I picked this “Sega Nascar” cabinet as an “empty” cabinet which turned out to only be really missing the main PCB, monitor and some random other board. I decided to turn this into a custom racing cabinet planning on putting a ps3 in the bottom now that’s simple but the hard part is the steering wheel and pedals. the pedals would be easy enough just simple pots but the steering wheel, on the other hand, is much more difficult. In this cabinet, the force feedback motor is an ac motor. a few years ago someone was selling these “l2m2′ boards to interface these with an old Logitech driving force steering wheel however they have become basically impossible to find plus my steering wheel was missing the pot, the pot holder and the gear so I was planning on using my old Logitech driving force pro wheel and then removing the wheel and attaching the base of the Logitech wheel and attaching that to the back of the arcade wheel however I was unsure if the Logitech wheel would be able to move the heavy arcade steering wheel and I’m still pretty sure if you did notice the force feedback it wouldn’t be any good. a few days later someone listed a fanatec gt3 rs v2 steering wheel, fanatec CSR pedals, 6-speed shifter, a collective minds drive hub (makes this wheel work with ps4 and Xbox one) and a ps3 slim for only $70! so after getting that stuff and testing it out, I decided to just go full custom and mount that wheel in the cabinet. so after stripping out all the boards and power transformers out of the cabinet, I found those took a lot of weight out of the cabinet and I may need to add some locking wheels since the original ones don’t lock. some people I’ve seen cut the original dash to fit their new wheel in but I didn’t want to chop mine up because it was actually in pretty good shape so I decided to go the full custom route and made a custom dash. for sound, I decided to use the original speakers, two in the chair and two up by the monitor to power them I just used an old amp I had laying around so I put that in the bottom with the ps3. the next thing I ran into is that the bottom got pretty toasty with the ps3 and amp in a small enclosed area and I found while the original 120vac fans moved a lot of air they were loud so I decided to put a temp controller on the dash so it shows the temp of the bottom part on the dash and if it gets too hot it turns on the 120vac fans till it cools back down which is pretty quick. the pedals were bigger than the original so I had to make a custom board to make it so I had a big enough flat spot for the pedals which I bolted down so they will not go anywhere. now to mount the gear shift I decided I wanted to make it slightly more realistic by mounting the gear shift further down closer to where it would be in a real car and to do that I just used some 2×3 boards bolted to the side of the cabinet then built a box around that out of some much thinner boards to clean it up a lot and give it a more finished feel. for the monitor, I used a cheap one from Facebook marketplace and after rebuilding the power supply I got that bolted in the cabinet and made the monitor surround out of the same thin board I used for the gear shift surround. sadly my cabinet didn’t come with a back panel so I had to custom make one out of metal but that wasn’t too bad but now the cabinet is complete and I’ve made it so you can plug in a laptop and play games like Daytona USA and Sega rally (with force feedback) with a sega model 2 emulator or any other pc driving/racing game and with that drive hub I could put a ps4 or Xbox one in the bottom of the cabinet as well. so here is the finished product in all its glory.