I was planning on running a ported SRT manifold, 3" o2 housing & downpipe and a bored srt turbo housing with 20g internals with an AGP wastegate. I've been told that's kind of a waste of money for the amount of power it'll be puting out.

So what other turbo setup for your recomend for around $550? That $550 has to include the manifold, turbo and wastegate. I'd be paying $400 for my ported TD04 housing w 20g wheel, $100 for the ported manifold & $50 for the AGP wastegate.

At this point in my built I have the motor pretty much assembled and ready to run low compression n/a. As the car sits right now it has:
2.4 Stratus motor.
Balance shafts removed.
SRT-4 piston/rods.
SRT-4 oil pan, gasket & oil system.
DCR oil flow modifier
DCR pick-up tube.
SRT-4 water pump.
SRT-4 tensioner.
ARP head studs.
AMM intake manifold.
Hondata intake manifold gasket.
MPX 60mm throttle body.
Unorthodox race udp.
Gates racing timing belt.

I'm about to install the head, I can etheir use 2.0 cams or the set of Crane 12's that I have lying around. I was also planning on picking up a set of Fidanza cam gears.
I think that part of my build is pretty set. Do you agree?

Just wanted to get the motor assembled and running n/a to make sure everything is built and that there are no wiring problems before I throw the whole thing together.

I'm just looking for as much input as possible. I'm not in a super big hurry to finish up the turbo part of this build and it doesn't have to be super streetable. I have these parts lying around at the moment:

Complete SRT turbofold.
Forward motion block-off plate.
SRT intercooler.
Two boxes of intercooler piping.
Crane valvetrain.
Walbro 255 fuel pump.
Vortec FMU.
Map clamp.
Stage1 injectors.

I'm thinking more & more about running Megasquirt, but that'll come a little later on in the build.

So what changes do you recomend with my current motor setup? The first list of parts in my original post was just what I was hoping to comeout with when I'm completely done.