Is your college teaching you how to use proper grammar, punctuation, and capital letters, because obviously your high school didn’t.
OK, assuming an owner with less mechanical ability and experience than you, how is the Merkur as a daily driver?
If you’re going to pick on someone’s grammar, best to first make sure yours is up to snuff. Get rid of the run-on sentence, and don’t end an interrogatory statement with a period.
Look. By the time you get done with college, get a job, and can afford to seriously modify your car, you’re going to be able to afford to get a better platform to modify. The only way you’re going to mod and competitively race a car while still in college is to take out student loans and spend the money on your car. I’ve known people who have done that, but now they’re hurting. It sucks to have to pay off 30 grand when you get out of college, and you don’t even have much to show for the money you borrowed.
I’m assuming your local tracks are dragstrips? It’s fairly rare for a real race track (sorry, couldn’t resist the dig) to have regular street-car race days, and usually at minimum they require a roll cage if they let you go out there at all.
If so, you want something RWD and that’s competitive out of the box. So, a Firebird, a Mustang, a Camaro Z28, something like that.
That said, what you really should do is get into bracket racing. You can win races in a minivan in that category, as long as you’re good enough that you hit your times consistently.
And THAT said, what you really should do is forget drag racing, and get a sport compact car like the Integra, or a Miata (assuming you don’t need cargo room) so that you have something reliable and relatively fuel efficient for driving around, but that’s fun to run at an autocross.
It’s going to cost you a lot of money to turbocharge an RSX. First, the base turbo kit is going to run you probably around 5 grand. Then you need to get a programmable ECU. Then you need to get it programmed properly, which even if you do it yourself will involve dyno time, and that costs a lot of money. And you have an extra complication with the RSX because VTEC and boost don’t tend to play nice with each other without a lot of tweaking.
Fastest in a straight line? Mustang GT.
Fastest in bad weather or on twisty road? Early 2000’s Subaru WRX.
Fastest around the track? Unless it’s a really high speed track, a Mazda Miata.