Affordable Handling Upgrades?

Absolutely I'm with ya. I've actually got pretty decent tires on there at the moment. So I'll add:

Step 2.5: Good alignment after the front end kit install.

... I was thinking that I'd do new torsion bars w/ the front end kit. Any size recommendation?

Bare in mind that the steps I have up will take a few months easy. I'm going to attempt to get steps 1-2.5 done ASAP though.