What's the aim?
Stop right here and think hard. What’s that aim of adding these components? Do you want the fastest car in town (don’t we all)? How much money can you spend (Remember the sign the crazy mechanic had in the movie Mad Max: "Speed is just a question of money. How fast can you go?")? Is it also your daily driver? Will it need to drive on ice and snow? Or do you have another car for such mundane things? Is it to be a high rpm screamer that wake up the neighborhood when you cruise to the grocery shop in first gear to stay in the rpm range the engine likes? Or is it going to be sleeper with good idle that can surprise when needed?
Most of the tips on these pages can be used for any of the above. Our experience is however that people that choose to go all out, always seem to end up with cars that don’t see much mileage, and why have the fastest loudest car in the world if it’s parked at home and you’re driving your Yugo XYZ when you meet a fast car. We know this message is fundamentally against what most people want to hear, they want the fastest, no matter what. And of course the choice is yours.
The following parts choosing tips are based on getting the fastest, sweetest running car that could be daily driver. Cars that are trailered to the track can of course go more overboard.