WTB : VGS Steering wheel

Hi All,
Any advice on where I can purchase a VGS steering wheel? The one with the flat bottom?
Thanks for any information.

Lloyd, have you looked into this as it will NOT fit. I looked at it and there there is a guy in the US that can modify the VGS steering wheel to fit a standard non VGS car, but he also needs a standard wheel to butcher and the labour alone was around US$500 plus shipping and the cost of the two wheels, hence only a few people have done it.

I could possibly source one, but as I said it is a competely different fitment and is a big job which includes welding and cutting to get it to fit, you can search the US forums for links.

Hi Adrian, I hate to be predantic but they have been designed for the S2000

http://world.honda.com/news/2000/4000707.html

So I just need to find out how to get one!

Lloyd, I can get you one but I am warning you a VGS steering wheel with not fit a non VGS car without serious modification, I am sure Chrisr111 will confirm this, sorry to be predantic

I can get you a second hand one £160 but need to check if it is for sale.

Adrian,
It may not be just for VGS, A limited edition 2009 spec S was wearing one at the Euromeet, It was a car supplied to the head designer and was wearing Swiss plates, I am investigating the owner of the car but looking at other ways to find it.

http://eurogallery.kakuworld.com/?img=946

Lloyd, let me know and I can source it for you. I need to check on the new price but you can look on japanparts.com I think I remember seeing it listed. I did look into doing this mod but as I said it looked like a lot of welding had to be done to the wheel which was 1) expensive 2) didnt look entirely safe.

I will be interested to see how that owner did it, but I think you could get a spec s VGS car in Japan but I thought they were all RHD, perhaps just badging?

I am willing to bet that the wheel has been refurbed and was a standard VGS wheel that has just been resprayed and a brake caliper style sticker added for the S2000 effect. As I said it is something I looked at, think it looks great but the cost of doing it and the fact that the modifier in the states also needed a standard wheel to butcher made it too expensive, but would like to be proven wrong, in this case so I can start a group buy

I can see why Kawasaki wants one I want one too now, but not at the expense of a bodge job and/or safety. Keep us informed as to how you get on mate.

Sti Vi is correct

The splines in a VGS is completely different from a UK S 2000.

Honda did this deliberately.
I looked into this at great length some months ago.



Could be a really expensive engineering job to put right.
But someone needs to be the pioneer.

I was looking for one time ago but gave up in the end

Thanks guys I am glad someone was listening

Right a new VGS steering wheel is £500 plus shipping from japanparts.com http://japanparts.com/db/parts_detail.php?...=26&submit.y=12

I can get hold of a second hand VGS wheel for around £160 with no airbag (OEM airbag will fit the VGS wheel) so who wants to be the guinea pig?

Right after a bit of searching (Gaspode) here is the thread where you need to modify the spline on the VGS wheel http://www.s2ki.com/forums/index.php?showt...&#entry11013076

If you want costs better PM S2KPUDDYDAD on the US forum as it was a ling time ago I asked about cost, but it was too expensive for me. The Mugen/OMP steering wheels are nice but you lose the airbag, which I didn't want either.

Pictures of what is involved to make it easier for you to realise how complicated it seems to be.

I looked into this a couple of years back and didn't think it was worth the extra effort required to fit this wheel. I was also put off a bit by the silver on this wheel. I just wanted the extra leg room/space it provided.

Extra leg room is something I would dearly like to more comfortably accommodate my Ichabod Crane physique in the S...

I guess another route to consider would be taking a standard S steering wheel, stripping off the covering and having the lower edge modified. The wheel would then be recovered, thereby removing the requirement to butcher the hub. It would also avoid having the the tacky silver trim and VGS logo.

Mark, this has also been done on the US forums, but either way you would need to refurb/retrim the wheel. I wouldn't see the silver paint/VGS as being a problem as it is just paint and could be sprayed over.

Here you go: http://www.s2ki.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=717004&st=0

it only provides you with extra legroom when you're going straight on though!

It's a good effort but it doesn't look as good or looks as though it gives you as much legroom as the VGS one. I think the VGS one is a bigger wheel, or it certainly looks slightly bigger.

I must admit I don't like the VGS logo but the other link to the Euromeet shows the wheel with an S2000 logo on it so perhaps there is a supplier out there who does after market ones (could be an earner for someone although I agree it looks like a lot of effort)

That's what I was thinking, it's not going to give you that much extra anyway - lowered seat rail would probably be the better option imvho

The OP has never stated anything about wanting more legroom

That is just WinFreaks opinion

No the OP hasn't - but Polemist and Jamie both did (further up)

IIRC you can change the steering shaft to match the VGS steering wheel, but it might be quite an expensive mod .

Chris.

I have one and its fitted to my car.... so sorry you cant have it!

Sorry for the useless input!

Wow, the one in LLoyd's link is beautiful!

I'd be very interested in one

The picture in Lloyd's link is NOT a VGS steering wheel. It is a modified post 06 steering wheel I think it was a french S2K owner at Euromeet. He probably did something similar as described by Sti Vti

AE if that is a chopped OEM wheel made to look like a VGS wheel he has done a very good job!

Thanks for all the advice!