If you had a completely stock SRT-4 and $3000, what would be the first couple of thingsyou could do to increase the performance without drastically spending reliability?
What is turbo toys? Is it some factory part? I have an 04 SRT-4 and I've heard 'toys' a hundred times and have no idea what it is.

My brother has turboed his honda so I know plenty about hondas, but not my SRT-4...although I just got it.
I understand that the mopar stage 2 and 3 are good things to do, but what about other brands?

 

If I had $3k, I would get a 3inchexhaust and Stage 2 w/ toys. Maybe an intercooler if you have any money left.The toys aspect of it is a bezel that fits into your dash under your head unit. It contains DAB (Dial a Boost), HOM (High Octane Mode), andIC sprayers. If you go to any of the websites listed in the parts sticky section that sells any of the Mopar staged kits they usually have a good description of what you get with a toys kit.... You can also get the 'toybox' which is an after market Toys bezel. It is a lot cheaper, but still requires that you purchase the S2 w/ Toys PCM. Usually people go this route when they piece the S2 kit together used. I got a full S2 kit w/ the toybox for $600 + my S1 pcm...

 

what kind of stage 2 do you recommend?

 

there are 2 mopar stage 2s available: with or without toys. more info can be found in the sticky on the mopar stage kits https://dodgeforum.com/m_265244/tm.htm

 

stage 2 without some kind of fuel tuning device is a waste of time. you'll never see the potential of the kit. i would suggest going either s3 or s1 with bolt ons (wga/mbc/fuel/etc)