Race seats

[Bridgie]

What's the story with the Air Bag going off? Was it going over track rumble strips? Was it hard braking? Was the anti Crash alarm? Why the hell would the air bags deploy? Just because the seat is not detected? If Mustang (Mach 1, GT350/500 are track cars) Ford had to figure people would replace the seats just like the Ford Performance School cars.

Can someone explain this? Just trying to understand what the hell Ford was thinking.

Story was going off at VIR, head on into Tire wall at around 80.
Avoiding another car, slick tires and wet mud = no stopping.

Even though none of the seat harnesses are connected, only the passenger side senses someone there, this can be bypassed with a Bladder connected.
So the default is there must be a driver, but no passenger. Only the drivers side inflated, due to all the crash sensors and logic I guess. My airbag light is constantly on (which doesn’t bother me)

I didn’t come close to the bag as I have 6 point and Hans..

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[WCRookie99]

Story was going off at VIR, head on into Tire wall at around 80.
Avoiding another car, slick tires and wet mud = no stopping.

Even though none of the seat harnesses are connected, only the passenger side senses someone there, this can be bypassed with a Bladder connected.
So the default is there must be a driver, but no passenger. Only the drivers side inflated, due to all the crash sensors and logic I guess. My airbag light is constantly on (which doesn’t bother me)

I didn’t come close to the bag as I have 6 point and Hans..

Ok, that's different. You hit something and the Air Bag goes off, as it should.

Hum, it appears people are saying, if you take the seats out the Air Bag will go off, just driving around. We all know the light will come on if you take out the seats. 6x Threads with the resister fix. Got that.

I'm trying to clarify, if you take the seats out, no added weird algorithm will cause the Air Bags to pop. (unless you hit something)

 

[Bridgie]

I’ve never had any trouble.. car is tracked pretty hard, “Curbs are track”..
it’s also road registered, so sees street time too.

 

[2morrow]

Here’s a tutorial that I did addressing the resistor.



Get the fatboi Seat belt extensions from ford and cut the belt off to turn off the seat belt lights while running too. They’re free by law.

 

[Proshop]

Here’s a tutorial that I did addressing the resistor.



Get the fatboi Seat belt extensions from ford and cut the belt off to turn off the seat belt lights while running too. They’re free by law.

How’s the Sparco slider holding up for you? Thinking about switching to one over the crappy design that Braum makes.

 

[2morrow]

How’s the Sparco slider holding up for you? Thinking about switching to one over the crappy design that Braum makes.

It works well and still there. It does add more movement/flex to the seat since you are adding a moving element. However there are no complaints while driving on the street or track. My passenger seat is fixed and there is no movement in that.

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