The rear wiper on the Magnum has always bugged me. Had to go. Figured I'd have the handle shaven at the same time as well as the satellite antenna and the front liscense plate holes.
I pulled some screen grabs from the video.
The gate was tough, with a curve up and down as well as sideways



this is where the actuator was relocated... under the lip of the bumper where the liscense plate is:





The sirius antenna was beotch. The top warped due to heat when filling in the hole. Resulted in endless hours of trying to get it to look like it wasn't all dented up


The rear fascia had some touchup body work and was resprayed.

The front bumber is all shaved smooth too

The eyelids, pillars and rear wing have all been color matched with brilliant black and the 3rd brake light was smoked. Looks pretty clean now. Makes the handles on the sides glare at me...

 

Looks awesome Grinner, but now what do you do about the Nav and Sirius ant?

Jeff

 

EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW Thats so ugly hahahahhaahhah. What the tailgate run ya? I think I will just do a removal of the wiper and plig it. This way I can put it back on for winter. What I really like to do is the rear cam setup in the hole. Too bad its not centered. But again $$$, dang it hahah.

 

JS, I put the kenwood sirius antenna on the dash:

It's as well as the stock one did there and it doesn't look bad at all to me.
The nav antenna is tucked up under my eyebrow on the inside top left corner of the windshield. It doesn't work quite as well as stock. Most of the time it's fine but every now and again, I'll down and see I'm in a lake or something. It was too ugly to put on the dash but does have to be in the eye of the satellite. I tried both under the dash but no worky. The placement of both of em is the least of all evils right now. I wasn't down with the nipple on the roof.

356, it was $1,400 to have the handle and the wiper shaved. I have to use two hands to open the gate now so I'll go with a keyless entry later on. If you think about it, you always have something in your hand when opening the gate so having to use two hands... one to push the release button and one to pull up on the gate, is a big deal.
I used the stock actuator in the existing handle and just relocated it to the bumper:

I had em color match the pillars and my eyelids (which were satin black).
I had the rear wing color matched by a different shop and had em shave the sprayer from it at the same time. Smoked the 3rd brake light to match my tail lights.
Things are lookin clean back there now. I'll have a ghostly mural painted on there when I get tribal ghost flames next year. It's gonna be freakin evil.
Gonna have to go ahead and shave the door handles at the same time. They are just glaring at me now. Gonna chop two inches from the hight of the stock side mirrors too.
I think that'll be a sweet and subtle mod.
click here to see the video

 

Looks nice,very clean, but for those of use without the auto shop of our dreams, how much does the neccesary stuff to connect the cam to the navi cost? Is it a dealer option at all yet? I figure that will save about 2k in body work and 10k in raised insurance for backing in to others(I am relativly skilled electronically and could wire it up myself).

 

lol
man, I wish I had a sweet shop or even a garage but alas, I just have a little carport. Not ideal for anything. Tinting windows in 20 degree weather kinda blows, anyway.
The camera was $250 and the deck was like $1500, I think. I got it along with the rest of the system so I don't really remember how much it is by itself. It's Kenwood's touchscreen, DVD player/sirius/Nav/single CD player if that helps. Surround sound ready so it's pretty dang neat.
It's not a dealer option but should be. There are too many blind spots in a magnum not to have at least one camera. You can have your stock NAV deck modded to have video inputs if you like. Most do it for a DVD player. I'd go with a different deck or an external monitor for this though.
You may be able to get a small discount on your insurance for haviong the camera. I know you can get a discount for adding an after market alarm so it only makes sense.

 

Did you need custom work to get the display in(fiber glass, etc)?

Do you have a thread showing the multimedia system set up?

 

Just had to cut the non-nav bezel to fir the head unit. It still has the little half circles on the sides but they don't bother me:










The head unit has video and audio outputs as well so I was able to fed the camera to the headrest monitors too. The kids really dig that more than watching DVDs. Each head rest has it's own DVD player and feeds the audio to wireless headsets or I can play a DVD from the head unit, feed it to the headrest monitors and have the audio through the car's sound system. 3 different movies can be played at a time.
The down side is I do not have audio controls in the steering wheel anymore, although there are remotes for each player. There will be an adapter out soon for that. Uconnect no worky either, which is fine by me. Then the antanna's we talked about.
heres a video that shows more of the system and discribes it better:
http://grinnerhester.com/GrinsCar.html

 

Thanks, Now I am depressed, I can never afford that.

Anyway, that is one awsome setup. I Dont know whether or not my mother would let me install the nav system or if she will just get the stock one. How well does it work(in the navigation aspect)? Why kenwood(I am an alpine fan)?

 

I have nothing against Alpine. This deck was just the best fit for what I wanted. Touchscreen, in dash (not fold up) DVD, CD, wmv, video ins and outs...
Touchscreen Nav makes it easier. I can touch anywhere on the pap to zoom in on a location and I actually have keys for typing in destinations. The antenna placement as I mentioned early makes it get lost every now and again. That's my bad, not the deck's. I'll end up relocating the nav antanna. I'll probably just face it a different way but keep it in the same spot.