do it yourself mate if youre in no rush, you can plod along with it then, and its not too hard a conversion once you get your head around it. i didnt do my car but ive helped along with others and gotta say its only the loom that causes probs, and theres wiring diagrams on what to do all over the net.

people go on about having to change sump, flywheel etc, 9 times out of 10 you have to swap a few bits over when swapping an engine anyway, even when its the same one.

and personally a grand budget is well easy if you do some work yourself, ive bought new engine, loads of turbo conversion parts, interior, wheels, paint, suspension etc for mine and ive tottted it up and it owes me right now, 1200 quid. bet you could pull a donor car from ebay for about 100 quid, or go to a scrappy and ask to buy a whole car, you take it, rip out all you want then weigh the bare shell in later