How To: Mazda Front Bag Setup

excellent post i will be redoing mine very soon
cant wait to see how bad we f'ed it up the first time

great write up! gives me more confidense to get to choppin on mine

im going to be doing this probably this weekend, we already have the upper control arms taken off , since my truck was bagged by the previous owner in the front i just need to cut off the existing bag brackets sicne they were modified to fit a shock in order to get the truck to pass safety.

i noticed dev said not to cut into the frame. i am running slam specialties RE7s in the front so i dont think the airbag will fit without notching it im running 18s right now but eventually 22s so ill try to save the sway bar n show u guys pictures of how i did it

man i cant wait

Thank yall sooo much big big help

So today i removed the bracket to mount the upper control arm on the drivers side ,worked on it for about two hours
everything is flush with the side of the frame, next step is to figure out how to make the airbag fit RE7`s are a little bigger aha
click on my project thread for pictures

question.....

the bar that goes from the lower controll arm to the front... (not the sway bar)

can it stay?

or needa remove ?

i wanna make sure it lays hard

here are some pictures of my truck that may help others!



shows what you need to plate near the LCA
This is not complete in any way

I am layed out on 18's with a pie cut and rewelded lower arm and flipped ball joints and i run a sway bar with no modification other than new shorter mounting hardware for sway bar ends.....no binding nor any lock to lock interference issues with sway bar...I will take some pics of it to archive on this thread for future reference.....my fab looks almost like scrapins....but like i said i am running a sway bar and the triangualtion bar...

by the way nice weldinfg on those mounts ....if thats wire feed nice it almost looks like tig......

i been rocking my front set up for ten plus years with only one issue of the lower passenger mount being to close to spindle and rubbing a hole in the bag....cutmount off lower and moved in 1/4 all better for last 7 years...

not fun to have a blow out bag at highway speed, coule bolts ruined a brand new front tire...

for the torsion bar kit.. what is the length of the upper plates?