RazMan
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| posted on 26/1/05 at 10:56 PM |
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Momo steering wheel mods for SVA?
I have a Momo Steering wheel of the 'flat bottom' variety to allow more room for my legs (standard Sierra one touches my knees) I know
that the Momo will not pass SVA so is there any mod to get it through? Is it just the alloy spokes that need to be covered or am I on the wrong track?
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tom_loughlin
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| posted on 26/1/05 at 11:11 PM |
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it would probably just be easier to grin and bear it for sva (unless its hindering your movement) and swap it after the test.
Tom
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mangogrooveworkshop
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| posted on 26/1/05 at 11:46 PM |
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go for sva with stock wheel.........a lot of hassel will be saved........see macspeedy sva.
We had to find one in Glasgow in a hour........and it was the wrong one we picked up first....another trip back to the scrappers
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albertz
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| posted on 27/1/05 at 07:00 PM |
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I am hoping to try and get through with my Momo 270mm flat bottomed wheel, simply because i cannot fit in the car with the standard Toyota wheel,
never mind operate the controls!!
I am hoping to make some kind of padding up, thats looks permanent enough to convince the tester. Also my wheel does not have a centre horn button, so
i plan to mount a small pushbutton on the dash. Hopefully there wont be any SVA problems with doing this?
BTW if anyone has pictures of an SVA compliant Momo wheel mock up then i would be delighted.
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RazMan
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| posted on 27/1/05 at 09:48 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by albertz
I am hoping to try and get through with my Momo 270mm flat bottomed wheel, simply because i cannot fit in the car with the standard Toyota wheel,
never mind operate the controls!!
A man after my own ..... size (probably)
I thought it just had to have all radiuseseses (sp) over 2.5mm so surely some kind of rubber trim around the flat spokes would do it ..... or am I
just wishful thinking?
Edit: Or how about this little gizmo from Europa?
It would seem to cover all of the 'iffy' bits
[Edited on 27/1/05 by RazMan]
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Peteff
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| posted on 27/1/05 at 11:23 PM |
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All the tester at Derby was bothered about was the screw heads holding it together. He never mentioned the spoke radius (radii plural Raz  ) on a
Mountney wheel.
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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albertz
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| posted on 28/1/05 at 07:52 AM |
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I think i will chance it for the SVA, if it fails it wouldn't be that serious to file a radius.
Put it this way - if thats all it fails on i will be happy
The Europa thing may be an option, probably quite pricey though?
Being 6'5" and 15 stone, its not easy trying to fit everything to suit me in a standard chassis, which begs the question why is it a
standard chassis?......too far into it now to worry
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Bananaman
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| posted on 28/1/05 at 09:18 AM |
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The SVA pad for a Mountney wheel is £11 according to the latest Merlin Motorsport catalogue.
Cheers
Michael
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 28/1/05 at 09:31 AM |
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I fitted a similar thing to my Astrali wheel - and I'm leaving it on, following a crash report from someone in the Suffolk area (sorry -
forgotten your name! ). Amongst other injuries, his hands were carved up a bit by his wheel spokes.
It doesn't get in the way of my hands anyway, and looks tidy.
David
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