I've said it before but those wheels are PERFECT on your car. I like your style.
I finally got everything buttoned up and started the car. Swapped the turbo for another stocker, installed SURE Halos injector seals, JBR EGR delete, JBR thermal intake manifold gasket, and cleaned the intake valves. The valves were FILTHY. Extremely filthy. Did the walnut media blast with B-12 chemtool carb cleaner. Took me around 2 weeks since I had a couple of hours after work Mon-Thurs and was back in Columbus Friday-Sunday. It feels amazing to have everything together and the car running.
HUGE thank you to Jake (etipp) who helped me take stuff apart, lent me his media blasting gun and media along with other tools and helped me so much overall.
Also bought a driver's side axle off of fatti from an MS3 with 47K miles. When I replace that, all of the fixes will be complete for now.