Yeah I was assuming more skill rather than not... But there are plenty of ways to make a turbo setup daily driver reliable, especially if you're not going huge.
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I say ebay turbo (keep the exhaust/injectors) and get a socketed ECU to have a proper tune put on it. Just be careful of the auto trans cuz they ain't cheap!
The one thing that you haven't really considered here is the gear ratios of the transmission. The automatic LS transmission has the crappiest (and by crappiest, I mean the longest and most gas-mileage conscious gear ratios out of the whole B-series bunch).
a jdm b16a sir-ii hydrolic tranny will bolt right up and is available in automatic and has better gearing. sir-g (jdm gsr) too, but those are more rare and not as big of a gearing change.