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For the cost of turbocharging or supercharging you'll easily match or surpass the cost of a V6 swap. For the most part the 7A is a stout and resilient motor, but it was never meant for performance. Just in case you're new to Toyota nomenclature, FE designates and economy head where as GE designates a performance head. You may say, but the 1MZ-FE ends with FE so it's an economy engine too! Why would I want another economy engine? Simple, that economy engine pushes out 200 hp and 214 ft lbs of torque naturally. Which is more than enough for a 2,400 pound FWD car on the street. All the while you still get 30 mpg or more. Sounds like a win win scenario to me.

As far as lowering your car goes, it depends if you go with springs and struts or coil-overs. How low do you want to go? If you only want to drop 1.5" or so then springs are a good way of going about it. If you want to drop more than that by a substantial amount then you'll need coil-overs.

If you do get a header, remember to get some heat-wrap for it as well. Another thing, the header and down-pipe marketed for our car is really for a Corolla. You'll have a gap between the new down-pipe and the second cat of the stock exhaust. Good time to remove the cat and join everything together with a glass-pack.