I need a reputable speed shop in Georgia! My sad story...READ ON!!!!

I'm in the Navy stationed overseas in Japan. I have been here almost three years and I'm leaving in December. When I first arrived I thought "How cool would it be to bring an american muscle car over here and shop the Japanese what were driving in the states." Yeah...whatever. So, I sink more than $18,000 into my 1993 GT. Brand new procharged DSS Super Pro Bullet 306 long block w/ all forged parts, special order pistons, AFR 185s (O-ringed) and a trickflow intake, full MAC LT headers, prochamber, Flowpaths w/dumps Brand new TKO, Aeromotive fuel stsyem w/sumped tank, Tubular front end, coil-overs, chassis braces, caster/camber/panhard bar, upper/lower control arms.....90% of the parts needed to do my 5-lug ( I thought I could just do it while I was here) Superior axles..31 spline, moser diff, Cobra vented/slotted 13" discs up front 11.40 in the rear...won the booster, partitioning valve, and master cylinder assembly on Ebay, and so on and so on. So I have mostly everything for it, but it never happened.
From there the story just becomes a disaster. A co-worker of my wife, his dad works with these guys (and by now you know it has to go sour) that build NASCAR engines or something and custom fabricate a lot of their parts and are mechanical geniuses and would cut me a great deal to build my car for me. The original quote....$1800...all they did was plop the engine/transmission assembly in place, build and insall my fiel system, tubular front end components. In the end I think it cost me something like $5200 all said and done...which made me pretty mad because it was an after-the-fact issue. The original quote got me to give them my car, and once they had it, they did all this work nd tallied it up and threw back the bigger number to me. So...it was a bad deal, but they talked pretty big about my car.....how fast it was and how much I was going to love it. Uh huh...sure.
So, I get the car here and it is a disaster. It costs me nearly $4000 to get the car legal t drive in Japan. HUGE rip off!!! The day it arrived I had a dead battery..and to give you an idea of the cost of things in Japan...I had to pay $280 for a red top Optima battery! Yeah...and I get the car to turn over and there ae a few pinhole leaks in the coolant lines. The car is brand new to me and smoking because it is spitting coolant onto the too restrictive exhaust (kept in place to pass smog)...plus I talked it up with all the people I worked with so I had to suffer the embarrassment of this ordeal. Next...driving it to have it smogged the fuel lines pull apart at the regulator and spew gasoline all over my engiine compartment. Luckily no fire...my friends and I rebuild the connector (They were built wrong...a very dangerour place to screw up if you ask me) on the side of the road....the other side of the regulator will pull loose later during the LT header install. All this stuff frustrates me so bad I let the car sit for 6 months.
A guy here brought over a SALEEN and I saw it and talked to him one day...got me motivated to work on my car again. Once I got it on the road I had it running for about 2 weeks (of which I only took it cruising 3 times) before my power steering line blew fluid all over my car one day. It has been sitting since. I just ordered the parts I need to fix the power steering, because I am leaving in December and in ordere to ship the car back to the US with me it has to be running.
SO...from the initial cost of buying the car, plus the HUGE stereo and Cliffird alarm I put in the car....AND all the recent goodies I just talked about...I have right at $40,000 invested in my car...AND I HATE IT!! It looks like crap, it runs like crap...it sounds AWESOME (when it is running) and I need it fixed. I want the mild mannered 450+ horsepower, subtle external styling car it was supposed to be....and I need a good shop to do it. I know this was a long story, but a pretty good read huh?
BOTTOM LINE....can anyone recommend a good speed shop that specializes in Mustangs that will give my car the complete turn around? I would appreciate it immensely.....also, I will be near Atlanta, so the closer to my house the better. I am not familiar with Georgia....my wife is from there. Also, just a side note.....I don't need the car for another year, so if the shop seems like they might cut me a break on the price for not having to make my car a priority..that would be most cool. I'm going to a ship that is never there, and I will never be home, so they could basically HAVE my car for a year. Any help or sympathies is appreciated.
 
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Modular Powerhouse is the best shop around. You are lucky to be in Georgia. My car is back there for the second round of modifications. I'll never take my car anywhere else.

Customer service and knowledge are second to none.

You will not be dissapointed.
 
Ifigured te "Modular" in Modular Powerhouse had to do with 1996 Mustangs and newer. I just assumed the guy recommending them would have caught on that I'm still a pushrod guy. Anyway...my car will be modular in a sense....with my 5-lug upgrade ai hope to be mounting STERN 3-piece MODULAR wheels..although I'm sure that won't make one bit of difference. You know what I mean?
 
I know of a guy in marietta georgia. His name is Jeff Harris. He is a pushrod man. He has a fox body he is working on to put out over 1000 hp. He is the only guy I like to work on my stang. He works for team ford in marietta. He is worth the call. I highly recomend him. Like I said I am really picky about who touches my baby. Jeff all the way. He knows his stuff!