The GameSTUL Heritage is a sim racing cockpit that folds into a chair-sized wooden unit when you’re done racing. GameSTUL, a Russian sim rig maker, builds it from 18mm plywood in 15 parts, and the patented design uses hardware you can find at any hardware store: 140mm flush bolts like the ones on interior doors, M8x40 bolts and nuts, and 7×50 confirmat screws.
In the US, you don’t buy the Heritage as furniture. GameSTUL sells the design as a CNC and laser-cut file set on Cults3D for $99, and you cut the parts and put the cockpit together yourself.
Price: $99 for the cut-file set
Where to buy: Cults3D
Fifteen parts and standard hardware
The Heritage carries Russian patent No. 2439710 for its folding design. The file set includes DXF files for every part, a PDF with step-by-step assembly instructions and 1:1 templates, and STL models of the finished rig for preview. It’s drawn for 18mm laminated plywood, and plain plywood works too.
Assembled, it gives you a full driving position for a wheel, pedals and a seat. The wheel and pedal shelves fold away with the hardware still attached, and the cockpit stands as a wooden chair instead of a rig that eats a room. GameSTUL lists support for MOZA R3 and R5 wheelbases and MOZA SR-P pedals.
A cheaper HomeRevolution
GameSTUL made the Heritage for the 15th anniversary of its HomeRevolution folding cockpit, and it carries over that rig’s ergonomics at a much lower price. GameSTUL rates it for drivers from 140 to 225cm tall (about 4 feet 7 inches to 7 feet 4 inches) and 45 to 95kg (about 99 to 209 pounds).
Unfolded, the finished kit measures 136 x 67 x 70cm. Folded, it takes up a 60 x 67cm footprint, and the factory version weighs 13kg.
Files in the US, kits elsewhere
GameSTUL sells the precut kit in Russia, and a dealer in the UAE carries it too, but there’s no US retailer for the finished kit. The Cults3D files are a digital download, so the $99 set is the way to get a Heritage here if you have access to a CNC router or a large laser cutter.
Vincent wants to build one
Vincent saw this one and wanted to start cutting the same day. He already has an xTool X1 and an xTool P3 in the GADGETEER shop, and he’s eyeing the $99 file set to build a Heritage himself. A wooden race cockpit off his own lasers that folds back into a chair after the last lap? That’s the dream weekend project, and I’d lose a whole Saturday to it too.
If he builds it, you’ll see the whole thing here, from the first cut to the first lap.
Two folding cockpits you can buy today
If you want a folding cockpit as a finished product this week, these two ship now.
Next Level Racing GTLite (NLR-S021)
The GTLite is a foldable GT-style cockpit built for small spaces. It takes a wheel and pedals and folds flat when the race ends.
Price: $189.05
Where to buy: Amazon
Next Level Racing GTLite Pro (NLR-S031)
The GTLite Pro is the stronger frame. Next Level Racing rates it for entry-level direct-drive wheelbases up to 13Nm, the padded seat has three recline positions, and it includes a shifter and handbrake mount. It folds and rolls away for storage.
Price: $299
Where to buy: Amazon
| Cockpit | Price |
|---|---|
| GameSTUL Heritage cut-file set | $99 |
| Next Level Racing GTLite (NLR-S021) | $189.05 |
| Next Level Racing GTLite Pro (NLR-S031) | $299 |
The Heritage is the only one of these that looks like furniture when it’s put away. That’s the whole reason to build one.
Price: $99 for the cut-file set
Where to buy: Cults3D
Buy the Heritage file set if you have a CNC or laser cutter and want a wooden cockpit for $99 plus materials. Buy the GTLite Pro if you want a finished folding cockpit this week.
