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What mods should i do first?. not to sure any help will be appricated.

Car gets driven nearly every day so reliability is a must and would like to get close to 180-200rwkw's for now. Engine's stock apart from apexi n1 cat-back exhaust. Budget is around 2k not including nistune. I was thinking of this:

FMIC,electronic boost controller,dump/downpipe,wideband AFR metre,hi flow panel filter, and then a nistune( anyone know a rough estimate of these fitted and tuned) is there any other things I would need to run higher boost safely?

Thanks

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a few things, save your money and get a manual boost controller. they are a darn sight cheaper (turbotech is about $30 on ebay) and work nearly as good. the money you save could be spent better elsewhere. also don't bother with an air/fuel meter unless you plan on doing the tuning yourself and only do that if you know what you're doing otherwise you could end up with a blown motor. a nistune will set you back about $1000 installed, including the z32 ecu which you would need to run it.

my advice would be to just get a FMIC, dump/front pipe, 3" cat (if you don't have one already), manual boost controller and a nistune if you want that little bit extra. then just run your boost at about 12psi and it should be close to your goal.

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oem coils will perform as well as splitfires. as for whether you need them or not, i wouldn't bother buying them until you have increased the boost and seen whether it misfires or not. if it doesn't misfire then save yourself a few hundred dollars.

also don't rule out yellowjacket coils. they seem to perform well also.

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it's not a fwd, so shouldn't need a flex joint unless your engine mounts are shagged allowing the engine to move a lot, especially if you still have the bracket from the gearbox to the exhaust as it will make sure the dump/front pipe moves with engine.

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