I’d had a hankering for
a Momo wheel ever since. At the time I didn’t do anything
about getting one, though I did acquire a TRD horn button – nothing like
planning ahead!At the first show I went to after the engine transplant I was on the Fensport
stand where I spotted a Momo Race steering wheel on Tony Charles’ Celica GT4
and I’d had a hankering for
a Momo wheel ever since. At the time I didn’t do anything
about getting one, though I did acquire a TRD horn button – nothing like
planning ahead!
At the end of May 2007 I decided it was time to get a Momo Fighter only to find that Momo had discontinued it. I tried lots of Momo dealers but none of them had any stock. EBay showed two available from Germany and one in the UK. I called the UK seller but they confirmed that it was discontinued and they didn’t have any stock – so why was it still for sale on EBay two weeks after I asked them about it? The German seller said that they had 2 wheels in stock so I bought one. Kevin in Droitwich thinks that I need the boss kit from the Corolla GTi so I got that from Demon Tweeks.
The wheel arrived in a timely fashion so good feedback for the EBay seller. It looks like the TRD horn button won’t fit without some modification to either the button or the wheel centre ring so I think I’ll stick with the Momo supplied button.
A couple of weeks later, I took the Rolla to Kevin. After a lot of head scratching and a bit of soldering the wheel is on everything is working perfectly though fitting wasn’t without its problems. The new GTi boss would have needed some serious modification to get the indicator self cancelling and horn working properly. Kev had exactly the same steering wheel on his AE82 Corolla but with a different boss though he had never managed to get the horn working. He had got these when he stripped a crashed 1993 Mk II MR2 that had been imported from Japan. The boss from that fitted my Corolla as though it was made for it so we were able to use the original horn contact ring and the self cancelling worked without any mods. Also the rubber sleeve for the boss covers the hole in the steering column casing exactly. To finish the job the horn button had to be swapped and the passenger air bag was disconnected. By swapping the bosses Kev now has one that is better suited to fitting to his Corolla. Happiness all round.
Earlier this year I’d seen a supercharged badge on
a Vortech equipped Mustang and had been looking for a similar one though I had
no idea where the badge had come from. While I was looking at EBay for the
steering wheel I found a seller who was offering exactly the badge I had seen
(it’s a Range Rover supercharged badge) so I bought that too.
It looks good on the car, almost the same colour as the paint; subtle and stylish. I have removed the Likwidart Supercharged graphic – it’s cleaned up the rear of the car nicely.