IWINULUZ

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I have a 93 and would like to remove my SRS system. I have already removed the crush sensors on my core support. Trying to locate my SRS ECU in the vehicle. Anything else i need to remove or should be careful while removing? Also will a complete system removal cut off my dash srs light? If not what is the best way to get this light out?

cptpain

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You should look into your states laws about removing ABS from a vehicle. Especially if its something they look for on vehicle inspection.

I highly advise against removing the airbag, you'll never know when you'll need it, and you'll regret removing it if you get into a wreck

IWINULUZ

iTrader: (10)

SRS not ABS. I'm thanks. State law doesn't like my car as it is. Although i see air bags more dangerous than beneficial. Also i will be caged, and strapped up with four points soon enough.

Ruler_Mark

iTrader: (16)

drivers side under the dash you will see the box with the two connections going to it. if i remember right they are blue

IWINULUZ

iTrader: (10)

Great thanks. Blue and safety orange i think

cptpain

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I heard the same thing from a guy who had a decent looking Celica GT with the TRD body pieces.

A few weeks later he was in a head on collision (not his fault) and his head went straight into the wheel putting him in a 2 week coma.

He said he doesnt wear seatbelts (which is illegal in texas) after saying some BS story about being in a rollover accident, and he doesnt believe in airbags because he said he saw his friend break his neck removing an airbag once.

whatever your reasoning is for removing the airbag(s), you're already running the risk of worse injury to yourself with a cage and harness.

Being that my mother and best friend are trauma nurses, i hear stories of people with neck and head injuries who run a cage and harness.
The hospital administrator who attends road course events in his Hennessey Viper even says that in an accident with a cage and harness you're pretty much centralizing the violent motions of an wreck to your head and neck. And running a helmet is still leaving your neck open to severe injury. And these sorts of injuries almost never have full recovery.
He says unless you're going to run a HANS device, you're not going to see much benefit of driving a street car with a cage and harness.

I've seen pictures of some pretty bruised up and swollen faces when an airbag deploys in a wreck, and those injuries are healed up rather quickly.

Hearing these stories and seeing photos made me think twice about putting a cage and harness in my own FD.

Yea you're going to be pretty fucked up for a while in an accident, but the pain is temporary compared to the small pains and headaches you'll have for the rest of your life.


Just take that as a word of advice, please.

IWINULUZ

iTrader: (10)

Thanks for the insight. But if you don't do what you want while you're alive then when are you going to do it?

cptpain

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Because you only live once, and theres always a time and place for everything.

I've owned a few cars with cages in them before and after install.... once the cage went in, they immediately went from being driven every day of the week to about once every other weekend.
The novelty of driving a car with a cage got old QUICK FAST IN-A-HURRY.
You see all these drag cars in Drag Week with cages and seats with no padding except the pillows you brought and you really start to wonder exactly how comfortable these people are.
Once me and my dad built a car that could run 10's and decided to attend Drag Week, we both quickly found out. In the first leg of the trip my dad had back issues (compounding his already messed up back) and my pelvis and tailbone might as well have been powder. Not to mention the fact that the reclining buckets had to stay almost vertical because we had an 8 point cage.

Everyone says what you just said.... but here's the catch22.... if you're broken or dead... how are going to be able to repeatedly enjoy it again and again and again?
Its the SMART people.

Once you put a cage in your FD, you're going to be hyped up about having a cage and you'll drive it like always with a little more pride in your gut, and then about 2 weeks later you'll actually be debating whether you want to take the FD or the daily driver out to get a hair cut or to the movies.... it starts slowly.

And then you come across those who daily drive their caged cars and you'll soon hear them cracking every joint in their body, mostly their necks and backs, because they are driving a road course car with stupid stiff suspension as a daily driver and they comment it as driving it like a "BAUS" .... no its stupid.

I've been there and done that before joy riding in my dads and gramp's muscle cars, thinking back I loved it, but realistically im surprised the only issue i have is now I end up cracking my back whenever I get really tense

IWINULUZ

iTrader: (10)

Thanks for caring....seriously. But I'm here for tech support in the matter of removing my SRS system. I put my big boy pants on and my thinking cap, did my research and i have come to the conclusion that i would like to still remove the system. If you have any knowledge in regards to doing so please share. Otherwise please don't thread jack with hypothetical situations. Thanks......seriously

prew

iTrader: (9)

If you remove all the wiring for the airbags, be careful you don't eliminate the horn.

IWINULUZ

iTrader: (10)

The horn wires "mesh" with the SRS system wires? If so where on the car or harness?

bufferovrflo

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When you remove the airbag from the steering wheel you'll see they share a same clip, but after the wheel on the column they split again. I clipped the SRS wire and kept the horn wire.

IWINULUZ

iTrader: (10)

Alright good to know

prew

iTrader: (9)

If you are planning to remove the airbag wiring there is more to it than that. I would trace the horn wire just to be careful if you doing more than clipping the airbag wire like suggested above.

IWINULUZ

iTrader: (10)

I just want to know how to do a clean removal of the complete SRS system. Without losing horn or an other feature