It's been a BIG year for my Magnum

[CanuckDWfan]

I wanted to share what I've been up to with this thing this year. I've owned this car since new. It has 98,000 km on it now (60,000 mi) and I have thoroughly enjoyed it every day. I turned 40 this summer and you could say I've been scratching the mid-life-crisis itch - HAHAHA! Here's how things have gone since spring.

At the start of the year...


Went shopping for 20" rims and tires this spring, plus eyelids and a T-Rex billet grille set...


There's a lot of brake rotor and caliper showing now, so time to upgrade (the stock rotors were warped anyway). From this...


...to this...


And then I figured I'd treat myself to some more horsepower. Saw a lot of guys on here installing cams and thought 'Heck, I could probably do that.' Was quite the ordeal (my own fault), but got 'er done. While I was at it I installed the Mopar headers and high flow cats, too...







I had it CMR tuned on a Mustang dyno and it's up 58 rear wheel horsepower from stock - very good! Took it to the drag strip and ran 0.8 seconds quicker than just the month before - awesome! And here it is today...










All that's left to do is remove the corner chrome trim I added a couple of years ago. I liked it at the time but with these big chrome rims (which I LOVE) it's just too much. Of course I'd like to remove the mouldings but I'm afraid of the dreaded '05 bubbling underneath + I want them for the parking lot protection. Maybe I'll find some without the chrome strip in them. I would also prefer to lower it about 2", but living out in the boonies I need the ground clearance for when the deep snow flies. Otherwise, I'm basically done!

I never would've done any more than rims and tires if it wasn't for these forums, so to all of those who have come before me in these mods I say 'Thank you!', and my bank account says 'Damn you to HELL!' HAHAHAHA!!!

Thanks for looking.

[gooeytek]

she's bee-yootiful!

[jirons]

The car looking good just need to tint the tail light

[MY - HEMI]

Nice ride bro! Great write up too. Thanks for posting.

[typicalmarine]

Looks great! It's satisfying to say you did it yourself isnt it!

[claude9039u]

looking good brother!

[MagnumFan7]

Really nice! Love the wheels.

[hemied]

I never would've done any more than rims and tires if it wasn't for these forums, so to all of those who have come before me in these mods I say 'Thank you!', and my bank account says 'Damn you to HELL!' HAHAHAHA!!!

AMEN!!

[Davesatdoasisbar]

Night and day. Job well done

[pigpen]

Good Job,


Time to crack a beer open now

[lallend]

Freekn' sweet...

[CanuckDWfan]

Thanks people for the kudos. It does feel good knowing I did this on my own (with help from forum members when I needed it), and several beers were cracked throughout the process (but no more than two in a row...it was just a lonnnnnnng process - LOL!).

And jirons, are you offering that tint job now that you're done practicing on yours? HAHA! Yours look good in the blue, that's for sure.

[boggart]

Great looking car, and kudos for doing it yourself.

All that's left to do is remove the corner chrome trim I added a couple of years ago. I liked it at the time but with these big chrome rims (which I LOVE) it's just too much.

IMHO that trim goes better now than it did before. I'd leave it.

[CanuckDWfan]

Thanks, MagnumSXT. I liked it when I had the rims from the 300C - thought it dressed it up a little for luxury, but now....well, I'm going to peel it off. Yours would probably look sharp with it as a compliment to your chrome capped stockers - ? I've got the extra stuff I didn't need sitting in the garage - I'll send it your way if you like!

[Bagged Mag]

Good job on the ride. It always means so much more when you do it yourself and someone gives you kudos. Like, "man thats hot!" And you're like, "thanks, I did it myslef." And they're all like, "really?, woah..."

I know the feeling man.

I agree with you, think it would look so much cleaner without the chrome strip in the molding. Hope you find some without.