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We want to make our steering wheel removable. Combination of girth / exit strategy and it's just plain cool....
Have not seen any specific rules.
Are there any? Are the $20 ebay devices on the "use at your own peril" list?
Any ebay safety devices are use at your own peril.
Get a quality quick release hub. period. You do not want that to loosen up or break. Use red loctite on all the bolts/nuts.
Like you, I'm a large guy and I'm not going to get into a car I can't get out of in a hurry. I've seen too many fires and how fast they can happen.
Avoid this kind of thing, as well:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXTqVkbqki8
Unless you're as much of a boss as the driver was/is.
Avoid this kind of thing, as well:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXTqVkbqki8
Unless you're as much of a boss as the driver was/is.
LOL !
Avoid this kind of thing, as well:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXTqVkbqki8
Unless you're as much of a boss as the driver was/is.
The funniest part is the comment from the guy that attached his steering wheel on "upside down" and couldn't steer his car. That made me giggle. I wonder if he has ever mounted a wheel upside down too?
We use this one and are very happy with it: http://www.bicknellracingproducts.com/c … mp;id=1663
It's the same one Pegasus will sell you for a lot more. It's the cheapest of its kind (release mechanism is 360˚, not just a pin) that I know of.
Be careful with the single pin style. I cracked my nose with mine loading the car into the trailer last fall. And I've smacked into my face shield at least once.
We have the $24 Wilwood single pin release, works fine.
But I'm really interested in knowing how does one crack their nose or helmet with it?
To answer the OP's question, we spent the $24 for the QR hub under the assumption it comes under the driver comfort & safety exclusion. Even if we did get dinged for it, it really is a safety thing that we won't go without.
therood wrote:Avoid this kind of thing, as well:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXTqVkbqki8
Unless you're as much of a boss as the driver was/is.
The funniest part is the comment from the guy that attached his steering wheel on "upside down" and couldn't steer his car. That made me giggle. I wonder if he has ever mounted a wheel upside down too?
He barely beat out the guy who suggested that the driver took the wheel off on purpose b/c it wasn't straight. Know how I know that guy's never driven a race car?
We have the $24 Wilwood single pin release, works fine.
But I'm really interested in knowing how does one crack their nose or helmet with it?
To answer the OP's question, we spent the $24 for the QR hub under the assumption it comes under the driver comfort & safety exclusion. Even if we did get dinged for it, it really is a safety thing that we won't go without.
When you haven't greased the hub in a while and you're rolling your car down the driveway, into the street and toward the ramp... sometimes you end up with the wheel at an odd angle - not straight ahead. And then when you're struggling to apply pressure evenly across the wheel while holding the pin at an odd, uncomfortable angle the wheel doesn't really want to come off.
So there you sit, with the wheel halfway off, halfway on. Unlatched, but not moving. So you start applying gradually more pressure in short little bursts until WHAM! it releases its grip on the hub and slams into the bridge of your nose.
Blood gushes out, your wife thinks you're going to pass out and is freaking out for you to get out of the car before that happens cause she knows she can't lift your heavy ass out of there... You climb out of the car and your neighbors are driving by while you drip blood out of your hand and onto to the pavement. Your wife grabs some papertowels from the garage for you, but you've still got a sort of blood goatee happening...
Much better to do it when you're wearing your helmet, obviously.
New rule, helmets must be worn when removing steering wheels, heh.
We used the NRG quick-release in ours ... picked it up on closeout, along with an NRG smaller diameter flat-bottomed wheel, from some tuner site for around $200/shipped for both IIRC. Since two of our team members are rather tall, we considered it as falling under driver safety/comfort.
Use red loctite on all the bolts/nuts.
This. Seriously.
Avoid this kind of thing, as well:
The reason that this wheel came off was because I got a $50 Wheel and Quick Release Hub off eBay.
We used the NRG quick-release in ours ... picked it up on closeout, along with an NRG smaller diameter flat-bottomed wheel, from some tuner site for around $200/shipped for both IIRC. Since two of our team members are rather tall, we considered it as falling under driver safety/comfort.
We have a weld on but I will use NRG in the future. Even if I have to weld it on.
The horn wiring can be used for a horn or radio PTT or whatever you need a push button for.
We used the NRG quick-release in ours ... picked it up on closeout, along with an NRG smaller diameter flat-bottomed wheel, from some tuner site for around $200/shipped for both IIRC. Since two of our team members are rather tall, we considered it as falling under driver safety/comfort.
We have this one as well. It falls under driver comfort you won't get dinged on it. Also with this one the wheel only goes on 1 way so you can't put it on wrong as well.
If the PTT wire passes through the QD, does it hafta be plugged in separately, or is there an electrical contact in the QD that is automatically connected?
If the PTT wire passes through the QD, does it hafta be plugged in separately, or is there an electrical contact in the QD that is automatically connected?
It has a set of contacts inside the hub that make/brake contact when the wheel is removed. So no plugging/unplugging once it's installed.
Coolio. Hafta look into that for the next build.
YesIFit wrote:We used the NRG quick-release in ours ... picked it up on closeout, along with an NRG smaller diameter flat-bottomed wheel, from some tuner site for around $200/shipped for both IIRC. Since two of our team members are rather tall, we considered it as falling under driver safety/comfort.
We have this one as well. It falls under driver comfort you won't get dinged on it. Also with this one the wheel only goes on 1 way so you can't put it on wrong as well.
We use this one too, and I also have a sparco one in the real race car. I would suggest this one above all the others I have used, no slop, very secure, and it stays unlocked until you put the wheel back on. Love it
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