Do yourself a big favor and read through some of the build threads before you make any decisions. It is a fairly big job but well worth it!
Having done the Stillen SC with the TopgunZ A2A and all of the associated mods, plan on spending around $10-12K to do it right. If you have a sport model, the brakes and LSD are already there and that will reduce the cost of upgrading them. My car was the touring model and I had to do the LSD and brake upgrades.
Yes, you will need an oil cooler and clutch (I used the Southbend Stage 3 daily and love it). I highly recommend the ECUtec tune that Seb does. Your car will be perfectly drivable.
The stock cats will eventually fail if you drive the car hard or do any tracking, so you need to factor that in.
What I did was to do everything possible to make my car as reliable as possible so that I can just enjoy it. So far I have had 8K miles of FUN! My car is perfectly drivable and hauls AZZ!
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RJM pedal, Hotchkis Sway Bars, FI TDX, FOG Light, Z1 Slotted Drilled rotors, Stillen SC, Quaife ATB, Z1 Oil cooler, AEM Gauge Set, Galeforce gauge mount, Avant Garde M590 Hypersilver w/RE-11, TopgunZ A2A kit., ECUtek tuned by Seb: ROLL TIDE!
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