So after many hours behind the wheel in my seat I decided that I did a very good job! Haha, yeah I'm gloating. Unlike some other make-shift setups that I have done this one was very comfortable and my back and legs don't hurt after getting up from a 4+ hour run.
My friend came over to test it out and before hand was skeptical of the placement of the shifter, that it would get in the way. After some adjustments (wheel hight/pull-in) he found out it worked really well. There is a lot less stress on the arms when using the H pattern shifter which is a benefit when doing competition racing. Unlike a "normal" setup where the shifter ball is higher than the center of the wheel, this one is much further down resulting in a relaxed arm position while shifting and adding quicker hand movement from shifter to wheel.
I was originally planning on attaching the seat to the box for those panic brakes (thought was that the box would slide away) but it turns out that the 70something pounds that is the box + controller stays put on carpet even under "stressful" conditions. This is a benefit to me since my cat likes to interact with the chairs soft fabric and I need to hide it :)
Some additions that were added are an extended top plank for a mouse just behind the shifter and side tray for keyboard for those PC simulators (LFS, iRacing....). I would imagine that if I wanted to extend this to a full-on simulator I could easily make a flight stick holder that would bolt right in, but that's to be seen in the future.
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