I keep looking at real pedals in a car, and looking at my logitech Pedals and thinking to one's self, you can turn these upside down, swap the pedals over.

has anybody ever done this?

Ok might sound a little confusing. But take the whole Pedal base. Turn it upside down, so pedals are pointing to the floor. Now, tilt you pedal base backward ( away from you ) about 80 degrees. Then mounting them to your desk like this.

With them mounted this way, like in real cars, you are pushing the pedals away from you, not down to the floor.

Sounds good, or Completely Dumb

Fordie

I've thought of this too, was going to but well didn't bother lol. Mainly because my MOMO pedals have different stiffnesses so the gas would be too light.

Definitely a workable idea

Most road cars have upper pivoted pedals for cost/packaging sakes
Most race cars have floor mounted pedals for better precision.

Think about it - which way do your heels bend? Top mounted pedals picot the other way, causing weird relative motions (which you won't notice in a road car).

Quote from tristancliffe :

Most road cars have upper pivoted pedals for cost/packaging sakes
Most race cars have floor mounted pedals for better precision.

id still prefer top a top mounted clutch and brake pedal ... after all most cars in lfs are road cars
and i think the top mounted brake floor mounted gas layout is best for heel and toeing
and iirc most of the gtr type race cars ive seen in-car videos of (like the mclaren f1) use that layout

Quote from NotAnIllusion :

Mainly because my MOMO pedals have different stiffnesses so the gas would be too light.

Definitely a workable idea

No No, swapping the pedals over so you take the springs with you

Quote from Tristan :

Most road cars have upper pivoted pedals for cost/packaging sakes
Most race cars have floor mounted pedals for better precision.

Think about it - which way do your heels bend? Top mounted pedals picot the other way, causing weird relative motions (which you won't notice in a road car).

So you saying that Ferrari and the like use Logitech Pedals

Well so far, 3 replys and notbody said it was a dumb idea Hmm, where is those spare set of pedals.

Quote from Fordman :

Well so far, 3 replys and notbody said it was a dumb idea

hmmm in that case i can do you a favour ... it is a dumb idea (the dumb part being that you consider using logitech pedals for this)

I've also thought many times about this. But I think I'd rather build myself a full set of custom pedals. I saw one idea over in the controller forum of RSC that I really really liked, and it looked really simple.

NotAnIllusion, as Fordman said, take the pedal base apart and swap the pedals around. That way you still have 2 springs on the brake and the longer pedal for the throttle. Logitech's pedals may not be of the best hardware, but they are extremely simple inside. Go ahead, take a peak in there. I disassembled mine 15 minutes before a league race to fix the pot before and still made it to the starting grid in time. Had the thing completely tore apart. Really, all there is in there is 2 pedals, 3 springs, and 2 pots. The base assembly is what holds the pedals in there.

Quote from Fordman :

No No, swapping the pedals over so you take the springs with you

Yeah I figured you'd want to do something like that. Was just saying that I'll end up breaking the pedals as my DIY skills are about as good as a drunken frog's

Quote from Shotglass :

hmmm in that case i can do you a favour ... it is a dumb idea (the dumb part being that you consider using logitech pedals for this)

Well when you have a spare set, why not Dont cost naut then

http://forum.rscnet.org/showth ... p;highlight=pedals+upside
http://forum.rscnet.org/attach ... d=270569&d=1112274178

Hehehe, Avih, I was going to mention here something I did to help the pedal angle and feel I have, but I moved on in the link to your RSC thread to the next response and thought, hmm, that's what I did. I looked at the author of the response and ROFL, it was me. So if you want to know how mine are setup, read the first response in Avih's RSC thread .

Another thing I've seen (or read in threads) that some have done is instead of completely building and wiring a set of pedals from scratch, they just built the pedals to push and deflect the original pedals, thus no wiring involved.

Saitek's pedal's are almost like this. You're almost pushing the pedals away from you. The wheels are cheap and nasty, but the pedals I use have been going strong since 0.1 days - they take the force away from the pot (making them last longer) and act more like real pedals.

Quote from tristancliffe :

Most road cars have upper pivoted pedals for cost/packaging sakes
Most race cars have floor mounted pedals for better precision.

Think about it - which way do your heels bend? Top mounted pedals picot the other way, causing weird relative motions (which you won't notice in a road car).

The only problem with top mounted pedals is just that. Which is why the comfort spot in road car pedals is damnfast per hour.

I have been thinking of doing something like this. But I give up the planning stage and just make do with what I have. More so because I'm at uni and I don't think they'd want me to mount some plastic to the base of the desk ¬_¬ Plus the fact these desks are made of gold... or should be, at £500 a pop :|