[Diabeetus]

With just bushings your car will NOT out handle vettes and vipers. It will reduce hop and handle a little better. If you go to 03-04 half shafts you will have to get a new carrier because yours is a 28 spline. Spider gears have nothing to do with it so I dont know what Mr Soup was talking about. I have 4.10s in my '01 and love them. My freeway RPM went from 2150 at 80mph to about 2650 at 80 mph. The gears really wake the car up. I feel the 4.10s are great, but I might have gone with 4.30s had the others not been free.

Get the IRS diff cover brace for sure, and at least replace the subframe bushings with polys.