MOMO MOD.07 vs. MOD.08 vs. MOD.78: Understanding MOMO Racing Steering Wheels

MOMO's MOD series is where the racing side of the catalog lives, and the naming doesn't help you much — MOD.07, MOD.08 and MOD.78 sound like generations of the same wheel, but they're three genuinely different tools. Two of them are defined by how deep they sit, and one is defined by how it fits your hands.

All three are $279 at the time of writing, so price isn't the tiebreaker. Here's what actually separates them.

The Quick Comparison

• MOD.07 — 350 mm, 70 mm dish, rally-inspired traditional round rim. Smooth or suede leather.
• MOD.08 — 350 mm, extra-deep 90 mm dish. MOMO's best-selling racing wheel. Smooth or suede leather.
• MOD.78 — 320 or 350 mm, ergonomic rim, aluminum spokes. Black leather or suede.

Put simply: pick the MOD.08 when you need the wheel to come to you, the MOD.07 when you need some of that but not all of it, and the MOD.78 when your seating position is already sorted and you want the grip and the size choice instead.

MOMO MOD.07 350 mm · 70 mm dish $279.00 Shop on Enzuca →

MOMO MOD.08 350 mm · 90 mm dish $279.00 Shop on Enzuca →

MOMO MOD.78 320 or 350 mm $279.00 Shop on Enzuca →

MOD.08: When You Need the Wheel Closer

The MOD.08 is one of MOMO's best-selling wheels, and the reason is that 90 mm dish. In an older car — or any car where you've fitted a fixed-back seat and suddenly find yourself reaching — the deep dish brings the rim to you without adding a stack of spacers behind the hub.

That matters more than it sounds. A proper driving position means shoulders against the seatback with a bend at the elbow at the top of the wheel. If you can only reach the rim by leaning forward, you lose leverage, you lose seat feedback, and you fatigue faster over a session. The MOD.08 fixes that geometrically instead of with hardware.

The 350 mm diameter is deliberate too — it gives you enough leverage for cars without power steering, which describes most of the classics people fit these to.

Pick the MOD.08 if: you're building a classic, running a fixed-back race seat, or you've ever thought "I wish this wheel were two inches closer."

MOD.07: The Rally Middle Ground

The MOD.07 is rally-inspired, with a traditional round rim and a 70 mm dish. That's still a deep wheel by any normal standard — it does the same job as the MOD.08, just less aggressively.

The traditional round rim is the other distinction. Where the MOD.78 and MOD.88 use shaped, anatomic grip sections, the MOD.07 keeps a consistent round profile all the way around. That's a real advantage if you use a lot of hand-over-hand or shuffle steering — rally driving, autocross, anything where your hands move around the rim rather than staying fixed at nine and three.

Pick the MOD.07 if: you want meaningful dish but the MOD.08 would put the wheel in your lap, or if your steering technique involves your hands moving around the rim.

MOMO MOD.07 — Leather or Suede $279.00 Shop on Enzuca →

MOMO MOD.69 — 350 mm, 39 mm dish $279.00 Shop on Enzuca →

If even 70 mm is more than you need, the MOD.69 runs a modest 39 mm dish at 350 mm, wrapped in suede with finger grooves moulded into the back of the rim. MOMO positions it for sedans and GT race cars, and it's the right answer when the factory wheel position was already close to correct.

MOD.78: The Size Choice and the Grip

The MOD.78 approaches the problem differently. Instead of leading with dish, it leads with fit — an ergonomic rim profile, light but strong aluminum spokes, and a choice of 320 mm or 350 mm.

That 320 mm option is the interesting part for track drivers. In a car with power steering, dropping 30 mm of diameter meaningfully quickens your steering inputs, which is worth having when you're catching slides or making mid-corner corrections. In a car without assist, the extra effort at 320 mm gets tiring, and you should stay at 350 mm.

MOMO positions the MOD.78 for GT and sedan race cars, and it works equally well in a street-driven build. It's the most versatile of the three.

Pick the MOD.78 if: your seating position is already right, you want to choose your diameter, or you want the shaped grip that keeps your hands consistently located.

Bonus: The MOD.88 Adds a Flat Bottom

Worth knowing if you're already looking at the MOD.78 — the MOD.88 takes the same anatomic shape and feel and adds a flat bottom for extra leg clearance. The ovalized 27x35 mm grip is wrapped in high-quality suede for maximum grip, and like the MOD.78 it comes in 320 mm or 350 mm.

The flat bottom is not a styling gimmick in a race car. If you're wearing a helmet and HANS device, strapped into a fixed-back seat with the seat rails low, the extra thigh clearance getting in and out is a real quality-of-life improvement over a whole season.

MOMO MOD.88 — Flat Bottom, 320 or 350 mm $279.00 Shop on Enzuca →

MOMO MOD.80 — 2 Integrated Racing Buttons $309.00 Shop on Enzuca →

Leather or Suede for Track Use

All three wheels are offered in smooth leather or suede, and for a dedicated track car suede is the better choice — it grips far better through gloves and stays grippy when your hands are sweaty at the end of a 25-minute session.

The trade-off is wear. Suede polishes and darkens under bare-handed use much faster than leather does. If the car is a dual-purpose street and track build that you also drive to work, leather is the more sensible long-term call even though it gives up some grip.

If You Need Buttons

Race cars accumulate switches. The MOD.80 builds two integrated racing control buttons into an anatomic-grip wheel, available in smooth or suede leather, and the MOD.30 with racing buttons does the same on MOMO's more aggressively styled suede wheel for lightweight sports cars.

If you'd rather keep the wheel you've already chosen, the MOMO Carbon Fiber Accessory Plate sandwiches between the wheel and the hub adapter, takes up to four buttons, and is only 2.5 mm thick so it barely changes your wheel position. It's drilled for all 6-bolt MOMO and similar wheels.

Don't Forget the Hub

None of these wheels bolt straight to a steering column. You need a vehicle-specific hub adapter, and on a track car it's worth using the proper MOMO unit — the adapters use a collapsible design that absorbs impact energy through engineered deformation rather than transmitting it straight into the column.

MOMO adapters fit MOMO, Sparco and most other 6-bolt wheels, but not Nardi or Personal. Browse the full range in our MOMO Steering Wheel Hubs & Adapters collection, and if you run multiple drivers or want the wheel off between sessions, look at a bolt-on quick release as well.

MOMO Carbon Fiber Accessory Plate — up to 4 buttons $169.00 Shop on Enzuca →

OMP Steering Wheel Quick Release — Bolt On $449.00 Shop on Enzuca →

The Bottom Line

Decide on dish first, because it's the one thing you can't fix later without hardware. If the wheel needs to move toward you, go MOD.08 for the full 90 mm or MOD.07 for a more measured 70 mm. If your position is already right, the MOD.78 gives you the diameter choice and the ergonomic grip — and the MOD.88 adds a flat bottom on top of that.

See the full lineup in our MOMO Steering Wheels collection.