Thank you.
If it wasn't that your car bites like a pit bull, I would have said to throw that 20-30 lbs in the trunk.
As far as paint, being that you are going to run a race pac and other various gauges on the board, I'd keep the dash as it is....Though , have you checked if the cross fibers of the dash top give off a distracting reflection from the windshield?

If anything, I'd paint the top portion a matte/flat black and leave the face in the natural fibers.