Hey, guys.
Adam here with americanmuscle.com.
And today, we're taking a quick look at, and, of course, installing the GT350 Track Pack
Style Rear Spoiler in the gloss black finish available for the '15 and newer Mustang.
You should be checking this out if you're looking to ditch your factory boring, traditional
spoiler, or if you're looking to add one to a vehicle that never had one to begin with,
this is a great way to go for a nice race-inspired styling.
As you know, the GT350 is one of the most coveted Mustangs in the Mustang lineage.
And this is something that comes straight off of that body style design.
It's got a more aerodynamic race-inspired spoiler build made of an injection-molded
plastic material.
That's a material that you can definitely expect in a lot of aftermarket exterior styling
parts as it's really durable and it's going to last a really long time.
Now, out of the box, this guy is pre-painted in a gloss black.
Now, sometimes you see that, and it's just a bare material that has a glossy finish.
This is actually painted to be finished in gloss black, which looks really good on our
vehicle here.
Now, we've got it on our '19 GT and as you can see, it doesn't even need to be custom-painted
to match your paint color because it looks so good right out of the box.
It blends in really well with your factory gloss black decklid panel.
It blends in really well with the taillight trim you see around here and some of the black
accents we have on our '19 here.
Now, you could take this to a local paint shop of your choice to get custom-painted
or paint-matched to your OEM paint color, but that's personal preference if you're looking
to personalize.
But this guy, again, injection-molded contour, it's got a little bit more of an aggressive
body line across the entire lip here.
It's going to come out from the vehicle a little bit more similar to a ducktail spoiler,
which we'll talk about a little bit later on comparing it to stock.
It's got more contoured body lines in the middle here, and it definitely has more aerodynamic
characteristics than your factory lip ever did.
Now, the factory lip that we had on this '19 GT is extremely small, doesn't really come
up off the body at all.
Not really there for aerodynamics, not going to be the case here, definitely a big upgrade.
Now, this guy is going to install with 3M automotive bonding tape around the edges just
for support, but it's also gonna use the factory mounting holes to bolt down.
Phillips head screws are what's going to be used in the pre-drilled holes in the bottom
of the spoiler here.
So, it's gonna install right in those factory mounting hole locations.
Keep in mind, if your S550 didn't have and never has had a spoiler on it, that means
you will have to do some custom drilling in order to get this to work.
But guys who have had a factory spoiler, no drilling involved, it is a direct bolt-on
install.
You can pick it up for just around 200 bucks.
I'm going to give this one out of three wrenches on our difficulty meter for the non-drilling
guys.
But if you do have to do drilling because you've never had a spoiler, it's going to
bump it up to two, maybe even three out of three wrenches.
You will have to get a little custom with how you line up and drill those holes.
Now, for the install, I'm going to show you guys every step of the process here.
It's going to take you 30 minutes, maybe an hour from start to finish.
Let's get started.
Tools used in this install include a ratchet, small extension, 10-millimeter deep socket,
Phillips head screwdriver, and recommended would be an alcohol wipe.
To remove our factory spoiler, we have four nuts.
The first one here is in this little hole all the way up to the top left corner.
The same thing as on the other side.
So, let's start here with a deep socket, 10-millimeter deep socket, extension, and a 1/4-inch ratchet.
The key here is to make sure that once you have it loose enough that you're not going
to drop the nut into the trunk lid, because that is extremely difficult, almost impossible
to get out.
If you want, you can loosen it up all the way to the last thread, then tip your rear
trunk lid down so that it comes straight out through the bottom.
Now, what we're gonna do here is just loosen that guy up.
All right.
Now that we have it completely loose, I'm just gonna tip the entire trunk down so that
it's straight.
All right.
So, as you can see that comes straight down and it doesn't run the risk of falling straight
in, it can just fall right out into your socket.
Repeat on the other corner.
Once we get loose enough, it might be easier just to detach the ratchet there so you can
get a little bit more control.
Let's tip it down.
All right.
That comes out and so does the nut.
Now, we can focus on the middle.
All right.
Now, in this open cutout here, there are two more nuts.
One on each side.
If you have a trunk liner in place on the inside of your trunk, you want to remove that.
There should just be a couple of push pin clips there.
Ours does not have one.
So, we're just gonna move straight forward.
Now, you can do the same thing where you tip the trunk forward, just to make sure that
it doesn't fall in, but once you get it just a couple of threads loose, you should be able
to get in there by hand.
That one was easy enough to crack loose and now I can just do the rest of it here.
All right.
Same thing over here.
All right.
At this point, we have the [inaudible 00:05:16.974] out of place so we're just going to bring
the trunk down and we can start to carefully just pop the spoiler off.
Now, you don't want to pull too hard because it might crack the spoiler if it's still stuck
on.
Depending on how old the vehicle is, it may be caked on from all the residue.
Let's just carefully pop this guy off.
You also want to make sure that the metal studs are not scratching up on the paint as
you bring it off.
There we go.
Now, we can set it aside.
All right.
So, we got our factory spoiler off of the rear end of our '19 GT and it's on the table
next to our gloss black GT350 Track Pack Style Spoiler.
And I want to go through some similarities and differences here.
And I got to say head to toe, it's pretty much all different with the exception of fitment
and the reusing of the factory mounting locations.
Now, this here is obviously based on the GT350 Track Pack Spoiler.
It's got a little bit more of an aerodynamic characteristic to it compared to the factory
spoiler, which is really just a small lip that doesn't have much body line to it at
all.
It doesn't really have much characteristics as far as aerodynamics go.
It's really there for just a visual impact on the rear end of the Mustang.
This, however, comes up a little bit more off of the body of the vehicle, more like
a ducktail spoiler almost and it has very bold body lines going across it.
It's got an indent here right at the edge, not necessarily the full width of the spoiler
itself, but just there in that center section.
It's also got a little bit more of a point to each end with the contour coming in.
And then finally, the raised lip at the end has these little indents here as well.
So, a lot about this has more of the aerodynamic quality a lot of people look for in a rear
spoiler to help with a little bit more of a downforce.
Right out of the box, it is a pre-painted gloss black finish, which, of course, looks
good on pretty much any OEM paint color, but you could take it to a paint shop of your
choice to get it custom-painted if that's something that you'd be into in personalizing
it.
But as far as fitment, it's gonna go on just the same as your factory spoiler.
Now, it's worth noting, if your vehicle does not have or never had a factory spoiler, you,
of course, don't have the pre-drilled mounting holes in your trunk lid, in which case, you
will have to do some drilling.
This kit does not include any drilling templates because it's meant for vehicles with a factory
spoiler.
But, of course, you could make that happen if you're willing to drill the holes yourself.
But because we had a factory one, we're obviously just gonna reuse those factory holes at the
top here.
There are four mounting holes and it comes with the new screws.
So, instead of there being studs on the underside here, it's actually just using pre-threaded
holes and we'll put the screws in through the bottom.
So, at this point, what we're gonna do is start assembling a little bit more of the
3M bonding tape, because it does have additional tape, which is something that your factory
one did as well.
So, we'll start here on the table and then get to work on the trunk lid.
All right.
At this point, we have our new spoiler face down and I'm using some of the packing materials
to make sure that the paint doesn't get scratched on our table here.
I would recommend grabbing an alcohol wipe like this one here.
And we're just gonna wipe off the backside where we're going to apply the 3M tape.
Now, we're basically just going to apply it across this section here and then the top
going across that way.
All right.
So, getting rid of any dirt and dust is gonna go a long way for making sure that the 3M
gets a good bond.
All right.
At that point, let's get our 3M and get to work.
All right.
So, grab the 3M tape roll included in the kit, we're just gonna peel off a piece.
And I'm going to start right here on the edge.
And I'm gonna slowly work my way around.
All right.
Once you get to the end, grab a knife or something similar, I'm just gonna cut it off.
All right.
So, just make sure you're putting pressure all around and then repeat on the other side
here.
For this next one, I'm just gonna go straight across the top.
All right.
And it's okay if it doesn't reach all the way, but you should have just enough to get
to the end there.
All right.
Next step, we actually have to clean off our trunk lid before we can get started.
Now, if your factory spoiler left a ton of residue, you may need a 3M eraser wheel or
something to get the gunk off.
Ours is just a little bit of dirt.
So, I'm just going to use another alcohol wipe here.
We're basically just going to wipe off this excess residue.
You may need a couple of them depending on how filthy your trunk lid is after taking
that factory spoiler off.
We just want to get that surface dirt off.
Now, for this step, it's a little tricky, but we're basically gonna have to estimate
where those holes are gonna line up.
So, I like to start like this, and you want to make sure that you're checking out which
hole is going to line up to the hole that goes through the trunk lid.
And once you do, you're going to get just about eye level and start dropping that on.
Now, what I did is I just half removed or at least removed a couple of inches worth
of the 3M tape backing, just to get a little bit to stick on the trunk lid to help keep
it in place as we open it up.
All right.
That looks pretty good.
I'm just putting a little bit of pressure to get some of that 3M to stick so that we
can open it up without it moving.
At that point, open it up, grab the screws included in the kit, and you're just gonna
screw it down.
All right.
Next step, what we're going to do is just open this carefully.
If you have enough 3M stuck down, it should keep itself in place.
You want to peek in and make sure all four of the holes are lined up.
So, this one looks good, the middle looks good, and the other side as well.
At this point, bring it down enough.
You're going to need a Phillips head screwdriver along with one of the screws included in the
kit.
And we're just gonna keep it tilted just like this.
And I'm going to go in and just put a couple of threads into that hole.
The goal right now is not to tighten it down too much.
We want to be able to easily remove the rest of the 3M.
That's fully tightened.
I'm just gonna back it off a little bit, but just enough so that screw won't fall out.
So, now that we have that side in, let's go and do the same thing to the other side.
All right.
So, it's in all the way, just back out a couple of threads.
Now, we can easily put this up and do the middle ones.
All right.
Now, the middle is a little bit easier because you can just get in there with your hands.
Just make sure the holes are lined up.
Make sure you're not dropping this inside the trunk.
And I'm just going to thread it on a couple by hand.
Just make sure it is gripping before letting go.
Do the same thing to the other one.
All right.
Once you have all four screws securely in place, nice and snug, but not too tight, we're
going to drop this and put pressure on our 3M.
Now, before putting pressure on anything, let's make sure we're peeling off the rest
of our 3M backing.
Now, because we left those screws loose, we should just be able to lift this up easily
without it moving its position and peel off all of the backing.
Same thing on this side.
All right.
Now that we know everything's in position, you can just put firm and even pressure on
all of the three endpoints.
Lift up your trunk and reinstall the screws completely.
All right.
Once you have that tightened down, you're good to go.
That's gonna wrap up my review and install for the GT350 Track Pack Style Rear Spoiler
in the gloss black finish available for the '15 and newer Mustang.
Pick yours up right here at americanmuscle.com.