Steering Wheel Problem!

[apjmartin]

Hello all,

I'm new on this site as well as being new to kit cars so please excuse any naivety and/or stupid questions!

I want to buy a used 7-type car and recently tried sitting in a Tiger Avon. Nice car (if a little heavy at 950kg) but I could not safely drive it as the bottom of the steering wheel fouled on my knees. Does anyone know if there is a difference between the steering wheel height on the Tiger Avon and a factory built Tiger Super 6 as I don't want to waste my time, and that of the seller if the same problem will present itself? I am 6ft 4in and 16-odd stone so I'm not waif. Are there any cars out there with adjustable steering columns?

Cheers,
Ant

[Furyblade_Lee]

950kg?????? JEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESUS! What did he panel it with, lead?
That cannot be right surely? If it is, save some money and buy a 2.0 Sierra, throw the carpets and trim out and you will get the same adrenalin rush. A 7 esq should be between 400 and 650kgs, they are about the two extremes. Most are somewhere in the middle.


Seriously, i do not know any 7'esq with adjustible column. But should be possible to modify and lift column by means of a new bracket near the dashboard. And a smaller wheel. There is no need for a wheel diameter of more than 300 - 330mm for a light car. But that is NOT a light car.....

[apjmartin]

Thanks for your reply.

I know what you mean about the weight and I had to double check it. It was on the plate in the engine bay and one of the MOT or SVA forms the chap had with the car - front axle 450kg, rear 500kg!!

I assume that if I changed the steering column bracket on one already built then I'd possible have to change the dashboard to acommodate this?

[Furyblade_Lee]

Do not worry about that plate! I thinkit is just design axle weight limits for SVA, it will not be that heavy! Probobly 600kg max but probobly less.

[Furyblade_Lee]

RE: the dashboard, it is is a kit car so the dash mods will only probobly require a dremmel type tool and a hacksaw.

[Gumstabber]

Mine says roughly the same on the plate. I remember from my SVA that with me in it it weighed 720kg, therefore my car weighs 630kg wet.

i had the same problem with the wheel and my left leg when turning corners/trying to correct a slide. I have long legs and short arms so had a friend machine a 50mm spacer to bring the wheel closer to me (and hence avoiding my knees) and also bought a smaller wheel - 265mm diameter. If the car s dashboard is anything like my westfields .ie. a piece of covered aluminium, then it should be easy to make up a spacer and adjust the dash.