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Installed a New Steering Wheel Tonight
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10-23-2007, 09:29 PM
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Looks great. Also looks like it would have a good feel to it.
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I have the same exact wheel and I love it. I added the extra spacer to move the wheel away from the dash (and a little closer to me). I love it! As a side note, I used WD40 to remove the 'Competition' from the wheel on a suggestion from a fellow Pelican.
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I have the same wheel but used the horn ring with a Momo Porsche crest button. I also removed the Competition, but used a credit card edge to scrape it off. No problems.
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10-24-2007, 02:26 AM
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I'll bet it handles better and is alos much faster
 , not to mention it look much cooler!
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Best upgrade you can do on these cars is change the steering wheel. Makes it seem like a completely different car. BTW nice wheel.
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Very nice looking....Sweeeet.
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What wheel is that and can I ask how much and where bought?
I'm in the market. Thanks!
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$150 + S/H on eBay I paid another $67.50 for the steering wheel hub (required part). It was kinda late when I finished up last night. I only had a chance to go around the neighborhood a bit to make sure things were OK, signal cancel worked, etc. So far, so good. I should have a chance to cut loose a bit more later today.  So I guess I need to drop cash on a Momo shift knob, now. 
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It is a very nice wheel, but I am probably one of the very few that prefers the original wheel. Particularly on the 85- 89 cars, which four spoke wheel I think is delicious but most people seem to hate.
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10-24-2007, 09:13 AM
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Looks comfy.
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10-24-2007, 09:50 AM
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OK, just came back from a brief drive. All I can say is, I should have changed out the steering wheel a long time ago.
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10-24-2007, 01:48 PM
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I have the same wheel
I love it. You're right, it makes the car feel much newer.
I had to change the knob, too. Sorry no pic yet. Thanks for the WD-40 tip on the cheesy "Competition" logo, mine is slightly smeared and I hate it. Those little bumps at approx. 5 & 7 o'clock are great on long drives, I like to use them to massage the botom of my hands! Turned my gauges, too. Whee!
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10-24-2007, 01:55 PM
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I have the same wheel and love it. I used goof off toremove my goofy competition label.
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10-28-2007, 06:51 PM
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I'm quite taken by the roundness of it (not to mention that it appears to be equidistant from the center of the hub to any point on its circumference [unlike the non-concentric stock wheel on my SC]).
I put a hand-stitched (5 mph faster than a machine stitched wheel) Italvolanti on mine - rotated the speedo so I could see up to 90 mph without hunching over and possibly losing control. I left the tach alone. Nice looking wheel you have there (little more effort to parallel park it though, eh?  .
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I'd have to see it in person, doesn't seem to fit the period of the car, but then again the eccentric original wheel I have I don't care for. Not a bad price though.
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10-28-2007, 07:58 PM
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Looks great...I'll have to look into it.
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1983 Porsche 911 SC Cabriolet 3.0
Porsche 914
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