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 You are trying to build something that crosses over into both from what I gather of everything you have written (and removed) to basically build what you see as "the ultimate MR2". That in itself is hard to understand as the question WHY??? 
I like its faults and I love driving them however you want an a MR2, then want to change everything about it from the way it looks, to its engine, gearbox, interior, basically everything about the whole car, spending massive amounts of dollars but WHY????
So in all seriousness I'm trying to understand why????

 
Because he's young, dumb and full of non mortgage and family related expenses and responsibilities? 
 
Everyone has big dreams and possibly silly ideas at times, could you imagine robk, mandalay, glenn or b24 trying to explain what they wanted to do/have done and money spent on their obsessions to a nissan driver? Would not compute.