Welcome to the club brother,
let me say this, if you want to play hard and safe you must spend, another thing i learned is not to be a numbers guy, peak numbers means nothing if your powerband is shit, that is why not all tuners are good, one can yield high peak numbers and drop the powerband early, my car for instance is around 650whp, and it keeps making good power on powerband, the video bellow shows you when i went to mexico, i was filming 2 gtrs race, red one was full bolt ons and full e85 tuned, white one was 1000whp i heard, i was just on my regular 93 gas as i was not racing
i have done 7k miles raced on track several times with 0 issues, again anyone can make numbers but no real results, kevin baldi is a low key person but produces very fast cars, as matter of fact the day i went to tune my car one of his customers f80m3 went 10.3 the day before and he was driving the car like it was just a regular m3.