Modified Camaro Blows Side Airbags At 140mph After Having Stupidly Loud Exhaust Fitted

After fitting a new exhaust system with a diverter on his Camaro ZL1, YouTuber GuitarmageddonZL1 had his curtain airbags spontaneously deploy at 140mph
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Airbags are amazing devices that are responsible for saving countless lives the world over since entering the automotive mainstream. But, they’re not so great on the very rare occasions they go off when they’re not supposed to, as shown here.

The spontaneous deployment of curtain airbags in this video (at the 10min 20sec mark, if you don’t want to sit through the whole thing) is a particularly unusual case. It’s on a modified Chevrolet Camaro ZL1, and the uploader reckons it was down to the stupidly loud exhaust he’d just had fitted.

It was a diverter system which - at the flick of a switch - dumps all of the gasses out of a separate pipe not far from the manifold, bypassing the rest of the pipework. As you can imagine, that results in the 6.2-litre supercharged V8 in this Camaro becoming shockingly loud, and further investigation revealed that the airbag sensor lives right near the diverter pipe. Sound is - after all - just a bunch of vibrations, so the theory is the vibrations were harsh enough to trigger the sensor.

Of course we don’t know for sure if that was the cause, but whatever set them off, it’s good to see that (thanks partly to the roll cage) neither of the car’s occupants were harmed by the deployment. Oh, and obviously we can’t condone doing 140mph on a public road…

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Comments

Anonymous

Meh my Fart Can is Louder

05/05/2017 - 10:43 |
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Anonymous

Everytime i’m in the streets, I hear

05/05/2017 - 10:51 |
38 | 2
Porschephile

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

Pow pow pow pow. car down where you from…

05/05/2017 - 11:23 |
16 | 1
Fillmore (sleeperpooper)

And that, my brother airbag, is the song of my people.

05/05/2017 - 10:58 |
12 | 2
BV86_OFISHAL (AUDM Fanboy)

Before watching, make sure you have volume 100%, and all of your family is in the room.

05/05/2017 - 11:25 |
33 | 2

seems like a trap but ok

05/05/2017 - 11:30 |
15 | 2
Anonymous

Pfft airbags, my fart can blows eardrums.

05/05/2017 - 11:38 |
9 | 3
Anonymous

I thought a diverter valve was an oh so fanseh euro spec blow off valve.

05/05/2017 - 12:09 |
0 | 0
Anonymous

Airbags don’t deploy from sound…

05/05/2017 - 12:12 |
1 | 5
Chris Gregory

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

Like it said in the video, it’s the vibrations that did it!! 👂

05/05/2017 - 12:39 |
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Chris Gregory

That’s incredible!

05/05/2017 - 12:38 |
1 | 0
Anonymous

The Camaro hates the exhaust so much it tried knocking out the owner.

05/05/2017 - 12:45 |
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Anonymous

He: are you alright?
She:ye
Me: FUXK THE CAR GIRL BRO THINK ABOUT DA CAR!

05/05/2017 - 12:48 |
0 | 10