Shift light with vintage cars (Porsche Pack)

i am tremendously enjoying the Porsche Pack (the 911 RSR 3.0 is what I have been waiting for).

One issue I have is that I race these older cars with a Fanatec GT rim with integrated LCD and shift lights.

In my rig setup unfortunately the tachometer is just hidden enough so I depend on a shiftlight for shifting just at the right moment.

As standard the entire Chistmas tree is lighting up - terrible and not at all contemporary.

I want just the three red center LEDs to light up at once - resembling the shiftlights these 70's era Porsche race cars often had in the cockpit.

Is there a way to do it?

I have already played with Fanaleds but could not get the shiftlights working properly.

 

FanaLEDs is your best option tbh. AC doesn't support the LEDs on any wheels natively AFAIK.

 

or a bit of tape covering the outer leds... ;-)

 

Just for information, shift lights were not in use in the 70s.

 

G27 shift leds work with AC.

 

Thanks for the input guys.
To clarify: with Fanaleds the shift light LEDs and LCD display do work as designed.

It is just that I would like to remove the christmas tree high tech behavior and have a single, red shift light as these Porsche 911 RSR did have back in the days when they were racing.

I got half way there with Fanaleds:

- in Fanaleds in the selector which shift light style you want to use, select "disabled" (this will stop the shift lights from sequentially lighting up with the rev counter)
- select each of the three single red shift light LEDs and sign a engine rev percentage to them

Now the three red LEDs will indeed light up when the specified engine rev is reached.

The problem is:

THEY STAY LIT and don't shut off once the engine rev falls under the specified value !@#$% !
Did I over look a setting here? It doesn't make any sense to behave that way.

 

Thanks for the info David.
It's strange, I do remember (maybe wrong) that I raced 911 RSR 2.8 and 3.0 in … maybe GTL or the later Power&Glory mod (I just can't remember) and I do remember that in some cars one of the warning lights in the dashboard was utilized as a shift light.

I could not find any onboard videos showing such a modification in original vintage Porsche 911 RSR racers.
Indeed you are most likely right and such modifications surely were added in later years when such vintage cars were raced in modern events (same as retrofitted safety features as modern belt systems, fire extinguisher systems, timers, …).

Nevertheless I would love to get the Fanatec LEDs working in a similar fashion (all three red center LEDs lighting up at once without flashing).

Oh - the earliest reference for Porsche racecars that had shift lights were Porsche 935 racers which did have some really fancy high end cockpits for the time (in the late 70's already) - certainly not in the early 70's with Porsche 917 versions and naturally aspirated 911 racers.

 

The AC Ferrari 312T has what looks like a light on the right of the tachometer. In rl if it wasn't a shift light what was it?

 

My best guess would be a warning light. Maybe for oil pressure.

 

We need a Jay Leno's Garage video on that car to get the dashboard explained:

"Let's see what we got here … speedomet'r, tachomet'r, we got our oil pressure gäydge, … "
"I think it's time to take 'er for a riiide."
"Let's see how she cruises and take 'er on the highway"
[driving by with flying hair] "Yaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy !!!"
"You know I hate it when people on the internet say Ferrari 312T F1 cars are unreliable or shoddy made … you just have to do them right … I had one for 60 years and another for 25 years and we did the restoration 4 times and only now she is perfect … "

 

fuel light I think. The gauges look to be water temp, tach, oil pressure, and either another pressure or voltage.

 

GTL modelled vintage cars brought a bit to modern standard because it modeled a modern "Historics" cup. I remember the Porsche there had an LCD laptimer in the cockpit, for example.