Race Seats and Air Bag sensors- what to do?

Canuck714 · Oct 20, 2020

Hey guys,

While I get the pieces together for my son's mid travel Coyote build, I was wondering what people have done to bypass the sensors in the seatbelts and front seats.
This truck will get race seats and a cage at some point, but I have not heard much in the way people have worked around this.

I still want the front bags to work if needed.

Thanks

Z

Dane · Oct 20, 2020

Here's the seatbelt disable procedure: https://www.fordraptorforum.com/posts/42575/

Jakenbake · Oct 20, 2020

Are you planning on running race seats with a 5 point harness or the factory seatbelt? I’m not trying to steer you one way or another, but some people frown on a 5 point harness and a harness bar (without a cab cage) for rollover events.

If you want to keep factory controls with new seats, I think Evil Mfg. has a mount to maintain the adjustments for the seats.

I think there are air bags in the seats, and on the A, B, and C pillars as well. When I looked into this I saw that people recommended installing a resistor into the seat air bag electrical harness so that the truck thought the seat’s airbags were still there. Basically it seemed that there might be an issue with remaining bags if the system thought there was a fault.

Interested to see where this goes. I know plenty of people have done it before, so I’m sure you’ll get it all figured out.

Canuck714 · Oct 20, 2020

Jakenbake said:
Are you planning on running race seats with a 5 point harness or the factory seatbelt? I’m not trying to steer you one way or another, but some people frown on a 5 point harness and a harness bar (without a cab cage) for rollover events.

If you want to keep factory controls with new seats, I think Evil Mfg. has a mount to maintain the adjustments for the seats.

I think there are air bags in the seats, and on the A, B, and C pillars as well. When I looked into this I saw that people recommended installing a resistor into the seat air bag electrical harness so that the truck thought the seat’s airbags were still there. Basically it seemed that there might be an issue with remaining bags if the system thought there was a fault.

Interested to see where this goes. I know plenty of people have done it before, so I’m sure you’ll get it all figured out.

It will be caged, Harnesses all the safety items to go race Norra one day.

Ya I searched an old thread and saw the comments, but there was no resistor part numbers or any "problem solved" type of posts. Thought I would bring it back up.

B E N · Oct 21, 2020

You can probably pull the weight sensor packages out of the seat bottoms and just leave them in the truck, zip tied under the race seats. AFAIK that is the only sensor in the seat, and there isn't any check for the bag module themselves.

I'm not certain about the seat belts, that may be just a continuity thing that's easy to physically bypass.

bubbarob · Jun 11, 2022

Older thread, but wanted to bump this and see if anyone was able to locate resistors?
Found these which the mustang group uses, but not sure if they are direct fit or correct ohm

FORD SEAT AIRBAG BYPASS RESISTOR | KohR Motorsports

kohrmotorsports.com

bubbarob · Jun 22, 2022

bubbarob said:
Older thread, but wanted to bump this and see if anyone was able to locate resistors?
Found these which the mustang group uses, but not sure if they are direct fit or correct ohm

FORD SEAT AIRBAG BYPASS RESISTOR | KohR Motorsports

kohrmotorsports.com

As a follow up. Bought these resistors and they look like they will fit our Raptors as well. Haven;t tried to install but the size of the plug is the same, I suspect the ohm/resistance will be the same as well.

Does anyone have a good source for seat bases for the Gen 1? Evil Manufacturing the go to?
Would like to still use the 3 point belt for now

bubbarob · Jul 12, 2022

bubbarob said:
As a follow up. Bought these resistors and they look like they will fit our Raptors as well. Haven;t tried to install but the size of the plug is the same, I suspect the ohm/resistance will be the same as well.

Does anyone have a good source for seat bases for the Gen 1? Evil Manufacturing the go to?
Would like to still use the 3 point belt for now

To follow up on this.

The resistors work perfect on the Raptor.
Plugged in and worked flawlessly if anyone is interested. Harder work is uninstalling the harness from the stock seat base and working with the wire harness to have the resistor separated so you can run different seats.

I ended up getting the Evil Manufacturing seat base (which are solid), but didnt realize how heavy they were. They weigh almost the same as the seat (24lbs = seat base vs 28lbs = seat)

Couple pics of it mocked up. Will not be doing this afterall. Was disappointed with where the total weight came in compared to stock. Not worth the headache of figuring out the harness

johnny0303 · Jul 18, 2022

that looks dope with the race seat

Canuck714 · Oct 9, 2023

Resurrecting an thread from the grave..lol
I ended up selling the Poverty-Runner I built for the kid, but wanted to see if/what anyone else has done for Gen 1 Seats.
I would like to take my factory seats and get the bottom and side bolsters beefed up then recovered. Has anyone attempted that?

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