i'd just get it tuned first. worry about the paint later.
800-900 includes what?
You have to buy the chip to have burned with your tune and that like 200 bucks, and a complete drivibility tune takes a couple hours to do. Most shops charge 135 an hour to tune. Hit any little snags and it gets expensive fast.
I'm also hung up on weather or not to try a smaller blower pulley (sitting in the garage). Right now I'm about 6psi and I think my injectors are near maxed out. So if I up the boost then I'll need some bigger injectors, bigger injectors need a new MAF. The snow ball effect is kicking me ass.