New to the forum just had some questions regarding lowering and any engine upgrades.  My first question is in order to lower my car do I need to replace the stock shocks and struts?  Are there any upgrades that easily give more HP?  

Is your car completly stock and as for lowering you dont have to get shock and struts, you can deff. just buy some lowering springs but it is recommended in getting some coilover. If you go one ECS Tunning.com there are some FK Coilovers which I heard have good rep. As for HP something simple is you can cut some holes on the bottom of your air box and put in a K&N filter which will sound nice and provide a slight increase in power  

So far my car only has a new Magnaflow exhaust.  Other than that it is completely stock.  Thank you for the tips I was going to with the coil overs but just wanted to make sure that I did not have to change out shocks and struts.