gears would be very noticable in acceleration, you'll burn more gas & top speed will be reduced a bit but doubt you'll ever realize top speed. def a nice improvement in acceleration, worth it? depends if you think it is, it probaly is worth it but again, take a bit of research to see what fits the frontr & what is available
utec has it's advantages & then ts flash has it's benifits. best of both worlds may be just doing a "tuner flash" that ts can do, it's cheaper than a full flash but it gives you all the things that you woun't get with just a piggyback, 100% throttle, raise the speed limit & stuff, but no fuel or ignition alteration, then the piggyback takes over for that. think ts tuner flash is around $250... this with a dyno tune is probaly the best setup
& it has been mentioned that if a link is to another forum that requires log in to view then the pertanant info should also be copied & pasted here, but that was more specified for the "deals on other sites" thread, not sure if it's a rule in general but it is curtious to provide a copy/paste, but a link to show one guy something that you know he has access too isn't such a big deal either I think... edit: ah, it IS actualy a rule, thanks doc