[DeTomaso] steering wheel diameter
B Hower
b.hower3400 at yahoo.com
Sat Sep 25 20:20:35 EDT 2010
Mike,
My Pantera has a quick release Lecarra with a 12.5 O.D. and I love it. I'm not petite like Judy D. and I push with one hand and pull with the other when parking etc. But what percent of the time am I parking? I just got home from a trip from Whiting to Las Vegas, Ely, SSCC and back to Ely, to Sandy Ut., and home. No I won't give away, nor sell my 12.5 inch steering wheel.
Bud #3400
--- On Sat, 9/25/10, MikeLDrew at aol.com <MikeLDrew at aol.com> wrote:
From: MikeLDrew at aol.com <MikeLDrew at aol.com>
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] steering wheel diameter
To: boyd411 at gmail.com, detomaso at realbig.com
Cc: teampantera at yahoo.com
Date: Saturday, September 25, 2010, 3:45 AM
In a message dated 9/23/10 14 01 53, boyd411 at gmail.com writes:
> I wanted to know what the recommended diameter steering wheel for track
> or
> road racing. My Steering wheel seems like a small diameter for competitive
> driving.
>
The stock wheel was 14 inches. The Euro wheel (Momo Prototipo mostly,
although some Euro cars got a different Momo wheel) is 350mm, or 13 3/4 inches.
Sometimes big gorillas will fit a 13-inch wheel for extra leg clearance
but this results in surprisingly higher steering effort. I have seen one
Pantera with a 12-inch wheel, which was a complete joke.
Because I'm a wimp, for a short time I had a 15-inch wheel in my car.
Judy DeRyke had one in hers and I thought it looked good, and she said it
helped a lot. But in my car, maybe because I chose different wheel style, it
looked really stupid, like a school bus wheel, so eventually I traded it back
for a 14-inch version, then later sold the whole works and installed a 350mm
Prototipo.
Mike (steering effort goes down when the speed goes up, so that's my new
strategy for overcoming my lack of upper body strength!)
--- On Sat, 9/25/10, MikeLDrew at aol.com <MikeLDrew at aol.com> wrote:
From: MikeLDrew at aol.com <MikeLDrew at aol.com>
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] steering wheel diameter
To: boyd411 at gmail.com, detomaso at realbig.com
Cc: teampantera at yahoo.com
Date: Saturday, September 25, 2010, 3:45 AM
In a message dated 9/23/10 14 01 53, boyd411 at gmail.com writes:
> I wanted to know what the recommended diameter steering wheel for track
> or
> road racing. My Steering wheel seems like a small diameter for competitive
> driving.
>
The stock wheel was 14 inches. The Euro wheel (Momo Prototipo mostly,
although some Euro cars got a different Momo wheel) is 350mm, or 13 3/4 inches.
Sometimes big gorillas will fit a 13-inch wheel for extra leg clearance
but this results in surprisingly higher steering effort. I have seen one
Pantera with a 12-inch wheel, which was a complete joke.
Because I'm a wimp, for a short time I had a 15-inch wheel in my car.
Judy DeRyke had one in hers and I thought it looked good, and she said it
helped a lot. But in my car, maybe because I chose different wheel style, it
looked really stupid, like a school bus wheel, so eventually I traded it back
for a 14-inch version, then later sold the whole works and installed a 350mm
Prototipo.
Mike (steering effort goes down when the speed goes up, so that's my new
strategy for overcoming my lack of upper body strength!)
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