My two cents - if I had to do it over, I would START with whatever has the most HP and THEN put some money into that to give it even more. I've put a lot of dough (way less than some of you) into my truck and it's just now able to smoke a Titan or Hemi...and that's assuming they're stock or have very little mods. A modded Titan (cam, etc) would probably dust me. Point being why put a bunch of time and money into something that's just getting by some of the stock competition when you can buy that kind of HP if you look around (i.e. Trailblazer, SS, etc.). Then build that so you have a pretty huge edge on 'the other guys'.

I'm pretty happy with my setup, but I've said this before - when I bought it, I wasn't even THINKING about performance mods. I'd sure do it different.

All that being said, I guess I'm saying I say go for it - get the Trailblazer or whatever with all of that factory installed HP and then do all of the little goodies to make even more.

Plus, that way I can live vicariously through you.