lol, I'm sorry I got busy and left this thread for a while. Halfwit, go back to vteckidd's statement about Scotty's turbo NON VTEC d series. over 200whp and 200lb/fttq at 10lbs boost for over THREE YEARS! If that is not reliable and a fast ass little combo I don't know what is. Yes you can do the GSR, then if you go with nitrous you have taken out the reliability factor of it. If you get a tank of bad gas and spray, nitrous backfire, etc. You can run it with a wet shot 100 but you still can't say it's "reliable." And also, a motor set up for nitrous with colder plugs and less timing is not going to make good power when it's not being sprayed on. IE: when you are daily driving it's not going to be all that impressive unless you're spraying it constantly. If you do the GSR with intake/header/exhaust don't be upset when you make 155whp. Then if you want to go with NA, 1,000 for good cams and valvetrain to go with it. To take advantage of the extra lift and RPM where those cams will make power you will at least need to go with ARP rod bolts to make it reliable at higher rpm. Also you will need to tune with something so, 185 for p28 chipped, 300 for dyno time. It's all a matter of preference, you can do any of the above mentioned things and get a thirteen second car. Ultimately it's up to you to decide. However, if it were me and I were starting out with a stock EF to build up, I would absolutely go with a d16 vtec motor and run a turbo, if you get a good unit on your own you can put arp rod bolts in, freshen the bottom end, and put some budget forged pistons in with a little lower compression(scat). The mainstream turbo kit is complete from top to bottom so you won't have to worry about scrambling to come up with the dough for injectors, miscellaneous shit, etc.