[DeTomaso] steering wheel diameter

[Bill Lewis]

Aha! So bigger is NOT always better.  Suppose you go down to a 6" O.D. - you would have to be a MAN to steer it.  Then, only Superman, or the Hulk could drive with only a "Nut" to grip.   ---Bill (grinning my butt off - would they even fit inside a Pantera) Lewis





> Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 17:20:35 -0700
> From: b.hower3400 at yahoo.com
> To: MikeLDrew at aol.com
> CC: detomaso at realbig.com
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] steering wheel diameter
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> Mike,
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> 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.
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> Bud #3400 
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> --- On Sat, 9/25/10, MikeLDrew at aol.com <MikeLDrew at aol.com> wrote:
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> 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
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> In a message dated 9/23/10 14 01 53, boyd411 at gmail.com writes:
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> > 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.
> > 
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> 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:
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> 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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