Mounting
When you decide if you prefer bottom or side mounted shifter and actually find place it is very easy to mount it. The mounting base has 4 elongated mount holes accepting M8 hardware and it is only a matter of screwing it in somplace on your rig.
Here we used only 3 of the holes and some side brackets as they allowed correct position relative to seat and other hardware. Shifter body is facing forward which gives us gear 7 and R on the far right - past gear 5-6 gate:
Of course if you have tubular rig you will face some issues, but BDH are happy to work with you and help you find the proper solution.
Baseplate is very solid and mounting only with two screws it should be stable enough but do not be fooled: this is life-like shifter, very strong and requires really solid mount to operate properly.
The unique design with long shifter lever allows you to mount the shifter body in the low part of your cockpit and have the shifter in correct position. This is very comfortable to align it with all your other sim gear you might have. As you can see below we successfully mounted it in perfect position working together with handbrake and full size sequential shifter:
This mount point looks like it has no clearance for shifter travel but this is not the case. Shifter even with the 100mm default stick has relatively short travel and clears every gear perfectly (we could never achieve such compact and well aligned setup with our previous shifters):
Having the shifter mounted so low and stick clearing nice everything around we managed to throw in the mix fully functional mouse pad (looks smaller than it actually is). We even had space to add our navigation/seat control box - shifter travel clears all components very well
Another very cool feature of the desing is that it has flat mount place right next to the gear level-shaft pivot assembly. This will allow you to place a small exciter there and have dedicated vibrations in your shifter. As this is so close to the gear lever you can feel the vibrations without much loss - work really well. We suppose even vibration motors will work well there:
As we always like to take things to extreme we also mounted a full sized Aura bass shaker. Works very well even with the loss of signal we get in the construction:
