Is it time to replace your race suit? Let’s get you track-ready. The Complete B-G and MOMO Suzuki Steering Wheel Hub Guide
Suzuki is the make where reading the listing title properly matters most. I am Cameron, I look after the steering wheel side of things at GSM Performance, and the Suzuki range trips more people up than anything else on the site.
Here is why. The Jimny MK3 takes one of two hubs depending on whether your column has 30 splines or 36. The Samurai has four different hubs across its life, including one for the Clacxon Laterale cars. The Swift runs across five generations and changes part at least three times. None of that is obvious from the badge on the back of the car.
Below is every B-G and MOMO Suzuki hub we hold, what each one covers, and the wheels that bolt to them.
The in-car photograph in this guide is an AI illustration, generated from our own MOMO Prototipo product photography so the wheel and its horn button are the real thing.
Why you need a B-G or MOMO boss kit
An aftermarket wheel will not bolt onto a Suzuki column on its own. The column has splines, the back of the wheel has a bolt pattern, and the boss kit is the part that joins the two. It also sets how far the wheel sits from the dash, which in a cabin as tight as a Jimny or a Samurai makes a real difference to your knee room.
Both brands machine theirs from cast aluminium and put the fixing screws, the Allen key and the horn button retaining ring in the box, so nothing is missing halfway through the job. The B-G kits are made in Italy and drilled twice, for 6 x 70mm and 6 x 74mm. The MOMO kits are drilled 6 x 70mm.
It joins two different fittings
Your column has splines. The back of the wheel has a bolt pattern. The hub is the only part that speaks both.
It sets how far the wheel sits
The hub decides the distance from the dash, which changes your reach to the indicator stalks and the clearance over your knees.
Nothing else to buy
The fixing screws, the Allen key and the horn button retaining ring are all in the box, so nothing stops you halfway through the job.
The Jimny MK3 is the one to be careful with. There are two hubs for it, BG8203 for a 30 spline column and BG8202 for 36. Count the splines on your column before you order, because the two parts look identical in a photograph and only one of them will go on.
The Samurai is much the same. Four listings cover it: pre-1995, 1996 onward, the 4x4 up to 1990, and the Clacxon Laterale cars with the horn on the stalk. Match the year and the horn arrangement to the listing rather than guessing, and if you are not sure, send us the registration and we will check it.
Steering wheel installation explained
So how does a Sparco wheel end up on a MOMO hub? Because nearly every aftermarket motorsport wheel is drilled to the same pattern, six bolts on a 70mm circle, written as 6 x 70mm PCD. MOMO, Sparco, OMP, Simoni Racing and the Mountney M-Range all use it. The hub is chosen by your car, the wheel is chosen by you, and nothing locks you into one brand.
MOMO, Sparco, OMP, Simoni Racing and the Mountney M-Range.
Nardi, Personal and Raid.
Fitting it, in order
- 1Hub onto the column
- 2Wheel onto the hub
- 3Horn wire onto the tab
- 4Retaining ring holds the horn button
How each brand drills its hubs
The full Suzuki B-G boss kit range
Twenty B-G hubs cover the Suzuki range and they all sit at the same money, from the LJ80 and the Fronte through to the Jimny MK3 and the later Vitara. This is the complete list.
Several of them are the same part under different names. BG8009 is one hub sold under six listings: the Alto from 1982 to 1993, the Carry, the Cervo, the Cultus SA310, the Fronte and the pre-1987 Swift. BG8120 covers both the pre-1992 Sidekick and the pre-1990 Vitara, and BG8118 does the Jimny SJ30 and the LJ80. If your model is not listed but a sister car is, ask before you rule it out.
Our top MOMO Suzuki boss kit collection
Ten MOMO hubs, all collapsible, all drilled 6 x 70mm. This is where the Swift is best served, with four listings covering 1988 through to 2017.
MK8904 is the workhorse of the Suzuki range and turns up under the Maruti, the Sierra, the pre-1995 SJ410 and SJ413 and the pre-1992 Vitara. MC8911 covers the 1996 onward SJ410 and SJ413 as well as the 1991 to 2003 Swift, and MK8930R does the Swift IV and the Swift V.
Explore our full range of B-G and MOMO boss kits
The links here run a live search across the store, so they stay current as the range moves. OMP make Suzuki hubs too and they pick up cars the other two do not, including the Swift Sport 1.6 from 2007 and the Swift from 2011 onward. Those are a solid, non-collapsible design, which is what most track and competition cars run. If your Suzuki is not showing up in any of the three ranges, ask. Several of these cars share a column with a model that is listed, and we can usually work it out from the registration.
B-G Racing
20 Suzuki hubs
Dual drilled and made in Italy. Twenty hubs from the LJ80 and Fronte through to the Jimny MK3 and later Vitara.
View the B-G Racing Suzuki range
MOMO
10 Suzuki hubs
Collapsible and drilled 6 x 70mm. Best coverage of the Swift, across four generations.
View the MOMO Suzuki range
OMP
7 Suzuki hubs
A solid, non collapsible design. Picks up the Swift Sport 1.6 and the Swift from 2011.
View the OMP Suzuki rangeWhy not add a steering wheel quick release kit
A quick release sits between the boss kit and the wheel and lets you pull the wheel off the column in a second. Two reasons people fit them. Getting in and out past a fixed wheel in a caged car is awkward, and a wheel that comes off with you is a wheel nobody can drive away with.
B-G Racing do four. The universal and the standard bolt-on versions suit most road and track cars and need nothing modifying. The weld-on 3-point and 6-point are for a car where the column is being cut and welded anyway. All four take the same 6 x 70mm wheels as everything else on this page.
Pair your boss kit with a high performance steering wheel
Once the hub is sorted the wheel is entirely your choice. These are the ones I would put in a Suzuki, and I have kept a spread of diameter and dish because a Jimny and a Swift Sport want quite different things.
In a Jimny or a Samurai I would go for the Prototipo, either the 350mm or the 370mm, because a bigger rim suits the slow steering and the upright driving position. In a Swift Sport something smaller and flatter like the Sparco 345 or the OMP Corsica gives you quicker hands without making the car heavy to park.
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Every wheel we sell is drilled 6 x 70mm, so any of them will bolt to any of the hubs above. The only real decision is diameter and dish, which changes how heavy the steering feels and how close the rim sits to your chest.
Final thoughts
Between B-G, MOMO and OMP there is a Suzuki hub for nearly everything, from a 1980 Fronte to a 2017 Swift V. The part is cheap next to the wheel, and the whole job comes down to matching the model, the year and, on a Jimny MK3, the spline count.
If you are stuck between two listings, drop us a line and ask for me. Send the registration over and I will tell you which hub you need before you spend anything.
Cameron