for the gears..i heard the 4.10's are nice but on the highway its just terrible..and my drive to work its mainly on highway but i DO want a car for the city,.(meaning i want to be the fastest to the next stop light haha) dont really care for top mph..what you think of the 3.73s?shouldntn i put in a new clutch as well? for the programmer ...what companies are ppl suggesting..Predator Diablo? and for the mid pipe..wat companies are we suggesting and do u really think its going to helpTHAT much??
I still have the factory 3.27's on mine, but from what I've heard, if you're planning on staying N/A then 3.73 or 4.10's are good, search for videos of each and there's an rpm calculator out there that'll tell you at X speed, you'll be at X rpm. If you ever plan on getting a s/c (or turbo) then I say stick with the stockers.
Your factory clutch will be fine, if it starts slipping really bad, then it's time to upgrade, but you shouldn't have any issues.
I personally have an SCT XCal2, which I think is awesome, but the new sct livewire came out, I'd probably get that. The Diablosport Predator is supposed to be good too from everything I've heard.
Like some people already said, longtube headers will wake your car up. Don't waste your time on shortys. Headers are a lot of work, and you need to be very paitient to install them, but you'll be happy when you're done. The most affordable brands of headers and midpipes are MAC and
BBK, both of which have great reputations. The higher end includes Hooker and
Kooks, neither of which you can go wrong with, but they're roughly twice the price of the other brands.
As for midpipes, basically there are 2 kinds (as you probably know) H and X, the H's sound deeper and keep some of the hp/tq lost at low ends from the X. The X though performs better at higher rpm levels, thus netting a higher peak hp level. They also sound slightly higher in pitch that the rumbly H's. Mac makes a prochamber which is supposedly the quietest of them all. I have one and I love it.
Also, you obviously need to decide if you're getting longtubes or not before you order the midpipe, and whether or not you want cats.
Good luck