I'd like to see how after-market steering wheels look on the third gens especially Firebirds. Does anyone have one on their car, it would be a appreciated. Thanks

 

Not a bird but you get the idea. It's a Grant carbon fiber.

 

What kind of guages are those and where did you get them? They look sweet.

 

here's mine, i took a grant steering wheel from any auto parts stor and snazzed it up a little. painted it gunmetal grey and attached a round camaro keychain painted the same color to the horn. i like it looks custom but not to wild and in my opinion thirdgen camaros steering wheels were hideous. hope this helps

 

i like the idea of an airbag being in mine i think ill leave it alone

 

willdog666,
I am diggin' the interior....but loose the stickers bro!

 

Well since my car is an 82 I don't have a stock airbag, otherwise I don't think I'd mess with it either. That is a nice looking wheel wilddog...did you use car paint or spray paint to make it that color...I really like the way that looks.

 

i have a similar one, but in satin...

 

its touch up paint spray paint gunmetal grey i think from autozone. oh yeah the stickers...lol,i have a wierd fetish with em just gotta stick em everywhere. i don't really like em either they come and go all the time.

 

Thanks. The gauges are from Classic Instruments.

http://www.classicinstruments.net/

They ran me about $425. I'm redoing the panel because some of the gauges are hard to see when I'm driving. I may go with a gauge pod for 2 or 3 of them.

 

Here is the wheel in my '86:



And here is the wheel I'm putting in my orange IROC:



Can you can tell I like billet???

 

I here the air bags in our cars suck pretty bad and you are probably safer without them. Personally, I'm a fan of the Momo figher wheel and the flame design Blue502 posted.

 

I've got that Grant wheel too... Looks cool and can't beat the price! Haven't installed it yet though. I'll get around to it sooner or later.

 

hey willdog666, is that a cupholder I see in your center console??? If so, how did you get that in there????

 

Yeah, I've heard that the airbags are pretty bad as well. They are first generation airbags which means they come out at at the same speed regardless of the speed of the car at impact. If you sustain injuries in a crash that the airbag could have supposedly prevented though the insurance companies won't pay for your medical expenses. I hate the fact that every time I go to blow the horn I end up punching the airbag twice before realizing that I have to press those two iddy biddy thumb tabs on the side that only work 20% of the time. My plan is to try to get a steering wheel out of an 87 or 88 to put in there as well as a guage cluster if I can get it to work. That way it will all look stock... just slightly older.

 

You beat me to it! I miss my Budweiser (I meant coffee) on the way to work! Comon willdog, where'd the cup holder come from???? Let us in on it!

I was in the market for a steering wheel myself. I have been looking at that same Grant steering wheel and wondered how it looked installed. After seeing it, I'll be getting one next week.

BTW - I say keep the stickers!
Being a MX'r, I have a big sticker fetish.

 

ahh the infamous cupholder. believe it or not it's a rice burner cupholder. it actually says type s on the side lol. i got it from Advanced Auto Parts in the ***** section(just be quick and don't let anyone see you). it was silver. i took my console out, traced the cupholder and used a little saw to cut the hole. then used textured black paint from lowes to match the interior. lemme know if you have any questions, pretty easy to do and looks great.

 

Ahh crap, you don't have power windows. The switches for pwr windows are right where that cupholder is. I have a cupholder, its right behind the center console, but its kinda hard to put it there and drive. It's one of those Spillmaster cupholders that are adjustable. I like yours though.

 

Here is a crappy pic of my Grant GT wheel

 

I just repainted mine kinda silver, it was black. I left the horn button the way it was after I took the wire wheel to it. Kinda looks good, I dunno.

 

That looks like one of my Camaro keychains. Was it originally a sort of bronze color? Lol. I have a different Camaro keychain for each set of keys that I have (4 sets).

 

Here's another Grant wheel, leather covered, with the Camaro horn cap in silver.

JamesC

 

yup Jza a little bronze camaro keychain. it just happened to be the exact size of the "GT" logo on the wheel. i like the steering wheel but not the logo so i cut the chain off the camaro keychain glued ithe camaro logo on and painted it. :lala:

 

willdog666,
The L98 is a TPI, not a TBI

 

willdogg, where abouts in MD do you live? we need to et together sometime and do some rice hunting. only thing is though, i gotta show u the difference between an L98 and TBI 350's.

 

Does any body know where I can find a 6 bolt wheel adapter for our cars? It seems like everyone has the Grant 5 bolt patterns. Even Summit couldn't help.

 

huh? got me...

 

Well heck, I should've come in here before I posted my question. I've never installed an A/M wheel before. Do they come with horn switches? Or did everyone just rig their own?? If so, how?

 

Yes, they usually come with provisions for the horn. The quality of it is going to depend on the wheel though... ahem.

 

Ah, well crud. Thanks for the info.

Still up in the air about fixing mine.

 

heres mine, 86 vette wheel

 

I have the Grant GT wheel as well. Nothing fancy, but it feels better than the stock hula-hoop one

 

What did you all do with the airbag cable?? Just cut it off? orrr..... what?

 

now is it just me, or does he have a cup holder???

looks like the clock was there and he removed it?

 

I went to mcdonalds tonight and got a meal and a McFlurry. So I had a soda and a mcflurry, I had the soda between my legs and i was holding the mcflurry in my left hand (yeah..its a 5 speed ). Then a ***** gets next to me at a light and revs his engine. I had my hands full and I couldn't do anything....If I had the cupholder that would not have happened!!!!!!

I have power windows, but heres the solution. Route the switch to the sides of the console on each side...then make a cutout for a cupholder.
OR
use 1/3 of the console box to jerry-rig a cupholder into it. The only thing is that if you are drinking you need to have the lid open.


Let me know what you think.

--Dan

 

There is a tech article lurking around here somewhere that details how to make cupholders that go in place of the front ashtray.


What the hell was Chevy thinking??....not even ONE cupholder.....


Even if it is a sports/muscle car.. Didn't the first Viper have at least one crappy cupholder?

 

maybe they were afraid we would use it to hold beer.

Wildogg666 where in MD?

 

I would say they were trying to be true to the old hot rod ideals of speed and function over creature comforts and luxuries, but if that were the case then AC, power windows, power doors, rear window defogger, power mirrors, etc would have never been available as options.

 

*cough* Airbag wire?

 

I would just pull it back down into the steering column in case they give you **** about it come inspection time... you could just hook everything right back up.

 

Thanks for the advice, its what I should have done. (I've already sporked up). I started by dissconnecting everything, removing the coil in the steering column, and taking the yellow shroud off the little black plastic plug at the end (where it hooks to the comp). Then tried to pull the wire up through the column....

It stuck halfway in...

after fighting with the dangling coil for over an hour, I finally just snatched it out, so I've got a broken SIR plug halfway inside my steering column...

On the upside, the wheel fits now

 

Here's mine, but not for long<BR>

 

Here's another Grant wheel



Later,

-Schultzy

 

I've always thought it'd be cool to have a second gen Firebird steering wheel. Those are great wheels! Anyone have 3rdgen pics?

 

I like nosaints wheel!

 

It felt really good but it was a little to *****, not to mention the
aluminum hub didnt go with anything.

Sold it, momo here i come!

 

ok just to clear this up the cupholder is not in the place of the clock i never had one, i know the clock was an option, but not for me. i made the cupholder. second the motor IS an l98 350 i put in the car and used the original 305 TBI with 350 chevy truck injectors, and it serves me well to lay some thick *** rubber. to see more info of what's done to the car go to www.hotrod-hell.com, it's my buddy's car enthusiast page, check it out.

 

oops oh yeah i live in easton, maryland.

 

Grant makes some nice Bowtie and Camaro horn buttons for those Challenger wheels, check out their site at:

www.grantproducts.com

 

BitchinCamaro... hey man... that is the exact wheel that i am loooking for man... where did you pick that one up at???