[Msquared]

I can vouch that Turn One steering pumps are great on track. Before I bought my 2020 1LE, I had a 96 Corvette with one of their pumps in it. With 11" wheels and 315 tires front and rear and a stock cooler line, that car could run laps until it ran out of gas on a hot Texas summer day and never have any steering issues.

My C4 had the same front bearings your car has. As already noted, they suck. It used to be that you could at least get some life out of them if you used expensive OE bearings or one of the other big name brands. But now they are all made in China. Luckily they are very easy to replace, but who wants to jack around with that in the middle of a track day? Strano sells the kit you'll want, which adapts SKF X-tracker hubs to your knuckles. I think it's about $1000 for both fronts. Consider yourself luck: the C4 also has shitty rear bearings, with no upgrade options!

The rebuilt optispark from "optidoc" is the best way to address that issue. Most replacement units these days are garbage, but Petris and AIP are supposed to be pretty good. The MSD cap and rotor that optidoc put on yours are great, but the MSD opti replacement is junk. Optidoc uses original Mitsubishi sensors and tests each one. The bearing on these doesn't live forever, but if you keep your engine stock and never go past redline it should last a long time.

I wish I had good info for you about the oil temps. I'd probably want a cooler added if I were you. My C4 had a nice Setrab cooler in front of the radiator. It was a 396 with heads and cam (would pull a stock C6 Z06), yet oil temps never got high on track. You may be able to do without that given less power. Only way to know is to try it.