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Then toys.or at least, work three summer jobs--have no life-- save all your money before you have to pay rent, and buy a TT :-) I owned an NA for awhile before converting it to TT. I have tuned NA cars, building my own headers, intakes, adjusting cams, etc. I know what it takes to make an NA faster, and it's not on your list. Plus, the car I did (not a Z--it was a GM 3.4L DOHC), once I added a good 65 dynoed hp, (that IS alot for an NA to add in HP gains) did not "feel" that much faster and was barely driveble. It was a steaming coil of crap at that point. I had a choice to do all the blingy stuff you mentioned--to my NA. I chose not to. And I had plenty of dough to waste. if you could go and spend the $4000 or so extra (in parts and installation labor) that you outlined, you might as well have bought a used TT. Most of the mods you mentioned will NOT really make the car faster at all. Not really. Really, I mean it. All of them are costly (the clutch includes an install, right...) and you will probably not shame any rice with the 3400 lb+ NA car. I used to race my wife, light to light, with her beat-up BMW 1993 325 automatic. That POS BMW cost us $7500 and had 130K miles on it. God only knows how many owners. It would whip my NA's ass soundly--REAL HARD-- every time no matter what. Now, compare that to alot of the new technology, FWD rice out there. Those light, tight little cars can scoot pretty well. Just love that it's formerly a 30K+$ luxury sport car, keep it nice, and wait until you can get a good deal on some other faster car, and move on. I promise, that all the mods that you could afford (and even the ones you can't) will not make that car "fast" by any stretch of the imagination. Save that mod money for when you sell this car, and it will help you buy the next one. Clean it up, get it nicely painted, sure, and love it for what it is, and maybe move up when the time's right. _MWS
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