This is Doug's brand new racing sim. We spared no expense to allow Doug to take full advantage of a Lamborghini Cosworth without risking his real one getting impounded. And although this setup is relatively cheap for a Lambo, with an $118,000 price tag, this virtual car

eclipses the cost of many used cars. There's only one small problem: it isn't currently together, and I need to leave for the airport in 5 hours. Well, we better get cracking folks, and build this as fast as we possibly can. Thanks to

some help from our sponsor Origin PC, who were kind enough to not just sponsor this video but also send over an absolute top-of-the-line PC that's even painted to resemble Doug's personal Lambo. You can check that out at the link below. Now, this isn't going to be the

most over-the-top racing sim we've ever put together. The one we have upstairs probably has a few more features, but in talking to Doug's team, it became clear that they weren't necessarily looking for the ultimate racing sim. They were looking for a really good racing sim

that actually works every time you sit down at it. That means that things like a full motion rig, a multi-monitor setup, and VR are out of the question. That also means we needed a little bit of help. We weren't aware we needed help, but when we

reached out to Advanced Sim Racing, a sim racing builder in Quebec, their co-owner Mark Andre looked at our parts list and he said, "Eh, not bad, but it would be way better if you just let us select all the best parts." So that's exactly what

happened starting with this ASR Pro cockpit with a custom paint job. It's made of extruded aluminum, so it's super strong, easy to adjust, and most importantly, easily expandable with accessories like this heavy-duty TV stand, a PC stand, a keyboard tray, anything you

want. As cool as triple monitor setups might be, they're a bit of a pain in the butt to configure, especially in your various games. So we went with the Predator z57. Have you ever seen one of these in person? No. The resolution of it is 8K

horizontally by half of that vertically, so you're basically running at half of 8K. And this is about the wildest curved monitor we have ever seen. Wow! There we go. Not bad, right? Wow, it really does seem like one giant windshield. Yeah, the only drawback is this only runs at

120 Hz. I'm very sorry. All I know is that it has a Lamborghini on it. Fair enough. Everything's got a Lamborghini on it. Let's take a look at this rig that Origin sent over, even though we are targeting a mere 120 frames per second

because of the resolution and the importance of maximum visual fidelity in sim racing, Origin spared no expense creating Doug's PC. We're talking a Ryzen 9 9950X processor with 16 cores and a 5.7 GHz max turbo, a Corsair H150i LCD

liquid CPU cooler and Asus ROG Crosshair X670 Hero motherboard, 64 gigs of Corsair Dominator Platinum DDR5 memory, an Nvidia RTX 4090, 4 terabytes of NVMe storage, and a Corsair RM 1200X shift power supply.

They've got a couple limited-time offers running right now. We'll have those linked in the video description, but the most important thing is not limited time, and that is that their warranty includes free lifetime phone service. Which don't take this the wrong way, but you seem

like you might need yeah definitely. Car guy, tech guy. I needed to be coached on how to pronounce Lamborghini. It's *Koonach* uh *Koonach* *Koonach*. Sorry, we all got our specialties. So with that in mind, the training wheels come off now, and you are

going to put together the rest of the car PC. The good news is most of this should be pretty self-explanatory, like this steering wheel, exactly. This is your wheel base, the Moza Racing R21. It has 21 Newton-meters of peak torque. You would know

torque. I got torque. Yeah, so that basically means that it could pretty much break your wrist if you were stupid enough to put your hands in it and the force feedback went wild. Wow, okay, that's what I'm looking for for one of these.

That 21 Newton-meters of torque, that's a maximum, and in most cases, you wouldn't experience more than about 10 in an actual race car, unless you crash, of course. So you're probably going to want to adjust that down for, for daily use. Being direct drive, though, it means that

it's going to be like super responsive and realistic feeling, or at least that's the theory. I have you're going to be the judge of that for me. Cool, I'm excited to find out. I'm legitimately curious to find out how close we're going to get.

the actual racing experience so I'm especially cuz we have the real steering wheel oh no way they didn't tell me they got this this is the OG wheel from the actual car and then we've just got a mossa adapter plate on it yeah we CNC

machined the little adapter oh my God that is so cool it's going to feel very real okay but we're not ready to do the steering wheel yet there we go you know it's funny I was going to volunteer to be the one to screw it in and then I

realized like you probably have more experience working on low rigs than I do so I guess you get to screw it in right and hopefully I'll get to do some of the cabling too yeah oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah no don't worry I'll save some for

you here we go get a jack no no no we don't need a jack we're good we're good I got it I got it don't even worry don't even worry I promise I have very rarely dropped heavy things on other YouTubers' faces

you promise you're not going to kill me I mean it probably wouldn't kill them right no this really is the perfect intersection of tech and cars right like the experience of working on it right right that is true not that different it's not now tell me something they

seemed really proud of this seat for some reason is what's the story behind the seat this is a very close approximation of a real Lamborghini seat from this era the same look the same stitching the same sort of feel I think we found it on eBay it was probably out

of a car that crashed and killed somebody no I'm kidding probably just caught on fire but the seat's good yeah the seat was really hard to get into this if you look we had to make a completely custom plate on the bottom because these are

like fiberglass right into the car it was awful that's super cool great work Justin thank you I realized we didn't even talk about the pedals have a feel the brake should be pretty cool there's a load cell in it so it's supposed to feel like it feels breaky yeah exactly

and then the clutch is three-stage so it's supposed to kind of mimic the feel of real clutch engagement yeah it does okay impressive good if he says it's good then I'm good um also the travel is completely adjustable so whether you've put something aftermarket in your car or

whether something is worn or whatever else you can kind of adjust everything make it actually feel correct yeah got it and really that's what this rig is all about with the authentic seat with the paint job with the adjustability we want to get this as close to keeping you

safe so you don't feel like you need to get in the real one all the time you know as possible right good I appreciate that we're just looking up for your audience thank you so much yeah we've already spoiled the genuine Kosh wheel

so obviously we're going to be giving Doug that but do you want to talk through the other two wheels that we're going to be equipping him with we've got this F1 style wheel here it has clutches in the back really really nice dual

shifting clutch CL stuff is that real carbon fiber yeah forged carbon fiber here also more of like a rally GT car style one this is legit look at all these buttons what could all these things possibly do I assumed you would tell me well I I've never seen a button

that says box on a steering wheel before whip whip whip wiper okay thanks I don't know it just says WIP I assumed it didn't mean work in progress so these are all programmable you can map them to whatever you want some of them will be

actual car things while some of them will be like advance to next race or whatever else no okay that's fun but you haven't even touched this one yet oo real Nappa leather ooh the Box button is back and whip wow this is legit too and

forged carbon it seems so much better than what you get in a normal car I know right and certainly better than what you get in the Countach speaking of yes we spoiled this earlier but I think now is a perfectly good time to show you how to

swap out your wheels so go ahead and take this okay put it on there easy and then when this is powered it'll be locked but I'll just hold it for you now go ahead and twist yeah there we go there we go now it's engaged yep by the

way uh you probably noticed there's a bit of a gaping hole in our planning just kidding the plan is perfect Joel's telling the 3D printing nerd he's sending over a custom centerpiece for it that is going to look it's getting printed on a MakerBot 3D printer

that does inkjet stuff oh that's that one the multicolor one yeah it looks insane and then it really will look like the original kach oh it will will hey we got power on on the display now yeah it's a little far away for a typical

windshield but don't worry we're going to get that in closer for now we want to install your butt kicker oh I can't wait okay turn around no no I'm kidding that's an actual thing I'm kidding it's an actual thing these are lots of fun now you

specifically asked us to not give you a full motion sim but we still wanted it to feel like you're in a car unlike a full motion rig which is going to take ages to set up and get working the butt kicker just uses your in-game audio and

basically is kind of a subwoofer that is attached to your seat right and it is literally called the butt kicker yeah that seems right so where do I where does it go in your seat no no no I okay well here we we'll go over there one sec

this is a situation where Doug's preferences may have accidentally made his rig a little bit better for his purposes a full motion sim can even slow you down in some situations because they aren't always super accurate compared to driving a real car so all this does is

kind of fill in the low end and improve immersion a little bit long after your actual subwoofer has given up we got four butt kickers yes my butt's really going to get kicked $1,400 worth of butt kicking did we really need four Alex we

asked them for one and then they were like what about we send you four we were like sure that's perfect four is better than one yeah until you wire them all oh question for you Alex is he expected to put this all back together once we ship

it to him I assume we're shipping it right we're going to ship it and I'm pretty sure but don't say 100% sure but I'm pretty sure that Advanced Sim Racing is going to send over some text to your office and set it all up for you I

already did it once do it again no problem yeah all right this is all me yeah never mind Mark Andre uh you don't need to do that service uh no no please Doug can do it please now Alex you said you felt very strongly about this particular choice do you explain why so

many Sim racing shifters just feel like there's a stick with a couple buttons this right here from BDH has an actual shifter linkage inside of it that runs through here and it's modeled off of a Ford Escort RS cause word no way

interesting and has super easy switching between sequential and H pattern and also using this knob right here you can really easily change how much force there is to move it it feels incredible you can switch between an actual manual pattern and a sequential and it features hall effect sensors for

an extra long life what are you hooking up now Alex oh just power for the wheel base oh that actually makes sense I was like that's a pretty big power adapter surely that can't be for yes it can like I said if you're not careful you can

actually break your wrist in this right right right I'm going to try to avoid that Remember the goal is safety If you just want to line up one of them for me Yeah it's lined up Which one uh this one here Okay yeah so play play around with

that Whoa now we're this feeling real This position actually seems pretty good Does this this moves right This can move up down uh yes Although you know in the real couch my knees are right up against the steering wheel so this feels right Oh okay We actually need to make it not

ergonomically friendly in order to mimic the actual car My turn to go upside down Okay yeah Where do you want it Do the other one do the one closer to you That one's perfect right now in there Oh yeah You better believe it I'm going to get you back in

the chair since we moved it around so much I'm so sorry All right let's see now Man getting in and out of this thing is a chore for you Hey is it as bad as the real one No the real one is much worse Cool We got to tighten up the shifting

though Oh there we go That's feeling Oh it's so hard That's that's right That is correct Almost unusable That's what we need While I tighten this up why don't you check out your handbrake Ooh handbrake Yeah No handbrake button for

this guy Wow so I can do drifts Oh yeah This thing 100 bucks very simple just bolt it on Should be fine And we have a couple different positions it can go in depending on where exactly you want it Okay perfect How's that feel Wonderful

like I can do some drifts that look awful I think this isn't even tight enough compared to the real car but I'm going to leave it there cuz it seems like that's all we need to do that's life let me tell you something

you drive this car about 20 minutes you're like well I'm good for the week I'm I'm all set thanks and that's how I want it to feel when I'm playing my sim too speaking of inconvenience are we really going to install 5.1 surround

Alex yeah why not because it's really inconvenient we can just like zip tie it on for the day ooh that's the right way to do it that's the Lamborghini way to do it I didn't even know anyone bothered to make high-end 5.1 surround setups for

PC anymore but here it is the SteelSeries Arena 9 there's your Center Channel yes the true V12 soundtrack comes through there we go that's not going anywhere I'm guessing that's not too far off to the fastening solutions in the K either that's right that's right

you've done a beautiful job oh oh oh no way oh yeah buddy I promise we're really close to actually drifting around a track but first we need to see if the butt kickers work do you want to go ahead and fire up some audio yeah let's

do [Music] it perfect four butt kickers might be a lot no it's great that's how loud this thing is going to vibrate itself apart just like a real car [Music] whoa oh my God the sound of the brakes

Is that supposed to be like that? There's light there, there's light. Well yeah, there's light in the world. No, I've never seen light before. How's it feel though? How's it feel? Amazing! It's so, it's so real, realistic. There's a lot of feedback

here, which is so cool. Oh yeah, there's a turd here. Forgot about that one. That's okay, that's okay. You didn't wreck it, you didn't wreck it. And if you did, hey, it's a digital wreck. Yeah, although the butt kickers would probably really kick my

butt. The wheel feedback is amazing. It really does feel like the real car. There's a lot of it's like heavy and oh, and it's, it wants to get squirrely all the time, which is true of the real car too. I have never driven my car like this

so I have no idea if this is how it behaves in this situation. Oh, can even hear the carburetor noises, it's quite amazing. Oh, oh, you're just fighting this car. It's so accurate. It's all you ever doing. My arms hurt. It's a

pain in the butt, but it was the right call, Alex, to have the speakers. Yeah, the speakers are great. Headphones is not going to feel right. Okay, we should have a look at your best lap and then I should see what I can do. This is going

to be my best lap for sure. H, don't jinx it. I haven't left the track yet. Oh, oh man, those brakes. What an accurate representation of this car. The feel of the steering wheel, especially whenever I get out of my actual one, my arms hurt

and they do right now that was the lap that was okay if you guys are enjoying this by the way over on Flow plane we're going to have Doug's take on ploofs modified Civic Mighty Car Mods had their way with it and

it's now okay this is a 2004 Honda Civic that's purple tell me about this car oh man oh wow she really does yeah she vibes this is real life I'm going to need this seat quite a bit further for oh uh-oh well we made it for

you can you not all oh it hits the shifter it hits the shifter well it'll be like driving my dad's car all right so the time to beat is 2 minutes yeah just about oh wow that is really heavy good Lord I don't even think that's as

heavy as the real car I couldn't shift the real car like I was shifting this one oh my God you made it look who God oh God oh God oh God oh God oh God oh I'm going to die just bent some valves in the engine no question about it oh my

God the how did you do four laps this is ridiculous oh boy oh God no oh no I forgot about the turn no it's okay it's okay it's okay all right the corkscrew is coming up you got to be really careful here uh-huh yeah I mean yeah oh

that's not going to do it that's God so what we're learning is never let me drive your car brakes brakes I am hitting the brakes okay brother brakes more brakes for God's sake this uh LED indicator on the front here for your RPM is actually really

Nice, it really helps. Yeah, oh, you're going way too fast. You're dead. Oh no no no, I'm not dead, I'm not dead, I'm not dead. I got this, I got this, I got this. We're going to get back on the track. Come on, let's go, let's go. I forget which

way this turn goes. I guess left brakes for God's sake. I mean, I was on the brakes before, was that not enough? Is it not, it's never enough. Breaking for you. Well, all right, all right. You were 16 and 1/2 seconds off the pace on that lap. You

want to do it again? Nope, that's stressful, dude. My forearm. I know it's hard. Is it unique to this car, cuz that is exactly how the Countach drives. It is that hard to use the steering wheel? You might have to drop the force

feedback for other cars. That really was like quite a real look at what this car drives like. I assume would drive like on a racetrack. It was felt just as buzzy. The shifter was just as hard, the steering was just as hard, the braking

was just as bad. Should we try a different car? Well, why don't we just try a more modern Lamborghini then? Sure, the Huracán Performante. You ready? Okay. Room. I can see why people like the older cars, though. This is almost like kind of sanitized. Yeah, it's easy. It's

too easy. How's the wheel feel? The wheel is still pretty harsh. More like the Countach, I think. Okay, so that's something that you might have to fine-tune as you go then. Yeah. Oh, we're only at half. Wow. For that K run, let's

say 30% probably how's that when way easier and more accurate to the car honestly this thing feels like a spaceship yeah in comparison compared to yeah even still I'm breaking too early I'm still trying to adjust from the old car now I feel less stupid about how I

was braking last time I know I just didn't know the car like that's how that's how you're braking now effectively you just give it a little okay slow down buddy right and then you're good to go this car is enormously more forgiving too that that car was

just a lot more sketchy okay let's see what we're going to get man I'm going to do a 144 so I'm 15 seconds faster than the fastest I did in the other car and that's after only a couple of laps that's two laps yeah now

tell me this for the price we paid for this rig which is about $188,000 Grand would we be better off just hopping onto cars and bids and just buying a Lamborghini uh you probably can't find a Lamborghini for $18,000 but

not even a really old one no but you can certainly find some used stuff for that money why don't you show us how much the car we're driving is worth this is probably the closest to Pro actually truthfully this is the closest

approximation to what we were driving although it is yellow uh what the hell I know that's why I was cringing when you slammed it into the wall 10 times it's a valuable vehicle and it is a little bit more than the $118,000 of this of this particular

driving situation, but it doesn't it doesn't let you crash into the wall, so in a sense the simulator is better. Let's change gears and let's find a car that costs the same as our sim. I found one, hold on, Alex. No, we don't have screen cap

running on that. Put that away, okay. That I'm pulling that up though. That's the, there you go. Oh dang it. This is what you want, $188,000. Okay, here we go. 2002 Bentley Arnage. Look at this thing. This has turbocharged V8, massive car. Mhm, and

this is the kind of car that you you own the factory, you drive this car. You know what I'm saying? Look at this, look at this quilted. Look at these quilted seats. Imagine the luxury you could have in your life for 18 G's. Is that a sheep

skin foot like, M, it's Lamb's wool. Lamb's wool. You ever have that? I wouldn't want to wear my shoes in there. You don't. You get in, you take off your shoes and it feels amazing on your bare feet. Who would take their shoes off to get in

their car? You want to rub it on your face? What, no, you're kidding me. No, it's not. You actually kidding me? I mean, you wouldn't do that. I would consider doing that. Look, you could have a trade table. You got a trade table in your tyon. No.

exactly. So what do you think of the setup? It's amazing. It's awesome. It's so cool. I actually think that the butt kickers are amazing. They really add a element of realism to this that's like special. I'm not going to lie, I was kind

of questioning it when we came into this but it works, it gives the car like a rumble that really is like accurate, yeah, and you don't feel you don't need like an entire motion rig in order to have that feeling, you can just kind of

vibrate it along with the frequency of the of the audio and it's like yeah, especially for the these cars that vibrate so much when you go over the rumble strips and the gravel, yeah, it like really does a good job of capturing that, it's pretty impressive

it's pretty cool actually yeah and you know what else is really cool is uh our sponsor for this video Origin PC, we didn't really talk about it much but notice that while we could hear the speakers and feel the butt kickers, we couldn't hear a bloody thing

from this darn near silent liquid cooled computer and it'll handle any game we want to run at absolute maximum settings even though he's running half of 8K resolution which by the way is twice as many pixels as 4K, right, unintuitively

right cuz it's half instead of a quarter, it's a lot of pixels but I think it's worth it for the immersion and it really does feel immersive, it's quite amazing, so now that this is set up, this is about as jump in and go as it gets

right and that's kind of the that's what I want to do, want to just when the whim strikes me I want to just jump in and go and now I can, if you guys enjoyed this video and you're into the intersection of technology and cars maybe you like

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The SAFE Way for Him to Drive his Lambo Fast - feat. Doug DeMuro

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Introduction of Doug's new racing simulator, built without expense.

The simulator is disassembled and needs to be assembled quickly.

Sponsorship from Origin PC, providing a high-end PC.

Focus on a functional and reliable sim, not necessarily the most feature-rich.

Collaboration with Advanced Sim Racing for parts selection and assembly.

ASR Pro cockpit with custom paint job and adjustability.

Predator z57 8K curved monitor (runs at half 8K resolution, 120Hz).

High-end Origin PC specifications (Ryzen 9 9950X, RTX 4090, etc.).

Assembly of the steering wheel (Moza Racing R21) and pedals.

Installation of a custom Lamborghini-style seat.

Discussion of different steering wheels: original Lamborghini wheel, F1 style, and rally GT style.

Demonstration of swapping steering wheels.

ButtKicker System and Shifter Installation

Explanation of the ButtKicker system and its benefits.

Installation and explanation of the BDH shifter with its features.

Adjusting seat position for optimal ergonomics.

Tightening the shifter and installing the handbrake.

Installation of the SteelSeries Arena 9 5.1 surround sound system.

Testing the ButtKicker system with audio.

Doug's initial reactions to the simulator's realism and feedback.

Doug's first lap and initial impressions of the driving experience.

Transition to driving a modified Honda Civic in the simulator.

Doug's experience driving the Honda Civic in the simulator, highlighting the challenges.

Switching to a Lamborghini Huracán Performante in the simulator and comparing the driving experience.

Comparison of lap times between the Countach and Huracán.

Discussion on the cost-effectiveness of the simulator versus buying a real Lamborghini.

Comparison of the simulator's cost to a similarly priced car (Bentley Arnage).

Doug's final thoughts on the simulator setup, particularly praising the ButtKicker system.

Highlighting the quiet operation of the Origin PC.

The SAFE Way for Him to Drive his Lambo Fast - feat. Doug DeMuro

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