My LONG TERM REVIEW of the TR160 plus a little Buyer's Guide | Trak Racer TR160

I've been using the Trak Racer TR160 for about 2 years now and wanted to give you my long term review of it.

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[MaxfromPine]

I just got a TR120 and I can confirm now the profiles come all clean and very well protected, 100% scratches free 👍

[BurtRanch]

another great review Dan. wanted to report that I just got a TR120 and they addressed the metal shavings issue. They also changed the T-nuts to ball-bearing style instead of tabs.

[layingblacklines]

Always the best gear reviews. Helpful (e.g. wheel base and pedal mount info) and honest (e.g. don't get the seats). It's like having a mate own the rig and have them tell you their honest opinion.

[amateurgtdriver]

I own the TR160 for 5 months now and I'm loving it. Looks great, feels great, high quality. I have the GT Seat on it and funny enough I found it pretty comfortable. I can sit and race in it for hours straight without issues. I can highly recommend this rig. You will never be in need of anything else again.

[peterromeo]

I got my TR160 MK4 a few days ago and the assembly went without any problems, all my aluminum profiles were clean and so no metal flakes, so far I don't regret the purchase. I had a Motedis Dram-s before and you can already tell the difference, the best example was the pedal deck on the old one I had slight flex, on the TR160 there is no flex at all, its rock solid, and The T-Nut have now also Ball Spring;-) so with the MK4 they Adressed quite all Complains 🙂

[merik]

I have the TR120 for half a year now.Nothing but happy returns from it.If you get a standalone triple monitor stand from TR make sure you get the one with longer horizontal beam and the addon feet are good if your house/flat is old and the rig needs to be adjusted to be horizontal plus if it is a wooden floor they protect it if you need to move the rig when upgrading it.

[Killswitch]

Dan I got my TR160
Last week and built it over the last 3 days and I did not get a single metal flake. I’m in the UK so maybe they got rid of the metal flakes. Also I got the new t-nuts with the ball bearing and they do move but fit ok. Also I got the new red side mounts that now add the height for the wheel deck. As I had to order the seat adapter for my own recliner it added a lot of height so I’m glad track racer sent me the new design of the wheel side mounts. The sliders on the side wheel deck mounts are now on the bottom and the 3 nuts that the extrusion goes into are now on the top.

[OkiDingo]

I downloaded the TR160 manual and ordered all the same profiles from a local supplier in anodized black but in 120. Then ordered hardware, the TR1 Fanatec DD mount, the TR pedals plates, and the TR triangle mounts for the uprights. I would have just ordered the TR120 but it’s not available where I am. All and all very happy.

[orcsoul]

Just purchased a TR160 Mk4 (current iteration) a couple weeks ago. The profiles are much cleaner now for the cockpit rails. The monitor stand rails still use older stock that are filthy with shavings however. The T Nuts have also been swapped to the spring ball variety and with a few exceptions managed to reach the full depth of the channels. The instructions are still pretty spotty however and have lots of small issues where things don't correspond to reality.

[mdui]

I have 2 rigs from track racer. The tr 80 and tr 120. Both serve their purpose extremely well.

[Nick_Kearney]

Hey Dan. First of all, I got a kick out of having you zoom past me in the Drive for Wishes race on the weekend. I was in the Boosted Media Merc GT3.
I've been using a TR160 for a couple of years also. I've also been upgrading my rig over the last couple of years. I had the same horrible experience as you with metal shavings with the original rig. But at least with the profile they ship from their Australian warehouse for the upgrades I've bought, they are properly cleaned these days. Also they recently changed to the good ball spring T-nuts recently. I'm really happy with the TR160 personally, especially the upgradable aspect.

[patrickmurray]

Thanks for the review. I have a tr160 and love it. But I agree with you on the t-nuts from trak racer (the kind without the balls but instead the metal wings). I bought a bag of ball-style t-nuts as they are far easier to remove if you change the rig around a lot. The t-nuts with the metal wings are nearly impossible to remove once the rig is assembled and you can’t slide them in/out from the open end of the profile. Also on the tr120 vs tr160, I ended up liking the 160 as I wanted to add motion and having a rectangular shape was a better choice for the actuators versus the 120 where it has that kink in the middle of the long side so the rig dimensions are not the same on each end. The other thing I wish they offered was a floor plate to go right in front of the pedal deck to hide stuff under the rig (usb hubs, motion system stuff, etc) and put your feet on. I bought one of those from GT-omega as a reviewer there said it fits the tr160/tr120 out of the box. But the amount of other options is great from trak racer and just about every use case is there for what you might want. Oh and yes the seat is just ok (rally style) and it’s next on my list to get a better seat from a dedicated seat manufacturer.

[LightningHotlaps]

What are you thoughts on the inverted pedal plate? Is it just personal preference, or would the inverted plate potentially have more flex?

[Marceloestevespi]

What about the inverted pedal plate? Why did you skip it? Iam going to build a rig and this would have been very helpful since I’m thinking about going for the p1000 inverted pedals.

[Ghosn]

The metal shavings are a good point to bring up, especially if u have indoors pets who could potentially eat and digest these metal shaving. Took me ages to make sure the floor was completely clean of these shavings before the dog was allowed into my room.

Also, I have the original TR160 with intergrated triple stands and even with a SC 2 pro, I have ZERO wobble or shake in my monitors. I have even tested by placing my hands on the mounts and rails that hold up my monitors during heavy FFB and you can't even feel any vibration coming through from the wheel base. It gets absorbed well before it can affect the integrated monitor stand.

[joshuak]

The racingcockpits keyboard tray fits a 65% keyboard perfectly and it swivels in two places to have it right in front of you or off to the side.

[evanlaske]

Fwiw, the T nuts of the new kits are the ball springs, and I did experience the shavings issue in 2022 with my monitor mounts but the TR120 I got in 2023 had no issues with shavings so they might have improved both those counts.

[coolmus]

TR160 is a great rig. I’ve had it over a year now with integrated 32 in triple monitors and no discernible shake.

[goonie]

I ordered a shifter mount add-on for my TR80 with the BF sale, and it came with ball style T-nuts, so they must be listening to feedback. Also the TR80 has been rock solid running my VRS base and HE Sprint pedals, probably more than enough for anyone except maybe running motion.

[chasezas]

Regarding the t-nuts with the ball bearing @3:13 - when I got my TR160 about a year ago, most of the ball bearing t-nuts that I received worked fine, but a few of them didn't fit properly as you described. The t-nuts with the leaf spring are terrible.