Mods for water meth and not blowing the engine.

I'm sorry to make yet another post about mod list but I've been lurking on the forums for a bit since I bought my 17 about 6 months ago and relatively few are with water meth in mind. A close friend of mine who is a much more experienced builder swears up and down by water meth and I gotta say I'm convinced. A bit of background, I bought the car with 72k miles in Maryland. My father was a mechanic and MD has a pretty strict rust inspection so after looking over the car and talking to my aforementioned friend (who actually works for Opus) I decided to buy it. I just couldn't say no after that test drive. To put in bluntly, I'm head over heels for the car and have been itching since day 1 to do some of my own modifications to it. This is my daily and the first car I've ever had in my name.

After a small incident with a deer I cracked my radiator and needed a new bumper; the Mountune rad was basically a no brainer and I happened to catch a sale so I said screw it and ordered the FMIC as well. My original plan was to slowly buy all of the components for the B7 kit and tune it once I was done, after that I'd buy a water meth kit somewhere down the line and retune it. After some more digging around I've realized this plan isn't the brightest. Aside from the filter an intake doesn't really do much and neither do hot/cold pipes. Additionally it doesn't make much sense to pay Mountune for a tune and then pay for another tune with water meth (which I don't think they do), especially when water meth kits are one of the cheaper components I've mentioned. I think I'm still going to buy an intake, as that CF Cobb intake just looks too good but I might hold off on hot/cold pipes for a while.

This brings me to my other line of questions. How much can I realistically make before I risk blowing up my engine? 100mph pulls are pretty hard to do where I live and I mostly just give it the beans a couple times during my drive somewhere (can't be flooring that **** with these gas prices). I want to track it but there aren't any close to me and they're pretty expensive so MAYBE 1-3 times a year. So basically, my engine wouldn't get treated too harshly. That being said am I even going to reach danger zones with bolt ons and meth? I don't particularly want to get into fuel upgrades and I really don't have interest in doing a turbo swap atm. The B7 kit claimed about 380whp and 425wtq iirc, my buddy talked to a couple Ford master techs and they said that should be fine as long as I don't beat the hell out of the engine and that torque is really going to be the limiting factor. I'm unsure how much meth is going to boost those numbers but I've been told it's not really about gain so much as leveling out and extending my peak power. I've also seen some talk about tuning more for HP than TQ but given our engine I'm not convinced you can swing them too much either way.

So has anyone here done FBO + meth? Have you had any problems with your engine? Can I even fully utilize these upgrades without fuel upgrades? Should I look into reinforcing my cylinder wall? I plan on talking to both Randy and Adam as I've seen these are the main two trusted by everyone on here but I'm unsure if they even mess with meth kits. Also a RMM and Recirc valve are definitely still on the to buy list if that wasn't clear. Is there anything I'm missing?

Side note: After that deer incident I've also been looking into lightbars. Currently looking at either a 20in curved double row lightbar from Black Oak or the 30in. I posted on the lightbar mega thread but I've not gotten any responses so if anyone also happens to know anything about these it'd be much appreciated! My main concerns are if the 30in would fit "flush" in the front bumper and how much they'd realistically block airflow from the big mouth inlet if I ever decide to pick one up.