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The Barton Industries Shifter

Was looking to change the interior a little bit... One thing that came up that peaked my interest was changing the shifter.  Ivy was developing a race ready, aggressive attitude and well, quite frankly the big, leather wrapped shifter just wasn't fitting in... it was time for it to go!  Enter Barton Industries! Barton was making a very cool, pistol grip shifter for the automatic and they would also be attending Camaro5 Fest in Georgia.  Perfect!  Get the shifter, save on shipping and get it installed!

Adding an Injen Cold Air Intake

With spring quickly approaching I thought it was time to try out a Cold Air Intake kit (CAI) on Ivy.  A lot of these CAI seemed to keep the air fillter in the engine bay and then use heat shields or other types of  enclosure to keep the engine bay heat away from the intake.  The thing with these is they still bascially are drawing air from the engine bay or from the front of the car, behind the head light.  So when I seen the Injen CAI, I was a bit intriqued.  The Injen places the air intake/filter down low and basically out of the engine bay, where it can draw air from the lower grill and from under the car.  The Injen CAI was also reasonably priced so I decided to give it a shot!