Yes, but i doubt he wants his car to sound as loud as an airplane taking off. If you get the downpipe without any type of aftermarket muffler, itll sound like absolute crap. Ask anybody here and they will tell you the same thing. Plus the P&P manifold doesnt really help you out too much unless you are really making a lot more air. Thats not a mod you would want to do until later down the road. You would also have to port out the throtle body as well to compliment the manifold.

700 bones, I would get piggyback, magnaflow muffler, pulley, intake. That should bring you well around 700 give or take. But you wont notice THAT much of a difference with all that. If you want to spend your money so that it wont necessarily make your car faster, but so that you can FEEL it, get the progress sway bar, springs (preferably coilovers but kinda hard when on a budget), lower tie bar and better tires and youve got one fun vehicle to drive.

 

Wow thanks to all the replies! I wasn't saying I only had $700 for those that misunderstood, but I will $700 extra out of no where to play around with. I'm all for spending extra money, no problem there, just wanted to see what all of you had to say.

The wheel are by MB motorsports and I don't believe they weigh much more than the stockers, but I could be wrong. Also, would a 43 offset be weird looking?

 

Personally, I am more go than show. I would do simple suspension upgrades - upgraded bushings, maybe a rear sway, and save the rest for maybe a header when RPW finishes development.

 

Decide if you care more about looks, speed, or handling. When I was looking for wheels I checked those out and i believe they are actually pretty light, but i may be mistaken.

IMO, I would go with wheels but only if you are going to step up to 17 or 18. If you are planning on keeping 16's then wheels can wait. As far as performance there are a ton of package options. It would probably be best to get the more expensive mods right now since you have money to burn and then later on you can save some money for the cheaper stuff.

 

Have to agree with most of those on here telling you to decide on what it is that you want to achieve with the car if you are after all out speed and handleing then your money would be best spent on a really good 21/2' cat back with hi flow cat and muffler ( then later add the RPW 4-1 race design headers)

If you want your car to look the part then go for the big 18's

building a car to suit the cruiser style or the race style is not a simple thing and will take nearly all of your hard earned $$$$$$$$ and if you are trying to achieve both a car with looks to match the speed then it will take a long time to get there and you could find yourself hating the car becasue you have made sacrifices of dollar vs quality parts

 

A header wont do you crap on our cars. Why do you think RRM hasnt come up with one yet and dont plan on it? Because unless your throwing up major power then they are pointless. Our exhaust manifold is already tuned correctly and upgrading it will do little to no good.

 

No disrespect to you, but RRM isnt the end all and do all in mods for our cars. Just because they have not developed a header for whatever reason, does not mean that a full race extractor wouldnt net more gains. If you are aspirated, and you tend to enhance breathing, a properly designed header is paramount.... I can vouch for RPW's style of headers because i have seen a marked whp improvement in someone who installed them on one of their other Mitsus. Just because RRM doesnt do it, doesnt mean it isnt beneficial. In EVERY Mitsu I have ever seen or worked on or helped work on, another "race" manifold helped HP-wise. This is from turbo Mitsus to NA 4G91 DOHCs, 4G93s, 6A10s, 6A11s, etc etc etc.

Cliff Note version: all depends on R&D. I would save my money in the hopes that an extractor can provide me with a little more oomph than the stock generic manifolds from Mitsu. But again, all user choice. I look at the bigger picture instead of what is available now.

 

With the mods that are out for our engines now, a header alone wont do you anything. Now if you throw in cams, thats a whole different story.

 

It's all about building blocks. Throw a cam in our cars now bone-stock and gains will be minimal as well. But if you throw in a cam with H/I/X, an FPR, Emanage etc, then you will obviously see more gains. Not saying that you are incorrect, because you arent, but if you are building a car NA, every breathing tool helps.

 

Yes thats exactly what i mean, a header is simply a building block. Good choice of words.