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nice work, here is the parts catalog pic for the airbag stuff
Thanks, I'm not sure if I'll bother to restore the airbag system. Best I can tell, I'm missing the front sensors circled in yellow in the annotated diagram below, and I think I'm missing that yellow highlighted wiring harness, unless it's tucked under the fender somehow? Is any of that stuff still available from Mazda and how spendy is it?
For the time being though, I really need to deactivate the "live" bag in my Nardi wheel so it can't accidentally deploy itself at random! Any thoughts on how to do that? IIRC, I think the connector on the airbag has a shorting plug that you substitute for the harness connector so the airbag can be safely handled & shipped?
Stuff I'm missing is highlighted in yellow in diagram.
i think you could just unplug it? to ship an airbag, Mazda would have us deploy it first, which was always exciting.
the end setup, was to put it face up in one of the cages the parts come in, with a cartoon spec lead to the box with the handle on it. its a big bang, usually it would clear out the building as people came to see what that noise was (the service driveway had a roof that was kind of low too, so trucks would occasionally hit it)
the first setup was to put the airbag face down, and set it off, which had it go ~40 feet up in the air and come down next door on a bunch of new Dodges, that was over 30 years ago, they are still mad about that one!
You can remove the charge from the airbag if you are concern about accidental deployment, they are hold down by 4x 7mm nuts. Just be mindful when you press the horn if you do remove the charge, because the housing is now hollow so it might dent if you press too hard.
You can remove the charge from the airbag if you are concern about accidental deployment, they are hold down by 4x 7mm nuts. Just be mindful when you press the horn if you do remove the charge, because the housing is now hollow so it might dent if you press too hard.
Thanks for the tip. For now I just disconnected the airbag electrical connector and secured it out or the way. As the FSM excerpt in the previous post shows, simply disconnecting the connector shorts the airbag's electrical terminals, so you'll never have any electrical charge/voltage across them to cause the bag to deploy.
Years ago when I disconnected mine, I'd read up enough about airbags deploying accidentally when disconnected that I got paranoid and wore my helmet and neck roll to do it, lol.
I finally got around to painting & finishing up building the RC FD that my son got me for Christmas! Here's some pictures of the finished build.
Front view, lights off Front view, lights ON. Hard to see here but the amber turn signals are washed out by brighter white LED driving lights Front 3/4 view, lights on Rear 3/4 view, lights on
Plan was to paint this to match my real FD, but that wasn't too easy since the PO painted my FD in a custom blended color - a shade of Honda "nighthawk black" that was blended with a purple pigment instead of the OEM dark blue pigment recipe. After lots of searching on the internet, I found what I though would be a pretty close approximation in the form of a rattle can touch-up paint used on 2009~2012ish Jaguar F-types called Amethyst Black, paint code PVS. From the pictures I've seen, that color looks very similar to my FD - pure black when it's cloudy out, but the dark purple pops out when the sun hits it. Looks better on metal than it does on a plastic RC car though, which looks more like a shiny black.
The stickers for the windows were a PITA to apply, and I managed to bugger up the rear hatch glass - that can be fixed later with some dark smoke window tint trimmed to fit. I also decided to build this with the pop-up lids down (kit has you building it with the pop-up lids up), and I modified the light kit so it would illuminate just the tails & '99 spec front driving lights.
01-13-24, 09:56 AM
