Greetings,
I need you help to convert my fit into a mobile office.

Front Pass Removal:
1. How? just a few bolts?
2. SRS connection, keep it disconnected, any adverse effect? will SRS for me in the DRV side? CEL will come on?

Battery Conection:
1. I want to make a box and put in 2 gel/mat 6V batteries around the foot well area of the front passanger side. Where is the best access to route a 10awg or 5 awg wire to the alternator/battery, where should I connect the wire, put in an inline auto resetting 40AMP fuse. I will have a battery isolator in the inside of the car. Charging will happen with a 3step 12 charger.

Laptop table:
1. I need ideas to make a laptop table will lay on top the battery box when not needed but swing back and raise, so I can work on it from the rear pass side seat.

 

Four bolts and wire harness forthe seat. You get a cell for taking the seat out. Just leave the seat in and buy a table that strap to the back of the front seat. There's a grommet on the passenger side that is visible from the engine bay. It's behind the glove box I believe. For power just connect to the battery positive and make sure the fuse is within 18" of the battery.

 

Fitting,
CEL for seat removal:
any tricks for fooling the ECU/SRS system when the front pass seat is taken out permanently?

 

I think people are using a resistor to avoid the cell. Not 100% sure about it through.

 

I haven't tried this, but there are 2 things you have to deal with. One is the resistor trick for the air bag, which is common to both driver and passenger seats. For the passenger seat, there is the additional problem of the occupancy sensor. This sensor communicactes with the MCU (the FIT's management "computer") through a serial bus, which cannot be disabled unless you put a dummy one to send packets to the MCU. I actually checked it with an oscilloscope before. But without specifcations of the protocol, it is hard to create a substitute. It could be possible to a logical analyzer to trap and analyze the packets. A simpler way is to remove the sensor from the seat and keep it connected.

 

For my mobile desk, I turn the steering wheel upside down, insert a 11x14 cutting board thru the big opening in the steering wheel and put my laptop on it. Cheap and stable.

 

cel will not turn on the air bag light will. cel is an emissions light only... seat removal has nothing to do with emissions..