If you stay N/A or go the SC route, I'd guggest a set of headders as well, since the stock ones suck big time. Other responses are above in BOLD.

 

So can i get some tips for the moment to keep the cost down, but also get some reliability in the items? Also where can i really start as a newb?

 

As I said, get that intake first, it'll add way more power than the exhaust will, and honestly with the stock headders on the best you can really hope for from and aftermarket exhaust is around 5hp, and that's being pretty optimistic. From there, if you're more about looks get the springs, if you are more about performance, get the swaybars. Those should get you started. The best advise I can give you though, is to do your homework, look through several forums for technical information and start teaching yourself about some of this stuff. I have no problems answering questions and helping out, but I'm not going to spoon feed it to you. There is a club and a crew out there for our car and in both of them you will find good information, between the 3 sites, you should have a pretty good base of information to pull from.

That being said, there are some free things you can do to the car in terms of apearance. First, those "door guards" that are placed way too low to really do you much good are simply help on by adhesive and come off pretty easily with some fishing line or a credit card and a hairdryer. Second, a good portion of the badges are the same as the door guards and come off so that you can either de-badge or so that you can change their color. Third there is also the airbox mod, search this one, it's been posted multiple times and I really don't want to post it again. Anything more than that requires a certain level of technical proficiency.