I have a stillen spoiler I pulled off parts car I bought and would like to wire it on my GXE. Does anyone know the wires or have a picture.

Thanks

 

I cant remember if the GXE has wires running in the trunk or not but you can do a couple of things.

1. unhook the third brake light on the rear shelf and run new wires from there to the spoiler.

2. run new wires straight to the back of the brake lights which you can find in a matter of minutes with a test light.

 

my question is where do you want to mount it? if you're replacing the stock 3rd brake light then just tap the power from the old light and go from there.

 

Hes got a GXE and were putting on the parts car spoiler. I told him to take the power off the gxe's 3rd light.

We both dont know where the power wires run. We looked in the trunk and dont think its there. Do we have to pull the seat or something?

~Alex

 

pop out the rear deck and you should see the wires from the stock 3rd brake light inside the car. you can either tap off those wires or cut and splice longer wires. bring it up to the side of the trunk arm and then fish it through the trunk lid. make sure there's enough slack in the trunk so it doesn't rip out when you open it.

 

I would suggest:
popping the GXE third light out, taking its harness splicing 2 wires into it (don't reconnect to the light once you have your spoiler on. it looks dumb having 2 third lights) and drilling a small hole to drop your 2 wires down into the trunk cavity, and then as soon as you're down in the trunk with the wires, run them due-LH and meet up with the harness on the trunk strut. loop the 2 new wires through as many wire ties as you can with that harness, and follow all the way until you get to your destination. You have to pop out like 20 little clips to release the trunklid liner to get the wires where you need them, and you're going to break at least half of them, so just replace the ones you didn't break strategically. Running the new wires alongside the trunklid wire harness will assure that you have enough length, if you secure it in enough places.

 

...and don't forget to take some pics so we can see how good/bad of a job you did.

 

what do you want to use to cover that hole that used to be the 3rd brake light?

does nissan still sell the cover?

 

I thought there were decks that had the hole for the third light, and ones that didn't. Just like there are decks meant for the Bose speakers and the ones for the regular speakers. If anything, he could just cover the hole with wood cut to shape. Ghetto as hell, but whatever works

 

take the parcel shelf from the donor car

 

but you have to uninstall that bracket first, because it sticks up out of the shelf. so once you are 100% sure you don't need it you may have to cut it out, depending how it's designed.

 

yeah we're trying to avoid that around here....the ghetto-ness

 

Its all good guys... I Just finished the install of the spoiler and man does it look sick.... I will post up some pics tomorrow after I wash and wax my car. Alex_V and I are starting my 5 Speed Conversion tomorrow too...

 

so how exactly did you do the wiring? (i'm looking to do the very same thing, spoiler on GXE car, so if you just did it and it works, do tell, do tell.)

 

All you do is pull the rear tail deck cut the wire and run it through the molding along the rear window and then into the trunk. I wired my spoiler through a hole I made down through the trunk on into the rear window deck. Worked like charm..

 

the bracket for the GXE 3rd brake light just unbolts. I put this bracket and a GXE 3rd brake light in my SE when I went spoilerless. The shelf for the se and GXE are exactly the same and will swap over (again I have done it) except for the cutout for the bracket in the GXE shelf. SO the easiest thing to do is get the shelf out of the donor car and swap it over after taking the bracket out.

 

what about the spoiler itself? how'd you get it off the old car and onto yours. i've heard it's hard to remove a spoiler without damaging it.

 

The one I have is Stillen and it uses 2 10m nuts that hold it down. I drilled 2 holes on trunk mounted it properly then took it off and put the 3M Double Stick tape on and stuck it down onto trunk then used a socket to tighten them down. I did have to use a Dremel to cut away enough steel so I could fit my 10M socket into the hole. But other then that the whole installation took no more then 40 minutes

 

oh, nvm. I thought you took the one from the donor car. is it intact? for sale?

 

I did take it for the donor car.. it just unbolted..

 

this is the spoiler

 

gotcha. the donor car already had the stillen.

 

not to pick on you..(but i will) didn't you just laid out everything he needed to know to installing it and now you're asking him how he did it?

 

yes I know. let's just call it verification of my ideas. I can suggest whatever I want but until I do it, I don't know for sure i am right. I still haven't bought a spoiler, seen the mounting method, messed with wiring... it was just what I thought would work that I told him. I did however check under the liner (and broke half my clips, as i stated) to see where the wires went, then went to a JY and compared. I noted that there were extra wires in the SE, no surprise.

 

Here are some pics of the spoiler installed...

 

good job...although I dont like that particular spoiler (why would they not make it go all the way to the end of the trunk) you did a good job installing it...looks nice and even.

 

Nice job with the spoiler

Is your paint original?

 

no its a macco paint job 600 bucks...

 

It looks like crap brown under light and looking close. :P

But thats because it was grandma beige. It looks great 5ft away.

Orginal black FTW.

~Alex

 

on a stock one can't you sand it back to bare yellow-disease color and prime it and paint it whatever color you need (provided you tape over/remove the light lens cover), without any inexactly-matched-color consequense?

 

I was talking about the body of the car not the spoiler. The spoiler is almost as black as it can get (its actually over green paint). All thats needed is a second coat of black and it'll be as good as a factory black car.

And black is easy to match as well.

~Alex

 

Oh. Well if I can't find a light colored spoiler i'm gonna need a lot more than 2 coats of paint to get it from dark to CH0. but at least the lighting wiring should be a cinch..

 

no the reason it looks brown is because cheap black paint looks brown in direct sunlight. It doesn't matter how many coats they put on it...it would still look brown.