Mate you can get fantastic handling with a stock style setup.
I have the Open Tracker blue printed upper arms and bearing lower arms, plus adjustable strud rods and roller spring perches. It handles very well. I have done some motorkhana stuff with it and it was fine.
Also, forget the scott drake springs. Get the king springs KFFL-59, they are progressive, cheap and made in aus.
And for shocks the best you can get is the bilstein setup. It is great.
I have a unisteer rack as I'm LHD, however, I have done a fair bit of research and the TCP racks are the best out there(cost is why I went with unisteer). Lots of horror stories on the net with the RRS gear.