RBS20003

Hello everyone

It been a long time since 2004 I used to follow this forums .
When I had my 2004 S2000 ,I finally got it back .

Well ,I currently have a 2003 S2000,came with Pioneer headUNIT ,who ever did the install was super clean .
I can control the volume now. sweet .

But I couldn't located a remote wire.
I had a alpine headunit,back in days, the remote wire ,was separate was easy to locate and use.

Any idea which color I should splice ?

I completely forgot when you splice the wires should I splice them from the the factory wiring harness or from the aftermarket ?

Here is my install I replace my factory speakers with Polk DB 6502 components,I will be using PPI Power PC 450 and a JL 12W0,
I have a Subwoofer I customized when I had my 2004 ,kept it .

Also how do I wire my DB polk speakers to the amp ? should I take the wires from the headunit or from the crossovers to the amp ?

Does it anyone have some Pics of their systems and diagram ?

Please to be back here .
Thanks

oth

The amp remote turn-on wire coming from the headunit's harness is normally blue/white. As the car's
harness doesn't have that wire, it's (hopefully) just taped off from the headunit harness ready for you
to connect directly to the amp's turn-on wire.
As a rule, you don't ever want to splice the car's harness directly - always splice to the headunit's
harness or an that connects to the headunit's harness and plugs into the car's harness.
As for connecting the amp to the Polk components, there are two ways:
1) run new speaker wire from the amp into the doors, bypassing the factory wiring, and connect to the
crossovers, which in turn are connected to the woofers and tweeters
2) run speaker wire from the amp to the adapter harness, connecting the wires to the appropriate
speaker wires heading into the factory harness. You'll need to disconnect the headunit's speaker wires
from the adapter harness and tape them off so they don't short. And you'll need to connect the wires in
the doors to the crossovers - use a so (again) you don't screw with the factory wiring.

A1A-S2K

I have an Alpine head-unit. BLUE wire is the remote.....spliced into the Alpine harness to turn on my sub-woofer.

RBS20003

Does anyone have any Pictures they can share from their systems ?

Btw ,I am going to pay someone to install it, not going to mess with it,

I ran all the wirings also built a shelf for the amp in the spare tire compartment .

All this installer need to do is to connect speaker wires ,remote wire, and of course a power wire to the battery .

Speaker wires from the crossovers to the amp are very complicated to me.

He said $200 ,its worth it.

RBS20003

I used to have an Alpine ,you were correct remote wire was by it self very easy to locate .

Ill look into an alpine headunit

oth

Normally solid blue is power antenna, blue/white is remote turn-on. They may behave the same, but
for some headunits the power antenna wire is only energized when the radio is in use.
You don't say which Pioneer headunit you have - I looked at a random Pioneer owner's manual and
at least that model only had the blue/white, which they say is for "power antenna or amp system control"
so the reason you may be having trouble finding it is it may already be in use for the power antenna.
It is possible to tap into it and use it for both, but you need to be careful that the total current draw
doesn't exceed the max listed in the owner's manual - for the Pioneer I looked at that's 300 mA.
Ideally I'd put in an appropriate inline fuse and then you know you won't damage the headunit.

RBS20003

I finally installed my system .

Pionner Head Unit

Component Polk DB 6502

JL Audio sub 12 W3- 4 VERSION

PPI PC450 .

Wheels AP2 with /Michelin Tires.

I ordered a front lip from ebay, Honda is going to paint it for me matching the paint t and installing it as well .

Didn't ask how much cuz It doesn't matter I am doing it anyway.

Ive replaced the console with AP2.
the car looks freaking awesome.

Will post some pics

robjoshua228@yahoo.com

Do the consoles differ between AP1 and AP2? In what way?