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The EMPI GT Custom:
(http://www.webwrench.com/airaccess/empi1970/strwh/strwh2a.jpg)

The EMPI GT Rallye:
(http://www.webwrench.com/airaccess/empi1970/strwh/strwh4a.jpg)

Looks like the same wheel to me...

one rim is wood the other is not

One wheel is "genuine hardwood", the other is "securely bonded hardwood fibers" ::) Good eye, Lids. I missed that.
I wonder if I can tell which wheel mine is, looks wood to me, but then they both do!

nothing to do with the logo in the  padded center  in one they said blue gold ,and gray , and in the other one they said blue & gold  , i've already asking myself what's the difference between those  ::)

I think you have the GT rallye if the code on the box you posted is correct, later catalogs the codes were different than the one you show

Good post Zack.

Which brings up a question I have had...what is the difference between the 14 and 15 in wheels? is it the 400mm and 380mm? comparing the two wheels side by side, the spokes are a little different where the slot starts and stops and the rim itself is about 1" smaller.....

Are there more that just those three styles? What about the Datsun wheels? Differnte diameters?

I passed on a 14" Empi wheel because I was unsure of it being genuine since it measured 14-7/8",...my 15" wheel measures 15-7/8". any pros out there with infor would help.

What is the difference dimensionally in medium dished and deeply dished?

There is no such thing as a 14" wheel. There is the 380 (roughly 15") and the 400 (roughly 16"). I don't know why people insist on calling it a 14, probably the same reason they call it a GTV wheel when it's actually a GT wheel ::)

Good to know, so how many different Empi GT steering wheels were made? Just the three pictured, or did others use them too?

Datsun?

American Cars?

thanks,
p-

This is the ad I saw and started wondering....

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=1091428

Ask him to measure it, I bet it's 380mm (15").

I did,... it is.. 14-7/8" outside dia. That is what threw me.

Pretty close to 15".... and yet he still advertises it as a 14" wheel ::)

I have a Gt sport in my Cal-looker,they are just awesome.

I also have an Empi GT sport for a Datsun,i brought it for the airbag horn button,so if anyone is interested in the steering wheel let me know  :)

found this old post, just to confirm the Black Empi GT steering wheel

they were originally made in leather and not wood wrapped in leather?

confused

is it basically the same wheel as the flat 4 repro with a Datsun horn button?

(http://cal-look.no/lounge/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=20267.0;attach=64298;image)
(http://cal-look.no/lounge/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=2364.0;attach=7146;image)
(http://cal-look.no/lounge/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=2914.0;attach=9364;image)
(http://cal-look.no/lounge/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=15210.0;attach=49738;image)
(http://cal-look.no/lounge/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=3295.0;attach=10472;image)
(http://cal-look.no/lounge/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=5933.0;attach=18683;image)


no repro yet, correct?


here are some repro Datsun button
Repro button
http://page7.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/g99982172
http://page12.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/p316084980

interested in the leather wheel with datsun horn....

The top photo of the tan car seems to have a "cobbled together" wheel made from parts from different models.
A restained rim, hence the darker color wood.
And a reproduction Empi GT badge.

pupjoint & richard , the steering wheel is  flat 4 GT repop and the horn button came from a datsun or it came from nissan  ;)

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/401692_346317535397965_421011132_n.jpg)
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/395967_341351582561227_120113146_n.jpg)
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/409457_341351612561224_892451800_n.jpg)

thanks for the pics man.

the boss kit for the original leather GT is different from the flat4 correct?

The large padded hornbutton never had an Empi GT badge in the center, it was just the Empi globe logo.

i know that , but oli made something different ,  and how many chance did you have to found an empi globe logo ??? i'm still looking/searching  after one for my padded horn button  since several years , never found one  , yes one at the bug in 33 and it cost more than 250$ it's expensive for that item

There were 3 versions of the big button wheel. Leather wrapped, simulated " rose wood", and real wood.

does the leather wrap big button wheel share the same boss kit as the wooden/flat4?

No. Original EMPI big button wheels have a integral boss, non removable.

thanks!

Ok an education lesson for you.......

In Europe and ROW we have 12" to the foot = 300mm

In America (only America) you have 10" to the foot = 300mm

1" in Europe is 25.4mm our inches are imperial, the US are metric inchs

Hence when we talk about the size of our manhoods we are honest, you guys are not, hence tha US saying " is it in yet" that's why American girls like us Europeans lol  ;D

LOL that's funny Russell, I heard something similar to that but it had to do with the dragstrips over there.... I can't remember exactly but it had something to do with kilometers and miles.  Well, anyways they are supposed to be a 1/4 mile not a 1/4 kilometer!  No wonder they think they're cars are fast.    ;D ;D ;D

yeah but ours are at least not downhill...  :P

Whats the part number of the nissan/datsun pattern horn button...
Thx cedric

Cedric you will have more chance to ask olivier"relic" on fb , may be he still have the box  ;)

Thx will try to find him!