How to: mk2 windblocker with speakers in mk1 mx5 miata eunos

what you will need:

an mx5

mk2 windblocker with speakers



socket set - specifically 14mm and 10mm bits

stanley knife

soldering iron and solder

electrical tape

resin repair kit

speaker wires

something to make a bracket and spacer from if you have a rollbar in the way

speaker connector such as below:



Preparing the windblocker


first thing to do is look at the back of the windblocker. there will be wires running along the bottom, going into a connector. i chose to cut this connector off:



you will notice that there are 4 different wires. i worked these out as follows:

blue with yellow stripe - passenger side positive
yellow with white(?) or whatever - passenger side negative
green with yellow stripe - driver's side positive
green with black stripe - driver's side negative

simply solder these onto the speaker connector:



after that, i discovered that the windblocker wouldn't fit with my rollbar, as the speakers make the top of the windblocker thicker than a regular non-speaker mk2 windblocker

therefore i needed to extend the brackets on the side so that i could attack it to the car using the same mounting hole as a regular windblocker. i did this by finding some spare bits of metal i had sitting around plus some washers the same thickness as the bracket on the windblocker. this was so that the extension would not have to bend when tightening it up with the bolt

first up i used the resin kit to bond the washers to the extensions:



then the extensions to the windblocker brackets:




fitting the windblocker to the car

go to your car and remove one of the seats. underneath the carpet (or even connected to the seat) there should be an audio connector for headrest speakers. my particular one has 6 wires as it was for the MSS seats with bass shaker - i don't know if other models are different.



however, the wire colours you need to use will be the same and are shown in this picture i took of my wiring diagram i got from here: link

note i have written the + and - next to each wire



for some reason i forgot to photograph this next bit, but you then need to feed them under the carpet and onto the rear shelf carpet. i did this by taking all the carpet holding things out of the carpet behind the seat, then most of them out of the rear shelf carpet

this allows you to feed the wires under the carpet, get your hand in from behind (huehue) and feed it up the rear bulkhead and under the rear shelf carpet. make a slit in the rear shelf carpet behind where the windblocker will sit and feed the wires through

it should come out looking like this:



yes that only shows 2 of the wires but you get the point

now you need to bolt the windblocker onto the car then attach the wires to the correct points of the speaker connector:




et voila, you have a working windblocker with speakers that, if you have a safety21/cusco/carbing rollbar like me, you can flip the centre bit down on to give more access to the parcel shelf





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