I decided that im going to rebuild my KA, because for one my HG is blown, and now ever since I've taken my thermostat out I can smell it burning off at idle, and can even see the white smoke now. Second because my KA has 174,xxx miles and I'm not going to start building it for track days and drift sessions if it's gonna blow up on my 1st run lol.
I was planning on keeping it simple, gasket set, ARP head bolts (cometic metal gasket and head bolts are being shipped right meow)
rod bolts, rod bearings, main bearings, and having the head hot tanked at a local machine shop. Probably going to have them do the valve stem seals as well. I was probably going to do a new O2 sensor and temp sensors too.
Then while it's all disassembled I was going to clean the block up as best as I could.

Would that suffice for a pretty decent rebuild for the long haul, it's also my daily and I want it to last me a long time, I'm slowly collecting the parts I need, but if anyone can tell me how I can do it better, I'll just keep collecting the parts and do it all, I just don't want to spend TOO much money and wait a super long time before I can start investing in a bushing set, coilovers, intakes blah blah all the fun stuff haha.

If my initial plan will serve me well for a few years I'll stick with it, but if anyone has any input on better ideas, shoot em at me.