Last fall on a whim I decided to purchase the Godspeed carbon fibre rear wing from a fellow member on the Facebook R35 GTR OWNERS CLUB. Matt just upgraded to a duckbill rear trunk lid --also something I really liked and was also debating about purchasing, but he had the wing up for sale at a price I couldn't refuse.
It arrived in December last year and sat in the basement for the winter. During that time more group buys came and went for the duckbill and I was really getting buyers remorse and thinking of selling. I posted in a couple of forums to see if I could find any buyers but there weren't any takers (probably because I wasn't making much of an effort and didn't even bother posting pics) so today I decided to just go ahead and just install it.
I followed this thread for instructions: http://www.gtr.co.uk/forum/121137-step-step-fitting-rear-wing.html
I opened the trunk and used a heat gun to soften the glue and remove the gray stickers (yes stickers) covering the screws holding the trim cover in place at each wing end.
After removing the 6 Philips screws, the trim was removed to expose 6 more #10 nuts. Those came off quickly and now I'm faced with removing that @&$#%^[!! centre pillar. What a pita. Took almost an hour, a heat gun, a long x-acto blade and some intestinal fortitude to pry that thing loose. After that you unplug the brake light wire on the right stand and voila the wing comes right off.
I brought it indoors where more heat gunning was needed to remove more gray stickers to expose the Philips screws holding the trim piece that hides more screws that secures the brake light. Some wriggling and it comes off easily enough. Everything was reused on the CF wing and then it was reinstalled back on the car.
When I first tested fitted the wing, it seemed really warped and didn't want to go on the oem stands. Slowly I cinched everything down and it ended up looking great. --like oem but CF with a pronounced duckbill upsweep at the trailing edge. I really like it.
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