Re: The Official Non Sequitur Thread, "And now for something COMPLETELY different..."

**RackAttack** on Mon 5 Mar - 22:00:54

So, I won the GTP WRS Time Trial this week cheers

http://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?t=246469

**HWKII** on Mon 5 Mar - 22:30:17

Congrats!

**Forgetful** on Mon 5 Mar - 22:30:54

noice!

**AgentWD40_FL** on Tue 6 Mar - 3:41:38

very impressive!

**clacksman** on Tue 6 Mar - 5:32:56

Wow, exactly 0 recognizable names from Prologue WRS

**clacksman** on Wed 7 Mar - 4:30:40

http://jalopnik.com/5891071/the-ferrari-f12-berlinetta-launch-video-is-epic-car-porn

**Forgetful** on Wed 7 Mar - 11:24:47

http://jalopnik.com/5891279/whats-the-best-virtual-car-photo

**HWKII** on Wed 7 Mar - 12:41:18

Lies, my Ferrari 330 P4 coming out of the esses at Le Mans is better looking than that. Well, it's not as shiny and crisp and wrong as the FM4 picture, but it's far more likely to make you go "Wait.. virtual?". Your signature image is another example, Forgetful, of a significantly more realistic photograph of a virtual world.

Many of the images I've seen any of our photographers post from GT5 look much better, more realistic, than that picture.

**Forgetful** on Wed 7 Mar - 12:51:01

Which is why I spammed them with my 34 best pictures Smile

http://jalopnik.com/5891279/whats-the-best-virtual-car-photo?comment=47715858#comments

It's their Question of the day, so they're looking for submissions.

**RackAttack** on Thu 8 Mar - 0:16:51

Ugh... spent almost three hours tonight diagnosing/fixing my pedals.

Yesterday the brake started dragging a bit on my ClubSports. I took it apart to find that the little metal dowel at the base of the brake pedal had not been fully through the slot for some time, and had worn down the dowel and the hole that it goes through.

I fixed it up (for the most part) and re-lubed everything and the brake was still dragging, but even worse, now I was getting completely bogus brake inputs.

I took it apart again and found that I had torn the insulation around the wires going to the load cell sensor, so I assume the wires are touching each other and giving horribly wrong signals. Shit....

I can order order a new load cell from Fanatec ($15 + $17 shipping), but before I do I'm going to see if I can get one of the guys at work who knows how to souder to fix it.

So, the ClubSports are broken for the time being, might as well dust off the old G25 pedals and use them (with the Fanatec/g25 pedal adapter) for the time being. Well, the whole reason I got new pedals was because the g25 pedals were dragging (both brake and gas).

I plugged them in, saw that only the gas was dragging. I know how to fix that by filing down the little plastic thingy, so I took them apart and did that.

I also noticed that the gas pedal was not registering full throttle with the pedal fully depressed. That's a harder thing to fix. I tried various things, but in the end I used a hammer on the bottom of the pedal bracket to allow it to travel just a bit further (I would've filed/grinded it down if I had the appropriate tools, but I don't). That more or less worked and now I get what looks like 99.5% throttle... close enough I guess.

So now I'm back up and running, but switching back to a potentiometer brake after using a load cell brake for so long is proving a bit difficult.

If you actually read all of that, I'm sorry for wasting your time. I just felt the need to chronicle how I wasted the last three hours of my life.

Bed time.

**HWKII** on Thu 8 Mar - 0:20:22

LOL Rack, that sucks. On the other hand, the 0.5% throttle travel you don't get means more human-like times, which is good news for anyone racing you! Wink

Good luck getting those pedals sorted, would suck to have to buy a new load cell, isn't that thing like less than a year old?

**RackAttack** on Thu 8 Mar - 10:07:00

Moral of the story is, if you're taking your ClubSport pedals apart, detach the load cell sensor wire first!

**Forgetful** on Thu 8 Mar - 10:10:14

Would you happen to be able to snap a couple of pics so I know what to watch for?

**RackAttack** on Thu 8 Mar - 10:35:31

Forgetful wrote:Would you happen to be able to snap a couple of pics so I know what to watch for?

Here's the load cell unit removed from the black rectangle thing. It's held in with two set screws, one on each side. Just loosen one of those and it slides right out (but you shouldn't ever need to).

The wire comes out the top and connects with a three pin clip to the circuit board that's under the brake tuning knob. You just need to disconnect that before you take things apart. Otherwise, when you flip it over (as Thomas does in the video) and rotate the bar back that the black rectangle thing pivots on, the first thing that stops it from rotating more is that wire if it's still connected.

Here's what happens if you don't. You can see the exposed wires.

**Forgetful** on Thu 8 Mar - 10:43:28

I meant pics of the dowel, but that's handy too.

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