Wahoo!!! I couldn't wait till I had pictures, I just wanted to share cause I was so stressed over this shizznat....

I bought lounge8180's EP3 seats off him last week, and had them in my bedroom for a week till my gf could come over this past Saturday to help me install them. I was stressed cause my EL seats have side airbags, and the Canadian EP3's don't even have it as an option (those crazy Yankees have em though). So if I were to install them as-is, I would definitely get myself an SRS light, and maybe even a Side Airbag Off light....not pretty, and considering the attention I've been getting from the police as of late, something I definitely DON'T need. I was willing to sacrifice the side airbags, ricey and against even my own posted stand on this I know, but damn that red stitch was callin out to me.

So anyhoo, I checked around, even ended up joining a new forum as a result so I could get the SEARCH option to look for articles, and I found out that both airbag plugs (the ones going to the SRS unit under the dash) only require a 2-Ohm resistor plugged in there, just like when putting a non-airbag steering wheel on your car. No probs.....but then I noticed yet another extra plug under the passenger seat, which led to the OPDS unit (Occupant Position Something-or-other System?) and remembered that there are sensors in the passenger seat that turn off that airbag if they sense that a passenger is leaning forward or sideways too much in the seat, thus preventing injury should the bag deploy in a collision. Then I posted up WTB's all over looking for someone's spare RSX or EL seat to rip the OPDS unit out of. No one was able tohelp me out, so I relented and eventually disconnected the battery, took my own passenger seat out and brought it up to my place and dismantled the OPDS and sensor array (airbag was not removed). I then zip-tied the OPDS unit to some of the springs in the back of the new seat, and fastened the 3 sensors (they look like heating pads btw) securely behind it - thanks to my gf Jen for helping me take the seats out and dismantle the passenger one. Brought the seats back down, put the resistor in the airbag plugs, reconnected the seatbelt and tensioner plugs, and connected the OPDS plug in the passenger side, re-zipped the passenger seat neon tube (the driver's side one had cracked and blown, someone give me a new one pls). I then bolted down the seats - I know these were easier to put in than the RSX seats, just from reading the posts on this site, but almost everyone said there was some modding involved anyway. But with Jen's help holding the seat in various positions, all the bolts went in without modification and the seats are held down nice and snug. Full range sliding forward, the rear slide was hampered slightly by my mid floor bar, but more than enough to get a big passenger in, and even if I were to grow 6 inches I'd still be able to pull my seat back too.

So all bolted down and plugged in, all that was left to do was reconnect the battery. This done, I assumed the "paranoid about airbags deploying" pose and hid under the dash while I turned the key to ON. Once the initial beeps were done, I crawled back out of the car and sat in my snazzy new seats, no SRS or Side Airbag lights! Shizzam! As of today (installed on Saturday) absolutely nothing abnormal displaying in my cluster! Hurrah!

Pics coming soon, I took a pic or two of me working on the OPDS relocation...

How much could I get for my stock cloth EL seats? Both airbags are still intact, but the OPDS sensor has been removed from the passenger seat. The passenger seat has since been reassembled, no rips, tears, or stretches in the fabric - you wouldn't know it had been opened unless I told you....