I dont know if anyone has done this yet. But if nobody has, here it is. Ever since I installed my front mount and had to remove the front motor, my wing never worked properly. So i either had to live with it, or find a way to bypass the front motor. I managed to rewire the wing off the stock switch to work manually. I can raise it up, down, halfway, a quarter way, where ever I want it. Unfortunately I didnt take any pictures, but its not that hard.
You will need:
2 - 5 pin 12v relays
Some male + female wire connectors
some wires of course
and basic electrical tools (wire strippers, snips)
First disconnect the battery.
Next remove the trunk plastics to get to the Active aero control unit. Its the bigger metal box to the left of the active exhaust motor.
You will see 2 connectors plugged in. The white one controls the front and rear motors. The other one sends the speed snsor signal and instrument cluster signal etc.
On the white plug cut the Red-Black wire, and on the black connector cut the Blue-White wire and splice them together. Now on plug that goes into the switch up front, theres a black ground wire. Cut that and tape it up. Now the switch has a constant power. Make sure your bulbs in the switch work because current has to go through one them in order to get power to come out of the switch.
Next go back to the trunk and bring out the relays. The ones I used have the usual 85, 86, 30, 87 and 87a. With 87a being normally closed. Now heres where it might get a little messy. Put the relays side by side and do this.
-On both relays ground pin 86 and 87a.
-On one relay cut and splice the Red-Blue wire from the black connector to pin 85. Then cut and splice the Red-Blue wire from the white connector to pin 30
-On the other relay cut and splice the Yellow-Black wire from the white connector to pin 85. Then cut and splice the Red-White wire from the white connector to pin 30.
Now cut and splice the Black-white wire off the black connector, and split it to pin 87 on each relay.
PICS OF THE RELAYS IN POST #12.
Plug the connectors back into the control unit, so its still keeps the motor cut off switch (so it doesnt burn out if you accidentally leave the switch down for too long). Test it, then have fun waving at people.
This worked perfectly on my car, and costed about $20. The switch gets power straight from the fuse box, but the wing only gets power when the key is on, and one of the switches is closed. If you have any problems with it, I'll double check my wiring and get back to you.
At the switch, on the switch itself, cut the red wire and cut the black wire that's next to the green one. Connect the black one from the switch to the red one from the connector. The black ground you cut is the only solid black wire(might have silver dots on it) on the car harness side of the connector. See pics:
How to: Rewire active aero wing for manual operation. Stock switch.
