Misanthrop's spontaneous racing sim project (3DOF+Surge+2xTL)

I've spent a lot of the last few weeks driving and adjusting Simhub. I'm going to make an explanatory video in German at least in the future, I've already bought some decent material for this. I am always amazed at how well Simhub simply works.

After a lot of road vehicles I have now worked out the settings for autocross and offroad, this took some time, I will probably make a preset available here in the future.

At the weekend I added the handbrake and shifter and at the same time re-routed all the cables. I also printed cable clips and holders for all PSUs, so everything is now much tidier. I don't think much of cable channels and boxes, in my case they would only work to a limited extent and wouldn't look any better.




I have published a few files on Printables. These include holders for Simagic Hub and PSU, as well as E-Stop and an adjustable Vesamount.


The button box is currently being redesigned because I'm not satisfied with the look. Additionally, I will disassemble and re-grease my actuators this weekend and check for wear or damage in the process, so far I still have no failures since the first assembly, so I am very happy with my design and the chosen parameters when printing.

Changed a few things again. The mouse and keyboard now have their place and my “button box” is almost finished and has already taken its place. Buttonbox contains a Streamdeck XL, emergency stop for the Simagic Base and Thanos motion controller and the 3 buttons for the Thanos controller.



Really happy and there will be not many changes or updates in the future. Now it´s time to drive and enjoy.

Small Update, maybe for some people interesting which have an Surge Axis but don´t want to build an additional motor driven Belt tensioner.

The rubber bands will pull on the Belts when the Surge Axis is moving while braking. Works great and the strength can be changed. It was only an sideproject the last 6weeks to get motivation again and i wanted some experience how it is do drive with belttensioner. In my opinion it´s no gamechanger or anything else and don´t know if i will use it a long time

Have you tried VR? I could only imagine the immersion your rig would provide with it.

Tried it and sold it after few weeks again. The best immersion is useless if you can only use the VR glasses to a limited extent due to motion sickness. I often drive long distances or several races in a row, i.e. hours, so triplescreens are much better and more enjoyable. I didn´t like the resolution and performance, in my opinion the biggest immersion killer.

Also with motion you need a lightweight VR headset, like the Bigscreen Beyond 2, but I don't want to spend so much money only to find out that I still don't like it.


Many people are arguing that they have the best immersion with VR, especially from people which never tried both. But there is a reason why almost all e-sportler or top split driver are using triplescreen.