I have a Fanatec Porsche 911 Turbo Wheel with very similar Paddles and I'm also looking for a way to make them better. Please tell me if you Mod yours.

FREX is very, very expensive and sells everything in parts too !
And you have to build the wheel yourself you only get the parts but once it works you will love it no doubt ^^.

Quote from brt900 :

and you can buy the 911 turbo wheeel on its own?

Nope and that's why it's "more expensive" xD.

anyway b2t

Have you done any work in the last few days ?

Quote from brt900 :

but the gt3 rs with the clubsports?

You said (wrote) wheel not wheel/pedal set or something like that ^^.

I'm not poor. To be honest I live with my parents but that's normal for a teenager. My family has enough money and we always have enough to eat. There are so many people which doesn't know if they will have enough food for the next day. I know that I will have something to eat for the next 2 months. I'm neither poor nor rich. I'm just a person with the average amount of money (when I say average i mean the amount of money the average austrian has).

And no the Fanatec Turbo isn't the cheapest Fanatec wheel. The cheapest is the GT3RS wheel. If you want a Turbo you have to buy it with the shifter and the pedals but you can buy the GT3RS for less money without pedals and a shifter. That's why the GT3RS is the cheapest Fanatec wheel.

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There are around 50-60k other ''Yeah even me xD'' licence owners out there.

To be honest those 26€ I spent for LfS, were one of the best investments i've ever done. 26€ isn't much, is it ?

And no, I'm not poor. I'm a proud Fanatec Porsche 911 Turbo wheel owner ^^.

Quote from morpha :

Anyone with an LFS demo compatible computer and internet connection can afford an S2 licence.

Yeah even me xD

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ya i ended up miss calculating on my gearing and now i have 2 3/4 turns each direction :smash:

LoL ur cool man ^^. Keep working on this piece of hardware and find your cam !

Nice. Does it have FFB ? Are you planning to add it ? You could use the PCB and FFB of a Logitech/Fanatec/Thrustmaster wheel use their drivers so u don't have to do it yourself.

Are you also going to make Pedals and a Shifter ?

What I#m personally sometimes missing in the leather of my Fanatec Turbo is the grip. My hands are really sweaty and i can't drive Race Cars fast without my gloves, because there isn't enough grips between the wheel and my hands. For drifting and cruising it's just nice but for racing I use gloves.
I think that is not an issue of the wheel I think it's me. My friend has bought a DFGT. Next time I will visit him I'll try his wheel out and look if I have the same grip problem and how it feels compared to my Fanatec.

But to be honest I LOVE the leather of the Turbo, how it feels and how it smells. After a long driving or drifting session without gloves my hands smell like the wheel. I really like that ^^. It may sound weird for some people but I think I felt in love with this peace of hardware.

A real issue of the wheel are the paddles. The GT3RS and the Turbo S have a black metal plate wich makes the paddles bigger but the Turbo doesn't. The paddles are so tiny and sometimes (in corners for example) hard to reach. I'm just thinking if I should make metal plates for my paddles, but im not sure how to stick them on the paddles-button things. I could screw them on it but when I do that I could damage the PCB or cables. I think I will ask some other Turbo users if they are planning somthing like that too and do it together with them. For GT3RS and PWTS users it's easier because they can just unscrew that metal plate and replace it with a bigger one.

Any ideas how to make those paddles bigger ?


(Sry for my not perfect english. I'm a teenager and I'm still learning this language. I hope you understand what I want to tell you and I would love it if someone tells me how to say/explain something better)

Many simracers told me that they use their GT3RS since months and the Alacantara feels just as nice at it felt on the first day. I don't know why your wheel doesn't.

When did you get yours ?

OK then. I'm happy that I was able to help.

You could buy a Fanatec Porsche 911 GT3RS Wheel with Clubsport Pedals (wich are brilliant) for 300€ but you wouldn't have a Shifter. The Fanatec shifter costs 50€.You could also buy a G27 from Logitech for less then 300€ (depending on where you buy it). It has a 6Speed H pattern shifter and nice Pedals too, wich aren't as good as the Fanatec Clubsport ones.

The Pros and Cons for both Wheels :

911 GT3RS & CSP(Clubsportpedals):
Pros: -Very Strong FFB (some people say it's better then the FFB of the G25/27 and DFGT)
-Very good Pedals (changable spring strength and brake pedal with loadcell, pedals are made of metal and they dont have potentiometres, wich would have wear, that means you could use them for the rest of your life)
-Nice Alacantara Leather
-Led display
-Belt driven FFB (pretty quite too)
-Good H-Shifter
-2 extra Vibration motors (a big one for FFB and 2 for the Vibration)
-Has a seqential shifter
-Many buttons on the wheel

Cons: -Many wheels have decalibration problems
-Some people have bad experience with the Fanatec support
-Costs a lot
-You have to pay an extra 50€ for the shifters
G27 :
Pros: -FFB is also quite
-Costs less then the GT3RS
-Nice leather
-H-Shifter is good too(but maybe not as good as the Fanatec one)
-Good FFB(but as said before some people say (also the guys from SRT) that the FFB of the Fanatec wheels is better)
-Shift indicator

Cons: -Not belt driven FFB
-No LED display
-Worse Pedals
-No seq shifter
-No vibration motors
-less buttons on the wheel

I hope that helps.I have a Fanatec Turbo wheel and I like it. It never happened that the FFB isn't strong enough. I don't have problems with it.

You could also buy the Clubsport pedals and use it with the DFGT if you don't need an h-shifter.Then you would have a nice wheel, nice pedals and a seq. shifter.You could also buy a used SST or Act Labs h-shifter or a FFB Joystick and use it with the ffshifter tool as an h-shifter.

300€ is a lot of money and there are many opportunities how to spend them. I hope that in the end you are content with your new wheel/pedal/shifter combination.

In Germany the G27 costs about 270 - 300 €.
Your mother could buy it at Alternate for 300€.
Alternate

The Adress:
ALTERNATE
Computer Shop
Philipp-Reis- Str. 2-3
D-35440 Linden

It's not in Hannover.Look at Google Earth or Google Maps.

I can look for more Shops tomorrow.