a huge thing because most manufacturing doesn't take place in the US anymore they're using tubular steel construction the welds on here are gorgeous and it's got a massive weight capacity no idea what the weight capacity is guys I'm about 260 pounds yeah I'm a fatty I know but this thing holds me with no problem whatsoever and that's obviously due to the tubular steel construction the amazing welds and it's all reinforced where it matters I mean when I'm sitting here this thing is not rocking and bending and creaking all over the place it is solid it's not going anywhere now starting with the pedal base it's pretty cool because it's got adjustable angle of attack so you can change what angle the pedals are at and it's a pre-drilled for all your common types like the fan of tech obviously the g27 225 the logitech stuff the Thrustmaster 500 stuff which is also very popular so it's literally just a plug-and-play u-bolt your your pedals onto there and you're good to go you adjust the angle if your pedals are not adjustable and I chose to leave it on the flattest settings because the fanta tech club sport pedals are actually pretty upright already so I don't want them feeling awkward what I would have liked though which is to have seen some way of hanging the pedals that way they feel more like a street car but then again a lot of race cars have floor-mounted pedals anyway so this is fine that was a pretty easy thing to get over now moving up to the base for the steering wheel it is height adjustable it's got this giant knob underneath that you can loosen and you can move the steering wheel closer to you farther away from you you can even adjust the angle of the steering wheel and again it's pre-drilled for your common steering wheel servos and you have a little bit of angle adjustment which is kind of nice I would have liked to have angled the wheel back just slightly it's really up and down at the moment but if I did that then it puts the wheel a little bit higher because the angle is more of a pivot rather than just a tilt so we're not going to so I don't want to raise it up any higher than it is I'm six foot four this is a perfect height for me some of my other friends who are not quite as tall might find the wheel to be more like right in their face and look like Grandma driving to do to church on Sunday and we don't want that so it's perfect where it is for me now something that's really cool that's included with the cockpit is this keyboard and mouse tray now it's on an articulating arm you can push it away and pull it near you you could use it technically as a work platform you'll put your mouse and keyboard on and use it as kind of like a workstation if you wanted to it's also got this really nice neoprene cut-to-fit pad on top which acts as a mousepad as well as a protection you know for the surface and things aren't going to be sliding all over the place and scratching its even height adjustable so you can move it up and down in the mounting arm so you can get it just right my only problem with this is it's pretty heavy and because of that and all the different joints that are built into the arm it's got a bit of play in there so it can kind of wiggle up and down a little bit I've actually taken this apart and tightened up the joints as tight as I possibly can it doesn't really seem to make any improvement because there's just so much torque on this arm when this thing is extended out I feel like that bearing is wearing a little bit so I wouldn't necessarily recommend trying to use this as a workstation in lieu of a desk but the nice thing is it's included it gives you a place to put your mouse and keyboard especially when you're you know change in between your games and stuff you're not having to reach down the floor and whatever else now let's go and move on to the seat because that is in my opinion the most important part of any racing cockpit doesn't matter how good the wheel mount is the shifter mount the pedal mount if the seat sucks it doesn't matter you're not going to enjoy playing on this thing now the nice thing about the butter revolution seat is not only is it extremely robust and durable it definitely has a racecar feel it's certainly a bucket obviously it's not a fixed seat it is an adjustable back so you can change the how upright you are in the seat if you want a gangster lean you can do that but I digress don't do that then I say it's made out of fabric now it's got these really nice kind of leatherette almost carbon-fiber looking inserts in there that give it a nice racing feel but the problem with the other cockpit that I had was it was a leather seat so sitting in that for any length of time whatsoever meant that I was sweating through my clothes and leaving sweaty butt prints on the seat which made the next person that would get in after me to want to play go in I'm sitting in Jays butt sweat that's just gross yeah NIC actually said that once that's okay I sat in his butt - I - so fabric is obviously breathable which means you can play in this for a while and get up and you're not going to leave sweaty prints all over the seats the padding in here is also firm but soft enough to where you feel comfortable and not like you're sitting on a rock but firm enough to where you also feel like you're pretty supported now something to keep in mind if you've got broad shoulders like me of course the shoulder supports on the seat might start to feel a little bit restrictive but when you got your hands forward and you're on the wheel your shoulders kind of roll forward a little bit and you fit in there nicely but if you're a broad-shouldered fella or you're a bro at the gym and you're constantly doing upper body and shoulders then you're probably going to feel like this is a little bit restrictive unfortunately this is the only seat offered so it's not something you can really change out and of course it is on a slider so you can't adjust it forward and back now let's move on to the shifter here this is also the club sport shifter from fnatic I also have a hydro brake mounted to it which means I'm constantly yanking and pulling on this thing you might have noticed though that this is the one mount on this brand that is not a tubular construction that's because I'm not actually using the mount that came with the Oh butter revolution this is actually directly off my art cockpit and the nice thing is the holes actually mounted up perfectly they lined it perfectly so I just ran the same bolts through and I'm using this to mount my shifter now the reason for that is this is what comes with the old butter revolution you can see it's another one of these tubular arms that are welded pieces together and you got this platform here that you can mount your shifter to the problem is because it's round stock one it can kind of twist a little bit in the mount and as I'm pulling on the hydro brake which is off to the side of where this mounts it puts side leverage on it which means it's constantly wanting to turn same thing when I'm rowing through the shifters what I have friends that get on here I think they forget they're in a racing simulator and they just start to like cram the hell out of this thing that's like help folder you guys here actually has a couple are pretty neat right they just start rowing the hell through the shifter and start slamming it like they're in a real gearbox I don't understand that they forget they can just it's just it's just little switches guys you don't have to throw it around but the hydro brake you know that's spring loaded there's a lot of tension on that the problem with though like I said is this thing wants to move around no matter how much I crank it down which is really kind of annoying I could put a drill a hole through it and do a nut and a bolt that would keep it from moving but then I lose the quick removability of it removability on it that's a word the other reason why I'm not using it is because I'm lazy and it doesn't come with holes drilled for the shifter which I thought was very odd now this is going to be one of the things that I give it a negative for its got pre-drilled holes for the different pedal manufacturers it's got pre-drilled holes for the different steering wheel base manufactures I don't understand why they left out the shifter that's one of the reasons why I'm using this one here because the GT Omega has the universal mounting holes on the bottom and my fanta tech club sport shifter mounted right up to it so when I saw that the holes lined up we pretty much took the easy way out and just did that but trust me and I say I'd rather use this one here so I'm probably going to find a way to mount this and make it more rigid in the future but this has been working for me just fine so far the placement of it is working really well and I'm happy with that one thing that's nice to see though is it does have some cable management in mind you can actually run the cables for the steering wheel right down through the neck on the frame and they come out the back you could just hit tie it neatly like I did and kind of put them out of the way it would have been nice though to have maybe another cleaner way to bring the cables from the frame to the shifter especially since the length of the cables often are not enough to run them a zip-tie them along the whole frame like I kind of did with the power cable but they're kind of off to the side here it doesn't really matter and I might explore a cleaner way to do that in the future but it's really hasn't bothered me I haven't kicked it or bumped it on accident so it's not really an issue now this is actually a newer revision than barnacles barclays has one of these as well that's why I wanted it because I saw his in person and I thought this was such a nice and well built frame I wanted it but it turns out his doesn't actually have the pre-drilled holes for the servo base for the fan of tech and whatnot now the club sport pedals I believe mounted with the bass in it so they've made some changes to drilling holes to the bass I just still wish they had done that for the shifter anyway I think you're going to be hard-pressed to find a better racing cockpit especially for this price it comes at about $700 and I know that sounds like a lot of money but trust me these things get up into the thousands so the build quality that you get for this price point I think it's pretty much unmatched and I'm going to go guys thanks for watching today's video and if you're a car enthusiast and a PC enthusiast you should definitely do yourself a favor and consider building something like this this whole setup the whole thing with the steering wheel and everything can be had for about 2500 again I know it's a lot of money that's still so cheap compared to how expensive they can get thanks for watching guys as always I will see you in