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I have a Fujita Cold Air Intake, MR Short Header, MR Cat-Back Exhaust, MR rear camber kit, Ingalls front camber kit, Tein Coilovers, and 18 by 8 Motegi Hyer Black Rims.

have y ou had your cars performance tuned? have a shop professionaly tune your car. a performance shop, ppl that know stuff about performance. your not seeing the full effect of those bolt ons yet. good luck

Upgrade to racing transmission and switch to a short shifter, also have it dyno tested for hp.

Why not go for real performance? Right now your car is kind of a poser. Why don't you get inside the engine and add some ignition upgrades, a higher duration cam, and a better injection system?After that you could add a turbo charger, then nitrous.I built my daughter a 300 hp Saturn SC2.Don't turbo it until you give the car some better aspiration potential.

Interesting question, this will all depend what purpose or goal you are trying to acheive. If performance is the goal, I can help. For starters, you haven't done much to improve power performance of your car so spending money on "tuning" is a bit of a waste of money at this point.You've improved the flow with headers, exhaust, CAI and did some work on suspension.What you need to do are the following:Air flow:- throttle body, intake manifold (relatively cheap and keeps the air flowing)- if all out performance is your thing, then Individual Throttle body would be in order, but its expensive and kills your gas mileageSuspension:- you'll need larger rear sway bar to keep the back end down during tight corners (23mm or 24mm), you'll also need a rear frame brace.- You'll need lighter wheels, the 18" is too heavy and is rubbing you of torque ... your current acceleration is probably a lot slower than stock due to the wheels being too big and heavy. Try some 0-60 runs with your stock rims and the 18" rims ... you'll be amazed at how much slower the 18" rims makes your car. If you go to your local race track and look at the guys running the honda's and acura's they always run with 15" or 16" rims for this reason.- 16" or very very light weight 17" racing wheels is what you need ... try to stay below 15lbs per wheel ... this is very important as this is unsprung weight.- get dot rated race tires ... this alone will improve handling more than anything else- switch your bushings to urethane bushings, this will help with handling responseBrakes:- you can go with a bigger brake kit, try not to go too crazy with this, a little larger diameter rotor using the same caliper is enough. A really big caliper also weighs a ton and you'll need 17" rims to clear the calipers.- change to stainless steel brake lines- you can get some flexible piping from your hardware store and channel some air to flow directly to your brakes and calipers, this will help with coolingEngine:- port & polish the head- mild cams- cam gears- valves- pistons/rings/rods- tuningDoing all this will give you decent power without force induction.If you want, then you could consider a supercharger or turbo; but I personally wouldn't do that.Good luck

if i was you i would buy k pro even if u dont tune with it yet its good to save up and get it now so if you choose to go turbo or supercharger or even N/A you already have the best tuning ecu for hondas hands down. seen ppl squeeze out 20 hp with just k pro

i would definately get a tuning system like a hondata. That will ultilize your modifications. And get some cams with higher lift and duration on the vtec lobe if you have to be emissions legal in CA. Either that or go forced induction.

upgrade any internalsi like the cat-back exhaust but i think you should put in a new intake manifold. turbo would be good too. maybe upgrade the ECU

the cam, also you should replace your exhaust with mandrell bent piping if it isnt already. this method keeps the bends out of the piping and actually curves the pipe instead, so the pipe is a full 2.5 or whatever diameter the whole way through. and i say cam cuz hte exhaust upgrade wont do you any good if you dont have extra back pressure, and bigger cam is a very good way to do that.

Going back to stock.