$2500 to spend part II

after my last thread and some wise words from Grady , I feel I need to start over . I tried to keep my first post short, but I soon realized that I was gonna get better advice and ideas if I told the whole story and plan for my car. My car is curently a daily driver, not of neccesity but because of the love I have for driving it.

My future plans for the car is to have a well manered 400-450 hp/tq street car that I can drive the 7 mile round trip to work and make the occasionl FFW or NMRA event in my state. Im not trying to build an all out strip car, but something that I can enjoy on a regular basis.

Im good with renches and can do most all the work myself and with the help of my friend( he has a sub 10sec rx7, ill get some pics soon). I have a lot of contacts in the area and with the help of all of them and the great people on :SNSign: I believe I can acheive my goals.

Ive broken my project into 4 phases with each phase taking about a year to complete( due to finances) each year around march I get a 3000$ bonus that I will be using to fund my project, plus about 150- 200 a month at least 8 months out of the year. The bonus allows me to accumulate a lot of parts at once and then use the monthly to fill in the gaps.

Phase one- purchase car and ensure its dependable: my budget was $5000. After months of looking at pos and teenaged abused rags around here I found one 107 miles away with no picture on autotrader for 3600 bucks. I called the seller and asked some questions and was pretty excited but apprehensive about what he told me about the car. I decided to take a chance and go see it cause everything around here in my price range was junk. he told me I wouldnt be dissapointed, bring cash, and if I didnt buy it he would give me $20 for gas for the drive. When I got there I was amazed to see the car was EXACTLY the way he described on the phone. After a quick test drive, and realizing I wasnt going to make it home on the tires it had on it, and the ac was busted I talked him down to $3000 and I purchased a one owner, non molested, senior citizen owned( he was 55 when he bought it new) 101k miles on it, completely stock right down to the original plugs. the ac was shot and it needed tires badly( it sat for 1yr before he sold it, the tires were dry rotted and u should have seen the coolant) I think I got it for dam good price. Left there and drove the 1/2 mile to tires plus and dropped 400 on some decent tires and then went home.
With the 1600 I had left I installed a new ac system( comp, condensor, dryer and new lines) did a complete tune up, flushed the coolant, had a fuel injection service done, Changed all belts and hoses, thermostat, and overhauled the brakes. And over the rest of the year I got the windows tinted, installed a stereo, white face gauges, cut the cats off, yanked the emissions crap, and installed flowmaster( the car still had the stock mufflers on it).
Phase one is complete and so is this year. On to phase two

Phase two: suspension, exhaust, paint

Phase three: tko, clutch, gears and supporting items for phase 4

phase four: motor( this is where it gets interesting) possibly a 331 or 351 H/C/I with ( dont laugh ) a homebuilt turbo system running 8- 14 psi ( hopefully as low as possible to achieve my goal). People have done this before, and I have no reason to think I cant.



Parts list for phase two $2500 budget
Tokico hp shocks,struts and springs
new bushings in the front
frpp uca's
steeda lca's
fms alum driveshaft( will this work with the tko)
bbk shorties( I can also modify these for use in the turbo setup)
steeda tri ax shifter
3.55 gears ( im going to go ahead and purchase the gears and see if I can get them installed in 08, will these be good with a turbo setup or should i get 3.73?)
thats about 1500 in parts with the rest going for paint.

Sorry for such a long post but I felt it neccessary in order to get the proper feed back. If anyone sees anything wrong with the parts ive chosen please dont hesitate to speak up.

Thanks

James

Parts list update:

forget the headers
im gonna do a m5400-a bullitt suspension( only $59 more than the hp kit but comes with f/r sway bars. probably the best way to go for me.)
and I forgot the sub-frame conectors.

Are the steeda lca's and the frpp uca's good enough to support 400-450 hp/tq?

Thanks all

Excellent advice by all, im sure we can discuss more motor options in the future, right now I am just wanting to focus on suspension and supporting hardware.

KC although coil-overs and k-member sound really good, I think I would like to keep the majority of the parts FMS ( just my preference) and I have heard many people rave about the bullitt suspension kit.

I know im gonna get the 5400 susp. kit
03 cobra A-arms ( these seem to be recomended with 5400 susp kit)
the fms alum driveshaft is a no-brainer( Will this work with a TKO?????)
fms uca's( everyone seems to recommend these)
steeda lca's ( or would a set of say mac uppers and lowers handle my hp requirments?)
sub connectors( dont know which ones yet, but def weld in with cross brace)
new bushings in the front

Are c/c plates a requirement with a 1" drop?

I know there is alot that can be discussed here, but I hope to focus on phase two until I have it figured out, and then move forward with the others.

Thanks everyone for all the feedback
you guys are great.

No problem Grady.
I can see that a tweecer is in my future.

I have finalyzed my list of suspension components, let me know what you guys think.

bullitt susp kit m 5400-a
03 cobra a-arms
end link kit
m/m rack bushings
strut bushings
subframe connectors m/m
lca's pro3
uca's frpp
driveshaft frpp

Around $1200-$1300. That should about do it for the susp.

All that and I still have $1200 left to spend.
What to do what to do.