<VV> Air Bag Flaw Re: Steering wheel air bag retrofit?

[MarK Durham]

Airbags do more than you think. I walked away from a "head on" with a
pickup in my Ford Taurus with no injury because the airbag kept my head at
the backrest. There was no whiplash that could have caused back and neck
injury.

I'm glad that airbag was there for the first impact, because it prevented
complications later on.

Mark Durham
Hauser, Idaho
62 Monza coupe Red/Red 4 speed

On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 2:37 PM, frankcb--- via VirtualVairs <
virtualvairs at corvair.org> wrote:

>
>     Remember guys, the airbag (no matter what version or where/how it's
> installed) is ONLY good for the FIRST impact!!  After that FIRST impact, it
> instantly deflates and is no help for LATER impacts.  The obvious reason it
> was invented is for those drivers/passengers who couldn't be bothered to
> waste ALL that time reaching for the belt, putting it across themselves and
> clicking it into the socket.  When I started by installing seat belts into
> my 1958 Plymouth people would ask me if I "raced the car" otherwise why
> would I even NEED a seatbelt.  And after we bought our first Corvair (a
> 1965) I installed a child's belt in the back seat for our 3-year old son.
> Now any car he drives doesn't BEGIN to move until ALL passengers have their
> seat belts buckled.
>     So airbags do NOT replace seatbelts (unless you're only planning on
> being in SINGLE impact crashes).
> Frank "the other one" Burkhard
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: corvairduval--- via VirtualVairs <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
> To: virtualvairs <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
> Sent: Fri, Mar 27, 2015 11:22 am
> Subject: Re: <VV> Steering wheel air bag retrofit?
>
>
> 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:
> -----------------
> 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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