GT350R Steering Wheel Available Soon

[VoodooBoss]

Well if you wanted the red stripe at the top of your GT350 or S550 Mustang steering wheel Ford Performance will be offering the R steering wheel soon. I was thinking about adding this to my race red GT350 TP. Frankly I'm surprised Ford didn't put a white stripe at the top of the non R's.

https://fordperformanceracingparts.com/parts/part_details.asp?PartKeyField=25908

 

[Champale]

If there is some way to put a 350 or 350R wheel on a Boss and still keep the airbag functionality, I hope someone does it and can show us how. I don't even care about hooking up the phone/radio buttons as long as no warning lights come one.

Anyone going to be the guinea pig???

 

[mattlqx]

Frankly I'm surprised Ford didn't put a white stripe at the top of the non R's.

Well, the hash is the same material as the bottom of the wheel. If they used white for the hash, that's yet another material to stock. And the aesthetics of nothing else being white. I don't mind the subdued difference. It's still noticeable but not in your face about it.

 

[VoodooBoss]

If there is some way to put a 350 or 350R wheel on a Boss and still keep the airbag functionality, I hope someone does it and can show us how. I don't even care about hooking up the phone/radio buttons as long as no warning lights come one.

Anyone going to be the guinea pig???

You? ;D I doubt it's going to fit but give Ford Performance a call next week and see if it will. The wheel on the Boss and S197 cars are too big and too thin. The new wheel is much nicer.

 

[Jabooh]

If it fits I might try this. I am not a fan of the boss wheel.

 

[F.D. Sako]

If it fits I might try this. I am not a fan of the boss wheel.

Yes! Not a fan of the huge boss wheel as well. Only problem with the smaller 350 wheel is, if it fits, that it'll block the gauges even more with my seating position.

 

[TMSBOSS]

A picture showing both wheels side by side could be useful.

 

[Jabooh]

I found a thread on another forum that indicated the GT350 wheel bolts right up.

 

[Champale]

Jabooh - link please! Very curious to read what all the swap entails. Thank you.

 

[VoodooBoss]

I found a thread on another forum that indicated the GT350 wheel bolts right up.

Cool, the R wheel with red highlights will look awesome in your LS. I think you'll need to purchase the buttons, which might be expensive, otherwise you'll have large holes in the wheel. Maybe look for a 2015+ Mustang steering wheel from a recycling yard.

 

[Jabooh]

Link removed as it was a swap on s550. :-[ :-[

 

[Jabooh]

Just looked. Buttons are totally different.

 

[Champale]

Hey Jabooh - thank you for posting it but correct me if I am wrong - that thread appears to be a guy who put a GT350 wheel on his S550?

 

[Jabooh]

Yeah. I missed that. I guess I was too excited!!!! :-[

 

[ford20]

Looking at the writeup on M6G I looks to be damn near impossible to do as the means to connect the S197 wheels are vastly different.

 

[Jabooh]

Hmmmm. Maybe someone that can fabricate things can get a cheap s550 wheel and test. I'm willing to donate some money.

 

[Jabooh]

They guy on svtp has a 2015 and had (don't now if he still has) a 2012. I sent him a msg to see if he could determine if it would swap to the 2012.

 

[ford20]

You may be able to but you are going to have to drill into the side of the steering wheel and create bolts for the side like these ones. It should still use the center 24mm bolt like the S197 models but then you have to deal with a new airbag and the airbag tabs are different on the S197 and the S550 models.

 

[Champale]

Thank you Sean and Jabooh for those posts. I think if it requires a different airbag and such, I am not interested. Heck, what am I saying - I have a Takata airbag in my car, for goodness sake!

 

[VoodooBoss]

Here's an install video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNXZ4UEyBsc