WEBVTT 00:00:00.300 --> 00:00:05.080 - Wow. The feedback is crazy. Wow. I just want to keep playing it. 00:00:05.080 --> 00:00:09.445 Can you see the smile on my face? (Grunts) 00:00:09.445 --> 00:00:14.330 (Slams) Here I have some fantastic new kit from Fanatec. 00:00:14.330 --> 00:00:17.900 This is the CSL DD a direct drive wheel from Fanatec 00:00:17.900 --> 00:00:24.999 that promises to deliver the performance of a $1000, $2000 or $3000 racing wheel for like $400, 00:00:27.687 --> 00:00:31.320 - $500.(Chuckle) That's insane. Let's check it out. 00:00:31.320 --> 00:00:36.260 Every driver has their limit. Yeah, that's definitely for sure. (Chuckle) 00:00:36.260 --> 00:00:40.217 My limit is further than others. Oh, this is like a flex thing here. 00:00:40.217 --> 00:00:43.310 - (Guest Speaking) - Go away, Riley. 00:00:43.310 --> 00:00:46.320 Okay. We got the manual in the box. Oh, it's a quick, quick guide. 00:00:46.320 --> 00:00:50.048 Presumably to Mount the thing and plug the stuff in. 00:00:50.048 --> 00:00:53.843 We don't need that. We get some stickers. Oh, this is so cute. Look at this, 00:00:53.843 --> 00:00:56.270 Andy, do you want a sticker here give me your forehead. 00:00:59.040 --> 00:01:03.575 Thanks, Andy. Woah, look at this. This is actually really, really smart. They put holes in the cardboard. 00:01:03.575 --> 00:01:07.480 Pretty Cool - (Guest Speaking) Yeah. 00:01:07.480 --> 00:01:11.950 It's probably Stuff in the box, I reckon. I think these are for, if you have a racing wheel stand, 00:01:11.950 --> 00:01:15.380 you would slide these into like the grooves in this metal 00:01:15.380 --> 00:01:19.540 housing and then thread the bolts into there. So we won't Need those. 00:01:19.540 --> 00:01:22.755 We have, oh, look at that type C. 00:01:22.755 --> 00:01:27.090 - [Guest] Yaay. Wow. Throw the box Away. (Chuckle) 00:01:27.090 --> 00:01:29.173 This thing is chunky. Oh. 00:01:31.005 --> 00:01:35.113 (Grunts) Wow. It's really heavy. (Grunts) 00:01:35.113 --> 00:01:39.107 It's really heavy. Ohh, Oh My Gosh, Wow. 00:01:41.500 --> 00:01:44.926 Oh, they didn't put holes on the other side. That's it? That's all. That's all that's in the box. 00:01:44.926 --> 00:01:49.460 This Is impressive. Oh. (Grunts) 00:01:49.460 --> 00:01:54.770 This This, Totally makes sense. I mean, what you have is a giant aluminum housing here 00:01:54.770 --> 00:01:58.450 and then inside the motor in here is going to be basically, 00:01:58.450 --> 00:02:03.120 just a ton of copper. So the fact that this is really heavy, it makes sense. 00:02:03.120 --> 00:02:05.120 Oh we got a Wow, that scale is terrible. 00:02:06.250 --> 00:02:09.257 Why would anybody want that? Ohh. 00:02:11.149 --> 00:02:12.399 11 pounds, Wow. 00:02:14.580 --> 00:02:18.276 It is. Like I said before, a really nice machine to aluminum housing. 00:02:18.276 --> 00:02:22.000 It looks like it sort of splits off in the back. You could probably take this apart. 00:02:22.000 --> 00:02:25.550 Should we take this apart? - No, really? Oh, they're just hacks. 00:02:25.550 --> 00:02:30.310 Oh, we're totally taking this apart, John. Oh, John oh we must, 00:02:30.310 --> 00:02:34.733 There's not really any moving parts. Like this shaft should just be held in the motor 00:02:34.733 --> 00:02:39.010 magnetically and the rest of it should just be like electronic and crap. So yeah. 00:02:39.010 --> 00:02:40.610 We're totally taking this apart. 00:02:42.260 --> 00:02:45.900 It's got some torque. Oh, this is plastic. 00:02:45.900 --> 00:02:47.573 Oh, interesting. 00:02:49.130 --> 00:02:55.313 Yeah. Okay. So the, the ends are plastic, but the main housing is definitely still aluminum. 00:02:57.350 --> 00:03:01.330 Oh my God. You ready Brandon? (suspenseful music) 00:03:01.330 --> 00:03:06.200 Oh, no. He can't see anything. Damnit. 00:03:06.200 --> 00:03:11.211 It's all hidden. Oh. - [Guest] You can't go farther than that - No. I can't, But look at that machining. 00:03:11.211 --> 00:03:15.670 Oh, so nice. Is this the type of aluminum extrusion? 00:03:15.670 --> 00:03:19.840 Somebody in the comments? Let me know. Anyways. So if we could see inside, we're going to, 00:03:19.840 --> 00:03:23.478 we're going to show you some screenshots from their website. You would see the star of this show, 00:03:23.478 --> 00:03:27.400 which is the custom built direct drive motor. They made specifically for this unit. 00:03:27.400 --> 00:03:30.650 Now, if you don't know anything about steering wheels, there's a couple of different types. 00:03:30.650 --> 00:03:34.170 You can either get a direct drive. You can get a belt driven or you can get a gear-driven. 00:03:34.170 --> 00:03:37.290 And now typically for budget wheels, 00:03:37.290 --> 00:03:40.770 which I mean can be anywhere from like a hundred to $500, 00:03:40.770 --> 00:03:44.120 which is sort of your budget to mid-range category. 00:03:44.120 --> 00:03:47.570 You're going to see a lot of belt-driven and gear-driven. 00:03:47.570 --> 00:03:51.340 And basically what those have is a, a much smaller motor, which will then use gearing 00:03:51.340 --> 00:03:56.160 or a belts ratio to increase the torque. But on a direct drive, you have none of that belt. 00:03:56.160 --> 00:04:01.530 And none of that gear, that means there's going to be a lot less play and you're gonna get way more accurate feedback. 00:04:01.530 --> 00:04:04.998 And in the case of this unit, we're also gonna get a lot more powerful feedback. 00:04:04.998 --> 00:04:12.817 Now, the wheel I usually use at home Is a thrust master T-300 I'm not like a crazy expensive baller SIM racer. 00:04:13.630 --> 00:04:18.170 Umm, and that guy, I think outputs around 3.9 Newton meters of torque. 00:04:18.170 --> 00:04:21.660 Whereas this unit with the optional boost pack, 00:04:21.660 --> 00:04:25.870 will do eight Newton meters. Which is, which is double. 00:04:25.870 --> 00:04:30.350 That's uhh. That's a lot of torque. Okay. So a bit of a correction here. Uhh. 00:04:30.350 --> 00:04:36.740 It turns out this is just the regular power supply. Umm. It's a 90 watt unit. And then the boost pack is 180 Watts. 00:04:36.740 --> 00:04:40.610 We don't have that one, unfortunately, but we will at least get to 00:04:40.610 --> 00:04:44.918 experience it in 5 newton meter mode Okay, Let's put this thing back together though. 00:04:44.918 --> 00:04:47.960 - (Guest speaks) I don't know if you can read this 00:04:47.960 --> 00:04:52.450 as part of our standard QC process. This wheelbase has passed a durability test, 00:04:52.450 --> 00:04:57.910 which causes slight marks on the quick release surface this product, whereas this marks with the marks with pride. 00:04:57.910 --> 00:05:03.150 Oh, that's cute. Before connecting the wheelbase to your PC, please install the latest Fanatec driver, 00:05:03.150 --> 00:05:07.713 then update the wheelbase firmware. Okay. We can do that. Let's try mounting it to the desk first. 00:05:10.430 --> 00:05:15.793 Oh, the sticker is terrible. Oh No, Fanatec why? 00:05:17.040 --> 00:05:19.693 The goo is coming off. It's just a lot of paper. 00:05:21.320 --> 00:05:26.620 You got a knife? I'll use this plug. See how this Goes. Cool that worked. 00:05:26.620 --> 00:05:32.180 All right. This worked I'm good. So I think I need to affix this before I can quick release, 00:05:32.180 --> 00:05:35.410 but maybe not. I mean, does this have a quick release on it right now. 00:05:35.410 --> 00:05:40.160 I think I'll read the manual. It's probably a safe bet. 00:05:40.160 --> 00:05:45.263 Cool. This is useless. Says nothing about the steering wheel. Nice. Sweet. 00:05:46.600 --> 00:05:49.383 You Know, it's always weird to unbox a steering wheel. 00:05:50.560 --> 00:05:55.736 You're like, this should be in a car. (Funny Noise) 00:05:55.736 --> 00:06:00.300 - [Brandon] It has plastic handles. - It Does have flappy paddles. They feel like garbage, 00:06:00.300 --> 00:06:05.300 but this guy goes on here and then it clips onto this. 00:06:05.420 --> 00:06:09.384 I'm pretty sure. Ooh. (Sratching Noise) 00:06:11.260 --> 00:06:13.403 Remove with care. Oh, Oh yeah. 00:06:14.490 --> 00:06:19.220 This one's plastic. Like it's, it's a, it's a plastic-y material 00:06:19.220 --> 00:06:22.240 that like doesn't rip. 00:06:22.240 --> 00:06:27.240 How do I, oops. Oh, oh. Oh, I see. 00:06:27.410 --> 00:06:30.330 Cool, that's like the, uh the electrical connectors 00:06:31.180 --> 00:06:32.680 for like the buttons and stuff 00:06:36.092 --> 00:06:38.573 Its backwards, there we go, oh nice. 00:06:40.130 --> 00:06:43.203 Wow. This is a lot of, there's a lot of set-up fantasy. 00:06:44.480 --> 00:06:49.250 I like that they use Loctite, this is nice. All right, I'm done. Cool. All right. 00:06:49.250 --> 00:06:51.573 So we've got our quick release hub, attached. 00:06:53.990 --> 00:06:58.897 Oh There we go. Wow. Nice. 00:06:58.897 --> 00:07:01.123 (sigh) Now just one more thing to do. 00:07:02.020 --> 00:07:06.298 It is a substantial amount of stuff to do. (Guest Speaks) 00:07:06.298 --> 00:07:10.244 Like, I am not denying in any way, shape, Or form that this is a quick set up process. 00:07:10.244 --> 00:07:12.411 (Chuckle) 00:07:13.895 --> 00:07:17.630 Well it depends how much you play 1 category of game 00:07:17.630 --> 00:07:22.490 because I, it is so much better when you want to play a racing game. 00:07:22.490 --> 00:07:26.520 So I think that has to go in there. 00:07:26.520 --> 00:07:30.660 This guy definitely goes into here and this will be 00:07:30.660 --> 00:07:33.990 under the table? And then I think we get this guy 00:07:35.040 --> 00:07:38.200 to go on there for extra torque. It's like the it's the boost kit, 00:07:38.200 --> 00:07:43.200 but for this handle, and then, no... 00:07:44.830 --> 00:07:45.663 there we go. 00:07:48.334 --> 00:07:50.000 (Grunts) Oh it's so heavy 00:07:53.580 --> 00:07:54.540 LTT Store.com 00:07:57.176 --> 00:08:01.140 (Chuckles) That is janked. I mean, I can tighten it a lot more. 00:08:01.140 --> 00:08:04.270 I'm worried this Ikea table is going to like crush itself 00:08:04.270 --> 00:08:08.823 or break some of this plastic. Okay. Yeah. That's, that's totally fine. 00:08:11.020 --> 00:08:15.150 Yes. There's pedals. Oh we haven't even done that yet. (Honking Noise) 00:08:15.150 --> 00:08:17.933 Please tell me the pedals don't have to be put together. 00:08:20.600 --> 00:08:21.433 Whoa. 00:08:25.819 --> 00:08:28.863 That's got a little Spongy. See that little sponge in there. 00:08:30.770 --> 00:08:33.880 I get it. The reason there are so many pieces 00:08:33.880 --> 00:08:39.130 is so you can customize it. If I put it like this, though, is it going to wobble? 00:08:39.130 --> 00:08:42.140 Like maybe I just have to move them over and ignore the fact 00:08:42.140 --> 00:08:47.040 that we have a clutch pedal. I actually, I have experienced the reason 00:08:47.040 --> 00:08:50.360 that you're not supposed to drive with flip-flops and I go to press the brake as I'm going 00:08:50.360 --> 00:08:54.220 around the corner, like in the parking garage and my foot slipped off. 00:08:54.220 --> 00:08:57.520 And then my flip- flop got stuck behind the pedal, so I couldn't press it. 00:08:57.520 --> 00:09:00.320 And I ended up like scraping my bumper against the wall. 00:09:01.340 --> 00:09:05.193 Okay. We got gas. We have brake, 00:09:06.190 --> 00:09:10.490 squishy brake. 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And we actually had to update the firmware on both. 00:09:38.480 --> 00:09:43.510 The steering wheel itself which was just kind of crazy and the motor and we've loaded up a Assetto Corsa, 00:09:43.510 --> 00:09:48.530 which is usually my preferred game of choice. It's got presets, but they never really work. 00:09:48.530 --> 00:09:53.334 So we kind of have to set this up manually there's our steering axis, brake, brake. Press that. 00:09:53.334 --> 00:09:56.810 That needs to be inverted Specifically. I wanted to import the car 00:09:56.810 --> 00:10:00.940 that I own right now, which is an E60 M5 And we're going to do it on the Nordschleife 00:10:00.940 --> 00:10:04.700 and see how that goes. (Chuckles) 00:10:05.830 --> 00:10:11.510 Oh yeah. Oh wow. The force feedback is, oh, 00:10:11.510 --> 00:10:15.777 this almost feels like a real car. Oh that, oh, oh. 00:10:16.652 --> 00:10:22.580 Oh man. The pedals are too close together. The force feedback is incredible. 00:10:22.580 --> 00:10:26.883 And this is not even with the boost kit. That's incred..this..that's crazy. 00:10:27.750 --> 00:10:30.803 What is that number? Is that miles per hour? 00:10:33.160 --> 00:10:36.830 Oh, I'm going to go on the dirt. I'm going in the dirt. I'm going to the dirt. 00:10:37.930 --> 00:10:40.393 Wow. The feedback is crazy. 00:10:41.880 --> 00:10:46.737 Oh boy, I'm going way too fast oh, come on baby. Oh. 00:10:51.742 --> 00:10:57.500 Oh, Oh man. - Whoa, the steering is not. You see what that's not right. 00:10:57.500 --> 00:11:01.090 I think I have some @#!% misconfigured here. There's so much feedback in this wheel. 00:11:01.090 --> 00:11:04.863 It's shaking the whole desk. Uhh these pedals. Look at this. 00:11:07.200 --> 00:11:11.793 There we go. That's proper. Now I have no excuses for sucking. 00:11:15.760 --> 00:11:18.840 Oh boy, (laughter) 00:11:18.840 --> 00:11:21.640 I should have picked an easier car. This thing's a boat. 00:11:23.182 --> 00:11:28.182 Oh, oh, (laughter) come on. Oh man. 00:11:31.690 --> 00:11:35.600 I definitely started to get the hang of it a little bit more there, but wow. 00:11:35.600 --> 00:11:40.100 That's (chuckle), I've never actually played on a direct drive wheel and the, 00:11:40.100 --> 00:11:43.720 the sharpness and the aggressiveness of the feedback is, 00:11:43.720 --> 00:11:48.340 is unlike anything I've played before. Like this is so much better. 00:11:48.340 --> 00:11:53.550 And when you consider the marginal increase over like a high-end belt-driven wheel, uh high-end 00:11:53.550 --> 00:11:58.950 a good belt driven wheel. Like a thrust master T-300. This is so much better. 00:11:58.950 --> 00:12:03.140 And we don't even have the boost pack. Holy Crap. 00:12:03.140 --> 00:12:07.060 Wow. I just want to keep playing it. Can you see the smile on my face? 00:12:07.920 --> 00:12:11.610 Oh my God. The pedals feel good. It's just. They're not mounted to anything. 00:12:11.610 --> 00:12:14.810 So, they're kind of flopping around everywhere. 00:12:14.810 --> 00:12:19.912 I'm impressed. Good job. Fanatec. I am I'm genuinely impressed. 00:12:19.912 --> 00:12:21.812 Should we get somebody else to try it? 00:12:23.767 --> 00:12:27.950 (chuckle) Andy's a drift guy. - Oh Wow - Forgot. It's 500 horsepower. 00:12:27.950 --> 00:12:33.124 - Oh My God. This is steering wheel feels so good. - (Laughter) 00:12:33.124 --> 00:12:36.520 Ohhhh, (Laughter) - And there's deer. 00:12:38.020 --> 00:12:42.780 This car sucks. (Laughter) - Do you want a different car really quick? 00:12:42.780 --> 00:12:47.255 I'll give you a Porsche or something. You are, you are just pegging it at red line. 00:12:47.255 --> 00:12:49.073 Whoa, this car's fast. 00:12:50.650 --> 00:12:53.810 Does it feel like it handles better? - Oh yeah, - Definitely a little. 00:12:53.810 --> 00:12:56.980 Oh, oh you're going a little fast. 00:12:56.980 --> 00:13:00.376 But it recovers so easily. Wow. - Yeah So compared to like the Logitech wheel 00:13:00.376 --> 00:13:04.780 you were using before, What do you think? - This is like a hundred percent improvement. 00:13:04.780 --> 00:13:08.449 This feels like driving a real car. - I want your you're out of 10. 00:13:08.449 --> 00:13:12.280 Have you, have you tried anything better than this? - No, no, no. 00:13:12.280 --> 00:13:17.997 I give you like 9.5 but the 0.5 is because it doesn't really have a clutch. 00:13:17.997 --> 00:13:21.700 - Well, we can add a clutch - But yeah. So this setup 9.5 00:13:21.700 --> 00:13:25.050 - Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. All right. Well there you have it. 00:13:25.050 --> 00:13:29.450 Clearly, this is a fantastic product. I mean, I still have (exploit) grin on my face 00:13:29.450 --> 00:13:34.335 and I'm not even driving. I don't think that speaks for it enough. 00:13:34.335 --> 00:13:37.902 So maybe check out my ShortCircuit that I did on the flight SIM set up, which was pretty fun. 00:13:37.902 --> 00:13:41.191 I think Andy, did you fly in that? - Yeah, yeah, yeah I did. - Yeah he flew in that. We didn't get. 00:13:41.191 --> 00:13:44.462 - Off camera We didn't get to the office, he wasn't in the video. - I did. 00:13:44.462 --> 00:13:48.330 - Oh you did Like off camera though. - It wasn't in the video. It doesn't matter. Didn't happen. 00:13:48.330 --> 00:13:52.423 Get subscribed and uhh, maybe uhh, leave a like if you liked this video.