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extrashaky: OK, J-Luth wheel mention seems steering conversation a bit to offtopic to another product, but that smaller diameter .. i actually like it and prefer that way (i have that wheel too), there are people that wish it that way of smaller/thicker steering wheel, and large portion of aftermarket steering wheels are such (eg. TRD one, that is smaller (but w/o offset), and it also helps a bit to reach from offset-ed wheel light&wipers stalks without taking hands from the wheel, and slightly but also nets extra room for knee movement.
This spacer is more meant for performance driving, as helps with getting seating pose ergonomics right for eg. heal & toe, or when you need extra headroom with helmet and lean back of seat for that. And at performance driving it's better to not use bad habits such as not driving with both hands on wheel (as it robs from fine control/precision and reduces force you can apply to wheel for quick maneuvers (that may matter also for DD, for emergency steer around unexpected obstacle for example)). Yes, many are guilty of such habits (also eg. resting hand on shifter, or driving with misadjusted seat, or hands on wheel at wrong positions, and so on), but nevertheless it's wrong (and when i took up HPDE as one of hobbies, now i'm trying to unlearn several of such bad DD habbits in addition to learning just techniques).
I could adjust wheel & seat "right" for daily driving, when w/o helmet, it's when i got on track i hated steering wheel being too far (or seat too close and as result non ergonomic leg position).
I'm slightly confused, if you had budget for J-Luth wheel .. why all complaining about cost of this spacer? :/. Imho it's priced right, and it's good to encourage good vendors that start making something others didn't bother, so that they can recoup R&D costs, make profit and keep designing/making other quality products for us. Actually, if someone will make copies NOW, that would rather make me think worse of such copycats (probably from china), and i'd prefer to support/endorse makers of original, then eg. to save $50.
BTW, imho aluminium billet is also material i'd prefer to see for that spacer material. Steering is one of most important controls in car, if there had been used plastic .. maybe i'm too cautious, but i'd prefer to have there something more i can trust near important control, near several safety things like possibly steering angle sensor/airbag. Spaced out due leverage may also add some less rigidity in construction.

Emilio, Ed: have you guys considered on making v2 spacer that would consist of two spacer halves, or simply cut spacer in half (haven't seen yet it's internal pics, so don't know if it's possible) prior applying coating/finish, or you evaluated that it would overcomplicate making it and increase it's costs (or can one order custom one of 20-30mm thickness)? Way i see, if it had been from two halves (to add flexibility in offset choice with using just one of or both, according to what offset one prefers), and would work also for someone like me, whose steering wheel is at some offset already.