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[TLS2]

Anyone know of a steering wheel spacer that would bring the wheel out a bit and give more legroom ?

Being a bit long in the leg, I kept hitting the steering wheel with my knees when changing gear / braking on a recent test drive.

I found a Momo spacer here, but is has six mounting holes.
I understand the VX steering wheel is a Momo, but has 4 mounting holes. Would it fit ?

[The Knobs]

If you move the wheel out more, surely this will make entry and exit more difficult.

[TLS2]

I was only looking at moving the steering wheel out 1/2 - 1 inch at most, and would have the seat fully back anyway. Surely it wouldn't make much difference (he says hopefully...) Anyone have any pics of the steering wheel in a disassembled state ?

[walkes]

Did this not kill Ayrton Senna?

[captain]

Jesus, how tall are you? I'm somewhere between 6'5" and 6'6" and I manage OK!!!!

[TLS2]

6'5" or so.
I didn't have a problem during "normal" driving, but found my right knee kept hitting the steering wheel when pressing on a bit, moving from accelerator to brake and back (car was left-hand drive).

Found this spacer on eliseparts.com, which might do the trick, if the Elise and VX steering wheels have the same PCD. Just need to use longer bolts to fix it all together.

[jaggeler]

Link to Opel Speedster Forum Germany: http://forum.opel-sp...topic=3830&st=0

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[TLS2]

Danke!

Sent a mail to Dempert Automotive (written in my best Babelfish German) to see if they can sort me out.

[Pipo]

Did this not kill Ayrton Senna?

The actual cause of Senna's accident was the lack of space between the bottom and the road,

[jaggeler]

@TLS2: Bitte! I hope you got response from Dempert-Automotive. Dempert-Automotive is the manufacturer and www.moto-concept.de distributes the Dempert-products. I think in case of the steeringwheel-spacer it's not official listet in the moto-concept shop because it's not legal to use it (german TÃœV)

[Whiteboy]

Did this not kill Ayrton Senna?

The actual cause of Senna's accident was the lack of space between the bottom and the road,

and the fact that he hit a wall at over 200mph.

[cicastol]

Danke!

Sent a mail to Dempert Automotive (written in my best Babelfish German) to see if they can sort me out.

Hi,there are news about this spacer??

[TLS2]

Not heard from Dempert Automotive yet.... Hope I didn't offend them with my poor German translation.

Just sent a mail to moto-concept. If they're the distributor for Dempert, they should have some info/prices on the spacer.
Lots of other cool VX / Lotus stuff on their website too.

[don.hasi]

Hope I didn't offend them with my poor German translation.

Of course not As Jaggeler said, there is a slight problem concerning our TÃœV. So the wait to see how much will want this.

Believe me, there somewhere out there, they want them too. So we try to push this project forward.

Regards Don

[cheese-lobber]

I was only looking at moving the steering wheel out 1/2 - 1 inch at most,

1/2 - 1 inch makes all the difference between a comfortable ride and a not so comfortable ride you know!

[walkes]

I was only looking at moving the steering wheel out 1/2 - 1 inch at most,

1/2 - 1 inch makes all the difference between a comfortable ride and a not so comfortable ride you know!

Or that's what the wife says

[cicastol]

60mm aluminium spacer custom made

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[TLS2]

Nice one!!! You must have Nosferatu-like fingers to reach the control stalks How did you make it ? Is the airbag still in place ?

[cicastol]

Nice one!!!

You must have Nosferatu-like fingers to reach the control stalks

How did you make it ?
Is the airbag still in place ?

It is made by little company here in Italy CNC machined from a solid piece of aluminium,i removed the airbag but it can still in place without problem,now i can drive with much more legroom

[don.hasi]

One of our friends from the pic above has drawn the conclusion, that more than 45mm and the stockwires of the airbag wouldn´t fit anymore So you have to insert sth for 60mm, as he states.

Have you another experience?

THX for answering

Edited by don.hasi, 17 February 2005 - 10:20 PM.