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Steering wheel size

Postby nick » 18 Mar 2010 20:59

My 7's original wheel is 14 inches. I acquired a wheel that is supposedly from an 8. It is 13 inches. Is that correct? Are the 8 wheels 13 inches or 14 inches?
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Postby Workshop Help » 18 Mar 2010 21:12

Our absolutley stock steering wheel on our 1976 Coupe measures 13 3/4" from outside to outside. Mind you, these are U.S. inches I'm talking about.

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Postby Underdog » 18 Mar 2010 22:51

The TR8 definitely has a smaller dia steering wheel. Motolita I believe. I can get a measurement tommorrow but 13" sounds about right.

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Postby FI Spyder » 19 Mar 2010 00:05

TR8 wheel is 13" and standard on the Spider and 30th Anniversary Edition. Being smaller it is more difficult to turn the wheel and kind of like driving a go kart at speed (the last part not a bad thing). The biggest drawback is I can't quite see the signal lights on the dash so have to dip my head to make sure the signal lever returned to neutral if it's too noisey out to hear the clicking. The good thing is it looks good.


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Postby Spectatohead » 19 Mar 2010 05:21

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Century Gothic, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by FI Spyder</i>

Being smaller it is more difficult to turn the wheel and kind of like driving a go kart at speed (the last part not a bad thing). <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">
The power rack on the TR8 eliminates the first part and makes the second even more fun. [:D]

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Postby REPLIC8 » 19 Mar 2010 06:41

My TR8 steering wheel maesures 13 1/4" (337mm) outside to outside

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Postby Marsu » 19 Mar 2010 16:12

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Century Gothic, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Mildred</i>

... Mind you, these are U.S. inches I'm talking about.
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I knew that the United States, having appropriated the gallon as a unit of measure, determined it to be different to the imperial (UK) gallon.

But Mildred's comment above suggests that the same applies to linear measures - which is news to me.

Why oh why can't we all use the the same, sensible and logical metric system?
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Postby FI Spyder » 19 Mar 2010 19:44

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Century Gothic, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Marsu</i>
[brWhy oh why can't we all use the the same, sensible and logical metric system?
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We do, except for the USA and some small island in the middle of nowhere.[:)]


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Postby Underdog » 19 Mar 2010 20:14

Whats a Cubit?

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Postby FI Spyder » 20 Mar 2010 01:10

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Century Gothic, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Underdog</i>

Whats a Cubit?
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Why...you planning on building another ark? [:)]


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Postby Henk » 20 Mar 2010 09:14

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Century Gothic, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Underdog</i>

Whats a Cubit?

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1 cubit = 45.72 centimeters, yea good for a ship.

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