What TO DO............how you'd do it!

[84LX89GT]

2 parts......my rambling and the main CHALLANGE to you guys

The car that i bought is mismatched, he had a 70mm TB on a stock intake, 1.7 cobra roller rockers, stock exhaust and did sloppy work. I'm trying to balance out the intake and exhaust right now to match the gears and powerband i EVENTUALLY want and after I get those sorted our i'm going to build an engine (to get it machined correctly the way I want it and while i'm still planning it will take time and MONEY) and since i'm in school.....not much money = no new "balanced for the combo" engine. I had people dig into me about my combo without knowing the circumstances....i'm trying to shoot for the idle-5500 range and i'm gonna go forced induction but i can't buy all of it yet and i want to do the engine and supercharger last....i'll probably set up my suspension/chassis before even bothering to build a block

-Here's what i want from you guys-
Ok i've heard alot of people saying what people shouldn't do and for what reasons. Obviously when you throw something on that doesn't match airflow/timing with the rest of the engine it won't be of much benefit (usually hinderance). Here's the test for all you "experts" with your vast amounts of knowledge. Take a stock say......for example 1990 LX 5.0 hatch and with $2,000 doing all your own work WHAT DO YOU THINK IS THE BEST USE OF THE MONEY! This ought to be interesting to hear.....