FS: 914-6 GT/ 911RS Steering Wheel on Ebay

[mfitton]

Not mine. Anyone know what the story is on this wheel says it has the plastic light weight butterfly horn pad.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Porsche-911-ST ... 6016.l4276

[Slope330]

Completely insane price,going rate in line above this ad....... can’t even see Porsche part number showing what it came off.............maybe misprint?

[yoda]

That is the same wheel and horn pad I have on my car. Pricing does seem a tad optimistic so I would sell you mine for 10% less ( - ;

[Lightweight_911]

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The seller's description is fairly accurate & the price does seem crazy but ....

An original lightweight plastic ('butterfly' as opposed to 'bowtie')* hornpad is a very rare part & rarely seen for sale - especially if it is not cracked which most were/are - so that on its own is a valuable item to the owner of an early 2.7RS that doesn't have their original part.

As for the steering wheel - for reference, I sold a similar original 'RSR' wheel - complete with the original Factory Racing Dept invoice - back in 2008 for ~$3000. It was bought by a long standing member of the Early S Registry for his RS & the car still wears that wheel to this day.

So, given the above, maybe the price isn't as ridiculous as we might first think ....


* these 2 terms are often swapped unknowingly/incorrectly

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[yoda]

That’s very interesting Andy. My wheel has the same part number but the finish looks different so I presume it has been re-covered at some stage. I think I am going to swap the horn pad over for my spare one!

[Lightweight_911]

That’s very interesting Andy. My wheel has the same part number but the finish looks different so I presume it has been re-covered at some stage. I think I am going to swap the horn pad over for my spare one!

Feroz - '803.10' was the part number for a std 380mm plastic ('ebonite') 914/6 steering wheel.

It is that version that was used by the Factory as the basis for the 'double wrapped' thick-rim 'RSR' leather wheels.

Many people have subsequently taken an 803.10 plastic wheel & had it wrapped (most commonly in the US by Don at Dallas Custom Steering Wheel in Texas) to mimic the Factory's version ...

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[yoda]

Thanks Andy. That makes sense and is probably what I have. I have an old receipt from Freisinger Motorsport for the wheel for about EUR 2500 and I suspected it was the Freisinger mark up, could be that they were charging a premium for the horn pad?

Every day is a school day.

[Slope330]

I think u ll find proper 911 Rs wheels can cost almost anything these days,a mutual friend of ours in St Albans sold one ,no hub,for abt £3000
I did not know there were different butterfly’s until reading Andy’s post
Most wheels come off 914 s ,just drill extra whole to mount.........
I reckon ur chances with invoice from freissinger cud be the real thing!

[Lightweight_911]

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If you have one of the early plastic butterfly hornpads that's a rare part.

They are/were quite fragile as I said previously & they often cracked early in their life - probably why the Factory resorted to fitting the standard hornpad to 2.7RS models after a fairly brief period.

The weight saving was fairly minimal anyway !

They do surface occasionally - sellers sometimes not realising what they have as the number on the back was the same for both versions ...

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[Cookie]

I have just paid £1000 for a RS steering wheel which needs restoring for a first 500 vehicle. I need a plastic horn push. I am currently having one scanned and 3D printed should anyone be interested. If anyone has a plastic one for sale please get in touch. My customer is not prepared to pay that much for one. Andy knows as much as I do that they are so rare .

[inaglasshouse]

Have to admire the dedication to weight saving... although a nice pair of alloy trailing arms probably made more of a difference when they arrived (the following year?)

[210bhp]

Unless I’m missing something in the description or the photos I see no evidence of the correct first series RS horn batwing in that eBay ad.
I only see a standard butterfly horn push.

Regards
Mike

[Cookie]

If you look on the back of the horn push in the photo you will see a part number, its all in the number !!

[Lightweight_911]

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The (casting ?) number on the back of both the metal & plastic versions is the same:

901.613.805.0

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[yoda]

Yes, same part number on both. One is all plastic and the other has metal frame surrounds and is much cooler to touch. I have both and didn’t realise they were different - I guess you wouldn’t unless you were looking.