tayst

does anyone know how or where i can install an airbag on a 1987 rx7 gxl? Anywhere in frisco?

casio

did any 2nd gen come with an airbag anywhere? if not, i imagine you could use another car's steering wheel/airbag and all electrical (though i dont know exactly how they work; i dont know if they have anything to do with a cpu). good luck and be sure to disconnect the battery. i heard of people dying from those things (and not when the car was driving). true? i have no idea. but be careful!
in fact, to hell with the airbag. i'm scared to death of 'em. then again, some people don't wear seatbelts.

Madrx7racer

why would you want to? you'd need the airbag system, electronics, and computer, along with the sensors that activate it. sell ur GXL and buy a 91 vert if you want airbags.

Jodoolin

Casio, my '90 vert has a driver's side airbag. Believe only verts came with them. Not sure what years had them. The instrument cluster surround and steering wheel cowling ar different than the coups.

trainwreck517

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I think only S5 verts came with them.

WonkoTheSane

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Good, you vert folks can keep the damn things..

I personally do not like them. I have heard/know of too many stories of people getting seriously injured/losing their sight/or dying because of them.

Of course, I always wear my seatbelt, so I'm not as concerned about the accidents as if i didn't. But when I get a new car, I do belive i'm going to take out the airbags...

Icemark

1. There are not after market air bags.

2. The stock system Gen 1 SRS/air bag in the 90-91 convertible would not work in any coupe without major rewiring (and probably custom building the front harness of the car to do so).

3. Airbags are probably one of the most dangerous devices ever put into a car, and should be banned by the Federal government. Explosive devices have no place 12-24 inchs from my face.

Anyone wanting to install one, may wish to read the radically high number of reports of serious injury from people driving and injured by air bags. Air bags were simply put into cars, because many people in the USA were too lame to put on seatbelts.

Aaron Cake

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That is some of the most fundamentally stupid advice I have heard in a long time...You admit that you don't know exactly how an airbag system works, yet you suggest getting one from another car?!?

Airbag systems are tuned (though experimentation....crash tests) to perfectly suite the car they are installed in. Transplanting one to another car, if you even accomplished this, would result in unpredictable behaviour. The bag could go off if you tapped the curb, someone kicked your bumper, or even if you hit a big pothole. Also, removing/reinstalling the bag itself is a dangerous operation. It is opened with an explosive charge, and can (and has) been set off via static charges. Leave this stuff to a prop.
Maybe I'm just weird, but I'm much more concerned about the 50+ litres of gasoline a few feet from my back...Considering that each gallong of gas stores the equivelant energy of 4 sticks of dynomite.

j9fd3s

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i'm a #3 guy too. if you put an airbag on the ground face down and set it off it will fly 3-4 stories into the air!

it is quite literally a bomb, that they put close to your face. they cannot even ship airbags by air (legally), as its illegal to put a bomb in a plane.

gasolines not a ton of fun either, but it usually will just burn slowly and not explode

Tovock

lol i had one go off in my face the other day. luckily i knew it was coming... i work at an insurance auction yard so i see wrecked cars all day long.. newer airbags arent bad but old ones are scary we have a lot of fatalities come in from minor fender benders..

casio

no, please, tell me how you really feel. i have no intent to ever install an airbag, but i dont see how they can be so vehicle specific. people coming in different shapes and sizes, heights, moving seat forward or backward, even tilt steering, and with all that its still at a perfect angle? you may be right, but i think it sounds somewhat universal.
sorry, dont go swapping airbags.

casio

i am assuming you either have never tried this, or are referring to a different airbag. i've set one off before, it flew about maybe one and a half stories into the air. it was a gen1 miata airbag (there's plenty of these things from miatas going spec racing).

casio

whats there to be concerned about? i would think it would have to be a rather serious situation before the gasoline becomes any danger.