<VV> Steering wheel air bag retrofit?

[Sethracer at aol.com]

I'm with Frank on this one. In order to avoid the liability of setting off  
an explosion in somebody's face while they are driving, the car makers took 
tons  of precautions in their implementation of the airbags, with 
interlocks, timers,  different sensors for every application. Could you mount that 
Grand Cherokee  wheel onto a Corvair column? Probably. Should you? - I suggest 
you spend the  money and effort on an easy-to-use three point harness. 
Remember that airbags  came about because folks were too lazy (or some other 
equally worthless reason)  to put on the supplied belts/harnesses. I must 
admit, the explosive bag living  15-20 inches away from my chest convinces me 
that I need to put on that  harness. If only to lessen the impact. 
 
- Seth Emerson
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 3/27/2015 8:22:47 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
virtualvairs at corvair.org writes:

Short  answer, NO.

There are a lot of sensors (3 minimum) for the normal  steering wheel air
bag, and they are calibrated to the impact resistance  (foldability?) of the
frame rails they mount upon. Plus the "computer" to  decide when to fire the
air bag, sometimes this is the same box as the  center sensor in the tunnel
area.

There was a one year no  electronics air bag that could be retrofitted to a
non-airbag car. I think  it was the 1995 Jeep Grand Cherokee. It was a quick
effort by Chrysler to  get an air bag into a non air bag platform. The
following year they had  enough time to get the electronic system installed.
The squib was set off  by a spring loaded ball bearing. Now, how to adapt a
1995 Jeep Grand  Cherokee steering when to a 64 column? Good luck!

Frank  DuVal

Original email:
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From: Ignacio Valdes via  VirtualVairs virtualvairs at corvair.org
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 10:02:58  -0500
To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
Subject: <VV> Steering wheel  air bag retrofit?


So could a Corvair be 'reasonably' retrofitted  with a steering wheel  air
bag?

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