350mm MOMO steering wheel

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Advice, please. A friend has kindly gifted me a Momo wheel which adorned his 2002Tii in the 1970's. It is a fine piece of work in excellent condition. It is the bare wheel - no hub. The six countersunk drilled fixing holes are equidistant which means that is is not a straight swap for the 380mm Petri standard wheel on my RHD CSL. Nor would it fit on my Series 2 CSi without considerable alteration to the hub centre and horn arrangement, I think. First, is 350mm too small for an e9? I seem to recall someone suggesting on here that 360mm was absolute minimum. Second, is it possible to obtain a hub centre which adapts the Momo wheel to the e9 column and horn ring arrangement? FYI the Series 2 RHD CSi was fitted as standard with a slightly adjustable steering column (perhaps 30mm) which, so far as I am aware , may not have been the case on other models.I am eager to make use of the kind gift on one of my cars but how best do I go about it? Any advice gratefully received. John.
 
Any pics possible?
Is it a stacked Momo logo and the back?

I run a 350mm Momo/Alpina 3 spoker with pwr steering and love it.

A larger 380/400mm might be preferred if you don't have power steering, larger wheel gives more leverage.

I drove a friends cpe once that had a smaller M1 rudder (330mm?) without pwr steering, brutal....

hth
-s
 
Lots of folks on here dislike the 350mm on a coupe. You need to pick up a Momo hub with the brass ring that fits an e9 (and others, but not a 2002). The newer accordian style hubs can
be had for around $50 used, $80 or so new. The more period correct solid hubs can be found for around $100 used.

You can buy Nardi to Momo adapter rings. The petri hub looks great There is no reason why you couldn't have a machine shop make you an adapter ring. They work just like road wheel adapters.
 
John,
I've posted photos that show the MOMO hub/boss in these threads:
http://www.e9coupe.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16408
http://www.e9coupe.com/forum/showthread.php?t=14833

A couple of things to keep in mind...
- if the wheel is flat, that will shorten the distance between the switch stalks and the wheel's rim. The hubs are not all the same length and it seems that they work best with dished wheels.
- As Shanon has pointed out, some people like a smaller wheel (conversely, some people will only use the big bus wheel). Swapping the wheels only takes a few minutes, so it might be worth a few test drives to see what you think.
 
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