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Old 10-06-15, 03:33 AM
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The old 350mm Momo Quark wheel. I just ended up not liking the feel at all. All the lumps and bumps.

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The replacement- 320mm Momo Monte Carlo. Its leather wrapped with red stitch & a very thick grip. I had one of the old F1 Momo horn plates, so I threw that on for the photo :p

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How are you guys liking your suede wheels? Does it wear out really fast? Suede looks very nice and elegant in our cars but I'm skeptical about how fast it will fade
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Install is in my build thread. It's a Mazdaspeed Miata wheel. Looks a lot like my old Spirit R wheel but less than half the price.
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Nardi Classic 360mm

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Now *that* is a lot of gauges

Love all the red accents
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Personal Fittipaldi in leather mounted to a Works Bell standard hub. I really like the way this wheel looks.









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A little of topic but does a smaller aftermarket wheel make a difference in steering feel ?
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A little of topic but does a smaller aftermarket wheel make a difference in steering feel ?
Yes 100%
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My Nardi Personal, just put it in a couple days ago and haven't even driven it yet.
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Originally Posted by 7_rocket
How are you guys liking your suede wheels? Does it wear out really fast? Suede looks very nice and elegant in our cars but I'm skeptical about how fast it will fade
I have a suede wheel. I think about fast wear on it as I drive, which makes me not "hang on it" with me thumbs or grip it like the car is about to throw me off the road. Don't get a cheap suede wheel as the glue around the spokes will let go and then it will look trashy.
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Nardi Gara Sport D wheel.
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A few pics of my "99 spec" 2003 Miata wheel. Have never been pleased with the quality of the recovering done locally a few years ago so I took some time to review all of the options and the quality of work from each shop. Ended up sending the wheel to Dallas Custom Steering Wheels:

Dallas Custom Steering Wheel

Crappy website but fantastic customer service and work. I am blown away by the quality of the recovering but will let you be the judge.

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I used perforated leather on the center sections and non-perforated on the bottom to mimic the 99 spec look but added Alcantara and a red stripe to the top. I also had "them inserts" added to the wheel and had it thickened to update its appearance.

All in all, very pleased and would highly recommend Dallas Custom Steering Wheels to you.
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Wow that Fitapaldi personal looks nice and David Hayes that's a hell of a nice job done on that wheel!
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^ Thanks ZoomZoom. The old recovering of the wheel had bugged me for some time - just poor quality. Did a bunch of searching on the internet to find Dallas Custom Steering Wheels. Not a great website but the quality of the work they posted up was just better than the other companies I had considered.

Gotta say, I am in love with what they did. Fast, prompt, and great quality.
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Here's my Momo Prototipo. Kind of surprised not to see more of these on FDs. It's an iconic wheel that matches well with the classic sports car touches in the guage cluster, and the drilled spokes echo my blacked out passenger footrest.

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Originally Posted by msilvia
Here's my Momo Prototipo. Kind of surprised not to see more of these on FDs. It's an iconic wheel that matches well with the classic sports car touches in the guage cluster, and the drilled spokes echo my blacked out passenger footrest.
I really like it. Who did your shift/ebrake boots? Where'd you get the wrinkle black shift ****? Good looking out on the MS horn button.
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What Narfle said. The entire interior is very nice. Did you also redo your plastics? If you didn't, they are in very nice shape. It's a very clean, techno-black kind of look.
Hey, thanks, guys. It's a lot of thinking about the details but nothing very exotic. The **** and brake lever are from Voodoo, their wrinkle black finish. The boots are both black Alcantara from Redline Goods. The ebrake button is a factory option part for the Miata. The silver part below the shift **** is actually a spare bolt spacer thing I had sitting around the garage that I polished up and threw on to push the boot down a bit further. It was a temporary solution that worked well enough that I haven't come up with something permanent yet.

The plastics are new old stock from Mazda. I replaced the gauge hood, gauge rings & covers, stereo surround, and shifter surround. It was $$$ and it does look good, but I wouldn't recommend it. Mazda revised the '93 plastics so many times by the end that even the NOS pieces don't all perfectly match each other's finish. And of course none of them match the original factory plastics that are still on the door trims and are NLA from Mazda. At some point I'll probably sell these and re-do my old stock pieces, which were all intact but scratched up.

Everyone should totally get a new stock chrome gauge ring piece though. That was a small detail that made a huge difference.
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Another Momo Prototipo, this one in silver. I used the Daikei S-601 hub adapter. A straightforward installation... horn works, turn signals return, and I have no cruise anyway. There's a module to disable the airbag light, too.

The steering wheel is in the perfect position for me and relative to the turn signal and wiper stalks.
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I bought this wheel for my FD awhile ago and I finally got around to opening the package for it. I'd be willing to sell it at this point. Should I mount it?
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