Posting this here for general viewing.
Some pics of my APR wing and install notes. My car is dirty still. Been raining here so haven't washed it yet.
The wing base rails are separate and the wing brackets slide onto the rails and open ended screws screw into the brackets, through the rails from underneath the trunck. To mount, get a helper and position the wing on the rails on your trunk where desire. The wing is vertically balanced and will stand upright under its own weight.
To square it off, you need a minimum of two triangulated measures on each side. Pick a fixed corner of the trunk edge and measure to the tip of the nearby rail, at its top, and another measurement at the bottom of the rail. Using that same fixed point on the opposite side, adjust until the two measurements on both sides are equal. The measurements on one side will differ because you are measuring from the same fixed point to two separate points (the ends of the rail). Write these measurements down. Be accurate to the finest degree.
Once you've got the wing base "square", Use a wax pencil and demarcate the base rails by drawing a few lines around them on the trunk. That will give you a rough framing to come back to. Using painters tape, tape down the base rails while the wing is still positioned square. Then lift the wing straight up without jostling the base rails. Re-measure the base rails according to the measurements you took and wrote down. If they shifted, then lift the tape, adjust them and secure the tape again.
Using the wax pencil, mark a dot in the screw holes in the base rails. This is where you will drill. With the rails positioned exactly over the wax dots now, measure them again and ensure it is still the same, otherwise, go back and repeat.
Remove the base rails, leaving the wax pencil markings (having measure the rails at least 3 times before and after the dots). Using appropriate drill bit (don't recall what I used off top of my head), drill a lead hole through the wax dot and through the back of the trunk, including the second layer of the trunk. If one of the holes does not have a layer gap between it, you can mount the screw, washer and nut directly. Put some clear silicone around it to keep it steady from vibration, etc.
For the double layer holes, you need to use a conical drill bit and open the outer layer wide enough to accept the washer.
The provided base screws screw into the wing brackets. Do this for all 4 screws, slide the base over the open screw ends and insert the wing into the trunk holes. Put the washers, nuts and silicone on the underside and you're set.
Some pics of my APR wing and install notes. My car is dirty still. Been raining here so haven't washed it yet.
The wing base rails are separate and the wing brackets slide onto the rails and open ended screws screw into the brackets, through the rails from underneath the trunck. To mount, get a helper and position the wing on the rails on your trunk where desire. The wing is vertically balanced and will stand upright under its own weight.
To square it off, you need a minimum of two triangulated measures on each side. Pick a fixed corner of the trunk edge and measure to the tip of the nearby rail, at its top, and another measurement at the bottom of the rail. Using that same fixed point on the opposite side, adjust until the two measurements on both sides are equal. The measurements on one side will differ because you are measuring from the same fixed point to two separate points (the ends of the rail). Write these measurements down. Be accurate to the finest degree.
Once you've got the wing base "square", Use a wax pencil and demarcate the base rails by drawing a few lines around them on the trunk. That will give you a rough framing to come back to. Using painters tape, tape down the base rails while the wing is still positioned square. Then lift the wing straight up without jostling the base rails. Re-measure the base rails according to the measurements you took and wrote down. If they shifted, then lift the tape, adjust them and secure the tape again.
Using the wax pencil, mark a dot in the screw holes in the base rails. This is where you will drill. With the rails positioned exactly over the wax dots now, measure them again and ensure it is still the same, otherwise, go back and repeat.
Remove the base rails, leaving the wax pencil markings (having measure the rails at least 3 times before and after the dots). Using appropriate drill bit (don't recall what I used off top of my head), drill a lead hole through the wax dot and through the back of the trunk, including the second layer of the trunk. If one of the holes does not have a layer gap between it, you can mount the screw, washer and nut directly. Put some clear silicone around it to keep it steady from vibration, etc.
For the double layer holes, you need to use a conical drill bit and open the outer layer wide enough to accept the washer.
The provided base screws screw into the wing brackets. Do this for all 4 screws, slide the base over the open screw ends and insert the wing into the trunk holes. Put the washers, nuts and silicone on the underside and you're set.
