The stock shift knob and boots started to grow old on me, and I wanted something with a bit more “racey” feel to it, but still subtle. To match my steering wheel, I went to RedlineGoods and ordered a pair of shift and e-brake suede boots. Black on Black, I could’ve done red stitching but I wanted it to be more simple. To top it all off, I picked up an ARC Titanium shift knob in the Brushed look, thread size M10×1.25.

Here are the boots:

A look at the shifter trim panel being removed to install these things:

The shift knob:

Everything on… I’m not completely satisfied with how the shift boot is because everytime I go to shift, I grab a handful of the boot as well. Tightening down a ziptie around the neck of the boot didn’t help much either, all the nonuniform folds that were produced looked a bit off. So, I decided to utilize a counter intuitive approach, and ditch the new suede shift boot all together.

Around the same time, I had taken my bumper back off and dropped it off to the paint shop again. I decided it needed to be repainted again… while it was redundant work and a week of downtime, the end product was much better. Before, there were small dimples and holes that weren’t fully filled and sanded across the bumper, and other things. Thankfully all of the prior imperfections were remedied.

Once I put the bumper back on, I went back to get it cut and buffed. Here the bumper is getting wetsanded with 1200 grit:

Then came the buffing with some compound:

For the first time in a while, the car is back on the ground instead of on jackstands.