hm....i know you most likely wont wanna hear THIS....BUT...if ur gonna mod ur car, maybe you should try to trade and get something a little bit younger....i mean....no matter what mods you do, you still have a car with 180,000+ miles on it, and either way, it might not last you as long as you'd like it to once you start modding it. It happened to me, i wanted to start gettin into cars but i only had an old toyota 'rolla with 200,000+ miles on it....I had an exhaust, and wheels, but almost as soon as i started building the car, the upgrades pretty much all went to waste, because the car basically died not even a full month later. But, now i've got a car thats got a little less than 80,000 miles on it and im happily upgrading it!

Hope i wasn't sounding too negative about your car's age..