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Fanatec Porsche 911 Racing Wheel
Main Parts: Pedals
The Porsche 911 Turbo Wheel system has some of the most attractive and highly functional pedals I have ever used. This is one of the best features of the entire system. The pedals in this system are all plastic and coated in a Chrome/Black look which is very attractive. The most notable feature of the pedals is that each individual pedal (left to right the clutch pedal, the brake pedal and the "Go Go Go" fuel pedal) all feature different force requirements to provide the user the extra sensory feature missing from so very many wheel/pedal combos. The brake pedal feels and functions like a sports cars fuel pedal, the clutch pedal feels like a clutch pedal in that it requires more force to depress it than the fuel pedal. The brake pedal requires the most force to depress of the three pedals and actually feels like a real brake pedal. These built-in forces allow the user to drive his favorite simulation as if it were a real vehicle, with the same feel one would expect on the road, providing also the ability to not lock-up the brakes by merely resting the weight of your foot on the brake pedal, as is common with other racing wheel systems.
The backside of fuel pedal smartly has a rubber compression button so that the user can feel a smooth cushion at the end of travel when the pedal is fully depressed. The pedals also have force-feedback motors in the housing, to provide sensory feedback to the user when on the throttle in any driving sim. When depressing the fuel pedal in rfactor, the pedal vibrates and provides sensory feedback of the engine rev's back to the user... this setting can be fully fine-tuned to your liking and can even be turned off should you dislike it.
On the right side of the brake pedal housing, there is a connector for the optional cable that you can use if you wish to power your pedals through the steering wheel base station and not wirelessly. This arrangement works as other wheel systems work in that you run power from the outlet using the provided power brick to your steering wheel system, which then via the cord from the wheel to the pedals in-turn powers the pedals. A very nice aspect of the Porsche 911 Turbo Wheel is that you can also run your pedals wirelessly, allowing the user to choose to run it anywhere they want without being encumbered by wires or location. This is clearly a fantastic concept and can be very useful for those wanting to use it with a Playstation console system, or even for the many PC users that now run their favorite racing sims in the comfort of their living room on their big screen TV. To do this, you flip the pedals upside down, revealing the battery compartment on the underside for the four AA batteries which Fanatec even provides in the kit! It's that easy. When we tried this option, the functionality of the pedals was not impaired the least bit and the pedals worked very well.
The pedals underside contains 9 rubber vibration mount pads and for positive hold on hard floors. The underside also contains 3 velcro hook strips for positive traction on carpets. If you also look very closely at the underside, you will find 6 metal brass threaded inserts which are intended to be used to "hard mount" the pedal assembly base to the provided black steel mounting plate (mentioned earlier in the review) and with the 6 screws provided to your racing pit for a more permanent, heavier and sturdy solution.
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