Installed Grant steering wheel today
I've got the same wheel Big Mike does. Easy install because I didn't install it, hehe. As for all the safety stuff, just keep your 5 point harness on in the street, you'd probably never hit the airbag anyway. Does anyone know if the airbag would deploy if you came down hard at the track form a wheels up launch?
Originally Posted by tektrans
I've got the same wheel Big Mike does. Easy install because I didn't install it, hehe. As for all the safety stuff, just keep your 5 point harness on in the street, you'd probably never hit the airbag anyway. Does anyone know if the airbag would deploy if you came down hard at the track form a wheels up launch?
OTOH a airbag going off in your face with a 5 point harness would be nasty. The whole stock seatbelt/airbag setup is designed to work as a system, remove one part, either the airbag or the belt and you have no gaurantee of being 'safe' as the manufacture intended.
BTW, as far as I know not one aftermarket 5 point harness is DOT approved for street use. Aprroved and illegal are two different things though. Pretty difficult to enforce since its a personal safety issue, same with removing an airbag.
here is my 40 dollar grant wheel from autozone. got an adapter from pep boys that worked by buying a few of them and the last gmc truck one made worked. i don't think the adapter was made by grant though that's why.
put it on like 2 years ago or something when i pulled all the bags and crap.
put it on like 2 years ago or something when i pulled all the bags and crap.
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Originally Posted by SPANKY LS1
There have been a few instances of airbags going off at the dragsrip in the last few years, either from a hard launch or electrical problems.
Shawn
Shawn
Air bags will hurt more then help in any crash that isnt almost a head on frontal hit.Anything is possible I suppose, anyone with a car that launches hard enough should have a 5 point harness, if they have a 5 point harrness they shouldnt have an air bag IMO - but whatever makes you feel safe is the best for YOU. I have deployed a lot of airbags over the years just messing around and those things are serious when they go off..
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Originally Posted by DopeFedZ
The radio area piece is just secured by the stock bezel. The one behind the clear guage cover is kind of bootleg but it works. There are little tabs in the back and I just kind of put a screw through them to press against the back of the carbon fiber which pushes it against the clear piece itself. Don't know if that made any sense or not 
I just got my Grant today. I'll toss it on this weekend and see what kind of weight difference it makes. I can tell you that eliminating the air bag will make a difference if it's a quarter of what the passenger bag weighs.
Anything is possible I suppose, anyone with a car that launches hard enough should have a 5 point harness, if they have a 5 point harrness they shouldnt have an air bag IMO - but whatever makes you feel safe is the best for YOU. I have deployed a lot of airbags over the years just messing around and those things are serious when they go off..
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Originally Posted by Camaro_Zach
hi, john has a race car. thanks.
john, did you put a quick release on that? i want that kinda setup, thats bad ***. how much was the wheel?
john, did you put a quick release on that? i want that kinda setup, thats bad ***. how much was the wheel?
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how do you figure bickel? if he races it exclusively then it's a race car. if it is driven on the street at ALL, then it's a mixture of both. do you know if he drives it on the street at ALL? i don't so i can't confuse the two.
Originally Posted by bickelfirebird
John has a street car that should not be mistaken for a race car.
you know, i hope i'm not making a mistake here. but it seems as though you're knocking him because it basically has a vin #. is that why you wouldn't call it a race car? if home is where you make it, than a race car is what you make it, or make it from at least. you seemed like a cool guy when i first started talking to you, so prehaps i'm not understanding what exactly you're trying to get across. let me know.
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Johns car is indeed a race car and one day he will stop being a baby and realize it.. and then stop worrying about having a damn radio when the car is never even driven on the damn street.
No worries John. Next time you see your car there will be a huge screw driver shoved through the face plate of the radio. There was a freak warehouse storage accident.
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To my knowledge the quick release is SFI certified.
As to weight, if you pick up the stock steering wheel and airbag in one hand and the Grant in the other you'll see a huge difference. Some one said 5-7lbs. My "guess" would be more. Now for the passenger side airbag, that is one heavy sucker. Just pulled mine out tonight. With all the brackets that go with it, it has to weight 15+lbs.
David
As to weight, if you pick up the stock steering wheel and airbag in one hand and the Grant in the other you'll see a huge difference. Some one said 5-7lbs. My "guess" would be more. Now for the passenger side airbag, that is one heavy sucker. Just pulled mine out tonight. With all the brackets that go with it, it has to weight 15+lbs.
David
Originally Posted by Big Mike
This is the quick release hub you need for any Grant steering wheel. I have this piece and it works great!
hey that's the same one i just got with my Grant wheel. looks good. how was fitment? it looks like i'll have to remove the top part of it to make it work with the back of the wheel. is that right? do you have a part # for that one? after a second look, it doesn't seem quite the same as mine. but then it's not in front of my face either. i'll have to check tonight.
thanks,
Dave
Originally Posted by bickelfirebird
John has a street car that should not be mistaken for a race car.
no, he has a race car
AND LETS NOT FORGET EVERYONE CARS DIDNT HAVE AIR BAGS UNTIL RECENTLY INFACT LOTS OF OLD CARS DIDNT HAVE SEAT BELTS AND PEOPLE DO NOT ADD THEM AFTER THE FACT BECAUSE THEY KEEP THE CAR ORIGINAL AND NO ONE DOGS THEM. NO ONE SAYS OMG PUT BELTS AND AIR BAGS IN YOUR NUMBER MATCHING STOCK 1953 VETTE. EVERYONE GO GET A LIFE. PLZ. GO TO YOUR WIVES/GIRLFRIENDS AND PLAY WITH THEIR BOOBIES. IF YOU DONT HAVE EITHER, MAKE IT YOUR JOB INSTEAD OF WASTING TIME ON THIS BOARD ARGUING ABOUT PETTY ****.
remember that whole if you dont have anything nice to say slogan you learned while growing up, well use it. john meerly posted this for facts, not to be freakin analyzed and to go on and on about what YOU think is ok for HIM to do. drop it. move on with your life. this is why i hate message boards sometimes.
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