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I've been looking at an alternative to running my std Sierra clocks and having a look around here I found that the MX5 clocks look awesome when mounted behind a GRP dash with some chrome rings round the surrounds.

 

As usual I went straight to evilbay and bought myself a new cluster, thinking I could just use the pinout diagram from the sierra and a pinout diagram from an MX5 and connect the right wire to the corresponding right wire.

 

Then once I pressed confirm I had a horrible thought.... I'll have no connectors or wires from the back of the Mazda cluster to carry this out.. quick frantic look on google and I can't even find out what types of connectors they are so that I can make up my own loom.

 

Any help hear would be great.. if not I'll have a really nice mazda instrument cluster going cheap :)

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its a MK2 cluster apparently. Just really looking for the connectors for the dash so I can cut and solder between the sierra wiring and the mazda wiring

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I agree the MX5 gauges are going to look much nicer than the sierra gauges.

 

Here is a link to a specialist MX5 breaker I have used a lot they are very helpful.

http://www.autolinkmx5.com/wiring-section-with-plug-mazda-mx-5-used-8264-p.asp

 

Here is the link to Terry's SR2 build blog for what he did with his mx5 gauges.

http://sr2builddiary.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/dashmod.html

 

Two words of warning though

 

The oil pressure gauge is only a real gauge on very early MK1's, on later models it is a fake gauge and works like a warning light on the sierra.

 

The water temperature gauge is heavily damped and by the time it moves to hot it is really hot.

 

When I converted from sierra gauges on my zero i used a bit of veroboard cut to fit the sierra loom plug and soldered the wires to my digidash to it and taped it in.

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its a MK2 cluster apparently. Just really looking for the connectors for the dash so I can cut and solder between the sierra wiring and the mazda wiring

I have a whole loom from an MX5 which may be Mk2 so I'll try have a look and see what I can dig out :)

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