Heusinkveld Sprint Pedals Review

today we are going to do our

review

of the hussevold sim pedal

sprint

, well welcome back to another video, we will go over what I think of the build quality, the throttle adjustment in the clutch, the load cell adjustment, the brake, ease of isolation on the gear behind me what the gear is like how the

pedals

feel how I'm enjoying the software any issues I've encountered installing and using them and then I'll do a comparison to the cso elite load cell

pedals

I'm on currently using them, so if you have them right now and are considering an upgrade, which is the route I took, I hope this helps you and then We'll recap everything, so let's get into it now that we've gone through the unboxing experience.

Take a look at that video already. There should be a link at the top here if you haven't seen it yet. Otherwise, I'm going to Take this out of the box and let's start going through it, so here we go, we have the three pedals. The first thing we are going to talk about is the build quality. The first pedal I'll start with is the accelerator. so let's get rid of these and talk about the accelerator pedal now. I think what I'm going to say a lot through this video is that the build quality is what impresses me the most, I hope you can see it well.

There's the finish of the cut, I'm not assuming it's laser cut or water jet cut but the finish is great and then the beads on this are gorgeous, they give it a real race car look and it just reeks of quality . I think you are getting good value for money with every part of these. I'm not going to go into intense details. I'm just giving you an overview of everything, but everything seems well done. There's nothing I can see that I think is good. I haven't done that or that doesn't look very nice, everything seems very well put together on the clutch, it's obviously exactly the same as the accelerator, it really obviously has that movement, so it feels like a clutch pedal when you press it. cam, which is going to be a very nice, realistic feel on the rig I think, and again, yeah, very similar to the throttle, just a really nice finish all around and finally the brake pedal, very chunky kit , this pedal is well reinforced, the uprights, the load cell seem solid.

Very well put together, I'm also, as you can probably see, impressed and there's a real pressure there. Now let's talk a little about adjustability. We have an accelerator here, which is probably one of the most basic of the three pedals. The first. What really stands out to me is how much adjustability there is. I'm going to unscrew this and show you how much movement we can get, but if you look at that, you've got a pretty level base on that camera. look there and I'll adjust it and take a look at how much it changes the face of the pedal.

Now you can see if I put this here, the change that was made to the angle of the pedal face. We were somewhere leaning back and now we have arrived. all the way forward, so just getting this far there's a huge range of adjustment and it's exactly the same adjustment on the clutch and exactly the same adjustment on the brake, so you can really set each pedal individually exactly how you want. I like it, which is a nice touch. I'm going to put it back now. I'm running a time lapse, so there you have it. It's actually a pretty easy process.

You don't want to do it all the time, but you should. It's not necessary to do this all the time once you've set up your rig and have all the correct pedals, that should just be to give you a good idea of ​​the amount of adjustment available and each pedal has its own adjustment. kind of judgmental, but I'm just going to talk about the accelerator pedal because I don't want this

review

video to be too long, but to give you an idea of ​​the accelerator, we can adjust the pedal travel so that's how far the pedal is. .

As we move around we can obviously adjust the face so if you look at this we can undo the bolt turn the face and it will sit lower on the arm so you have that adjustment as well so on the throttle you can also adjust the preload , so that's the amount of force initially required to move the pedal and there is adjustment for the pedal force curve, so it's really impressive the amount of adjustment available and that's just the accelerator pedal. I'm not even going to clutch from the brake. They all have their own adjustments, we'll go into the brake in a little more detail, so probably the pedal with the most amount of adjustment and probably the most important pedal of the three, in my opinion, to keep you consistent in racing. simulation, it is the brake. pedal now there's quite a few things we can change here this has a preload if you want or I think they call it their two stage system so there's a dead zone that's designed to simulate the gap that you get in all the cars between the pad. brake and the brake disc there is always a little bit of movement in the pedal that you don't get, you don't actually get any braking or it's very minimal, but you just take it and it's adjustable in the smart app that detects as soon as this first spring starts to compress or you can say you need to have compressed that spring before it does and then it starts to pick up that input and that's something that can adjust the stiffness of that and obviously all the stiffness of the pedal so you can adjust the stiffness of the pedal. of the brake by adjusting the total length of the rubbers that are in the stack here it is worth noting that the stiffness determines how much the pedal will travel for a fixed amount of force the amount of force that you actually need is adjusted in the equipment in your intelligent control software.

The pedal comes with a total of six stiffness settings, a small rubber which is the hardest rubber, a medium, a large and an extra large and that's the default setting so here I go. The thing to do now is just see how the pedal stiffness adjusts, so my adjustment plan is to go from the default setting, which is the extra large rubber, and I'm going to go to the large rubber and there's a lot of grass on it. the manual explains what that's going to do to the pedal travel, so let's look at the steps related to that.

The first thing we need to do is remove the preload from the pedal, which is done by tightening this nut here so that there is a locking nut. The end I think is going to be this wrench, loosens the lock nut and that allows us to turn this big lock on the end, so once we've adjusted the preload we should be able to get this whole stack out. of rubbers and this is where I always get a little nervous because everything falls apart and I lose order, so here we go and then at the bottom here we have all the extras that come in the package, as I said, it is currently equipped with the extra large, which is the default and I'm going to move on to the large, so it's a matter of sliding it around to remember the order it came in.

I just need to add this extra to make up for the slack. Go for the big one. Now instead of placing the extra large, this all goes back to the same order and there we put its house back in place, so all we have to do now is make sure that that preload is occupied, so I don't want that there is slack here. wind that down, see, I can adjust the preload, the more I wind this, you should be able to see that spring, hopefully, you can see that spring compressing a little bit as I wind this, the more I wind that thread, the more I'm going to take off. that initial movement of the spring, then I just need to put the locking nut back on.

I'm not going to go over everything now, but it's exactly the same with the clutch. There's a lot of adjustments you can make, so we have coil. adjusting the spring load, adjusting the preload and the force required as well, you can adjust that, so we're going to do a lot of things. I'll leave it as the default though, so I guess the first thing I should say is ease of isolation. On the platform, it was actually very easy, the big bag of nuts and bolts that Whosonville sent with the pedals meant he could bolt this directly to my pedal platform.

I have the sim labs gt1 evo platform and the pedal platform with that and it was just very easy so far. I have used the pedals on a variety of sims eye racing rf2 acc anesthetic corsa. I have had absolutely no issues with connectivity, I simply used the supplied USB directly into the PC, throttle and clutch. plug it into the brake and then run that cable directly from the back of the brake to the computer and it's been very easy, but after setting up the calibration in each simulation it's been pretty much plug and play, just standard in the simulation setup and that has been I have to say that the pedal feel in the simulator is something that impresses me a lot, especially on the brake.

I think, like I said before, it's probably one of the most important pedals in sim racing for consistency and I've found that. To be quite realistic it's very firm which is something I like, it feels like you're in a race car with unassisted brakes, it's easy to apply a lot of pressure and then slowly bleed out if trail shredding is your thing too, which which is really important, the throttle has quite a bit of spring weight and I'm enjoying that it's very different to my previous pedals, but what it does mean is that it makes it easier to modulate the throttle inputs because it's heavier, it's more difficult to accidentally go full throttle. without accelerator, whereas now you can accelerate gradually, which will always lead to greater consistency and ultimately a faster laptop.

I'm really enjoying the feel of the clutch, it feels like a real clutch and once you set it up in the simulator. so the bite point is pretty much where you want it for that cam they've integrated into the pedal, it really feels like a real clutch and I have to say I'm very impressed, most cars I drive don't have clutches. but when I get into something like the um MX-5 that I drive here racing, it's really nice to have three pedals that actually feel like the kind of pedal feel that I would like from a real manual race car, so just to give You have an idea.

I got into the Ferrari again at Alton Park. I'm really focusing on the brake pedal and you can see that the rubber bumper that we replaced earlier compresses in the braking zones, but actually not that much and you can. compare that to the data you can see in the eye race overlay, you'll also see the spring they use for that moving preload. I have mine set to pick up that motion immediately, which I think helps with braking on the track, but again. The most important thing with these pedals really is the amount of adjustability that is available to you, so here we are, so the csr elite load cell pedals that I am removing from the kit, really good set of pedals, I don't have any big ones complaints.

I didn't have any problems with them, I think they're really good, it's just about making that step to the brake feel, having that heavier brake, having the adjustability that I can get on the Houstonvale pedals, that's why that I chose to make the change, but that's not to say there is anything wrong with these, they have served me extremely well, it's just time for you to know, make that step forward, they are well built, but they don't have the fit and finish that you get with Houston. valve, they also don't have the software that you get with those and you just don't get the adjustability, but I'm very happy with a good set of pedals and they have served me well, so my conclusions, in summary, these are really very good pedals With a little more detail than that, the weight you get with the throttle and clutch really feels a lot closer to that of a real car than any other pedal set I've used before this, I have to say as a note.

These are probably the most expensive pedals I've ever used coming from the Fanatec CSL load cell pedals. They are ridiculously easy to set up. The calibration software comes directly from the Hussein Field website. Download it. Calibration is a matter of pressing each one. Pedal until it is complete and rest again, reviewing the program. Too easy. I really enjoy the feeling I get from the brake. I've only been using them for a few weeks, but I can already feel how easy it is. It's the track brake. I'm happy to be able to bleed the brakes gradually just like you would in a real car, but I can see that direct transfer, particularly in racing, where I can see my inputs, is something that all real racing drivers work on when they need to brake and it's nice to be able to see that happening in eye races and I'm very happy considering the cost of these.

I think you really get good value for money. They're probably at the upper-middle end of the race. pedal market, but what you're getting is a very well finished, very well built set of pedals and you're getting adjustability and adjustability is the key here. I have them mounted on my pedal platform, as you can see from this. video, but you can mount them on almost anything and they come with an optional baseplate if that's something you would needset up on your computer, not only that, but if after a few weeks you discover that you would like to move, for example, your face. brake plate a little bit back, it's just a matter of making some adjustments or if you want to advance it it's the other way around, obviously you always have the adjustments for the load cell break, but I can also adjust the preload on the throttle, for example, everything I went through before, but I can't emphasize enough the amount of adjustability, what that gives you in terms of setting up your sim exactly how you'd like it, what that leads to is consistency.and consistency leads to higher positions in races, you may not be the fastest on a lap because you have these pedals, but you can make your time on each lap because you have these pedals and that's where you start making positions for a field, in short and In short, I recommend these pedals.

Yes, if you have this amount of money to spend on a set of pedals, they are a no-brainer in my opinion. I think they are closely related to the fanatec v3. pedals and that's something I'd like to do a comparison on in the future but for me my money would go to who's involved so thank you very much for looking at something a little different. I hope you enjoy it, if so please subscribe and leave me a like and leave a comment if you have used these pedals or used similar ones and think I have missed something or something I should have mentioned please leave it in the comments below , but otherwise, thank you very much. a lot to look at