I guess I screwed up the wording in my last thread and it went tits up in a hurry, so let me try again...

If you had an almost unlimited budget, let's say $2500, and you were putting together an AR carbine, how would you outfit it?  I'm just curious what parts, brands, etc, that you guys would use.  I'd like your opinions of the best of each item.

Lower Receiver
Parts Kit
Trigger, if different from above
Upper Receiver
B/BC/CH
Barrel (brand, length, profile)
Flash Hider
Handguards/Rails
Buttstock
Light
VFG, if you use one
Pistol Grip
Optic
Optic Mount
BUIS
Sling
Magazines (including springs, followers, or other mag accessories)
Anything else, tactical latch, trigger guard, etc

MEGA or BUSHMASTER lower
rra lpk
LMT complete upper
YHM FFH
phantom
magpul stock and rail covers
aimpoint or ACOG
CQB 3 point sling
ptr or badger (new one) latch

everything else in:
USGI mags
and federal xm-193 ammo

Lower Receiver
     -MEGA
Parts Kit
     -COLT
Trigger, if different from above
     -LMT 2 Stage
Upper Receiver
      -LMT
B/BC/CH
       -RRA or Bushmaster
Barrel (brand, length, profile)
  -LMT 16" M4
Flash Hider
  -A2
Handguards/Rails
  -Larue 7.0
Buttstock
   -Vltor Clubfoot Carbine
Light
    -Surefire 6P
VFG, if you use one
    -Tangodown or Dieter CQB
Pistol Grip
   -Tangodown Battlegrip
Optic
   - Aimpoint ML2
Optic Mount
    -Larue
BUIS
    -Larue
Sling
    -Spectre Gear SOP
Magazines (including springs, followers, or other mag accessories)
USGI 30 Rounders, No Mods
Anything else, tactical latch, trigger guard, etc
PRI Gas Buster

Basicly this.....



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STAG lower
RRA lower kit
11.5" A2 upper
Phantom
Daniel Defense CAR rail
VLTOR Clubfoot Carbine
Tangodown
MIAD
Aimpoint
Beta C-Mag

My dream carbine is not an AR

My dream carbine is something simple, light (<6 lbs.), reliable and uncomplicated:  
Upper, Lower, barrel, CH, bolt and related bits:
Off the shelf Bushmaster Carbon 15 series pistol turned SBR or Model 4
Hand guards / Rails:
The lightest hand guards available, no heavy rail systems
Stock:
The lightest available (standard 6 position?)
Flash Hider:
Phantom seems like the best deal so I put that on my SBR, no plans to change the one that comes standard on the Model 4
Sling:
any fairly wide 3 or single point model
Optics:
Eotech 552
Grip:
Hogue Grip
FVG & Light:
TangoDown Forward vertical grip & 'shoot me' light (still not 100% sold on my need for these though I have both a TDI vertical grip and a mount + surefire on my C15 SBR).

Happy Switch

1) Colt LE6920, LMT M4, or Colt Government Carbine  (average price about $1000)
2) Light: probably a set of  M500A handguards or a 674 system ($350)
3) Sling: Spectre single point sling ($30)
4) 10 USGI magazines ($120)
5) 5,000 M193
6) 1,000 M855