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Progress report: Dual force feedback wheels and flip out control panel.

Bizzar1

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Hello all, lurker here. Forum has been a great help and I thought I would share a little progress on my arcade. Picked up a massive cabinet for 30 bucks at a thrift store. It's a 1978 Atari Drag Race machine that after 5 minutes with a dmm...works. Yes it's super rare but who cares it's lame lol. Plus the cabinet was in very rough shape so not exactly a good candidate for a restoration. So I started to mod it a little. Dual Momo force feedback wheels, fairly stout pc for an arcade (phenom quad core @ 3.0ghz, 16gb ram, twin gtx260's sli and 3tb storage) with some serious sound!

I will use this as both a mame arcade, PC racing arcade and a jukebox. I have a dedicated 30a outlet to power this monster. The sound is powered by 2 car audio amplifiers (old school USAMPS for anyone who knows), 2 RE audio 8" subwoofers, 1 JL audio 10" subwoofer, 4 pioneer highs all running off a 100a audio authority 978 power supply. It flat out cranks! Sorry I haven't taken too many progress pictures but I have a couple short video clips to share. First up is a test run of the dual force feedback wheels with some silly slow lawnmowers lol. They work great! And then a test of the joystick panel that is hidden. Yes, cardboard templates are your friend! Testing the clearance of the joysticks and the angles of the fipout panel making sure they clear and have enough backspacing for the panel itself. I plan to add rev burners for the factory tachs. Trying to keep this as original-ish looking, beaten and battered looking as I can. I may someday return it to its original boring 1978 status....nah!! Comments and feedback welcome. Enjoy!

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