Haven't had much time to mess with it as yet cos of my dad getting a kidney transplant plus he has other health issues which means I've almost become his full-time carer which doesn't fit too well with my computer repair business ... in other words, not much spare time for playing with the car

But so far I've done:

Complete timing kit change, inc tensioners, injector pump belt etc etc

Done away with the stock air filter pipe and filter box, the pipe on them seems to take a long & roundabout route to the ram pipe at the front of the engine bay, What I have now is just a small 45 degree elbow, the maf (which is off a 2.0 mondeo and I've polished it to a fairly high degree) is fitted directly to the elbow and a heatshielded cone filter fitted directly to the maf. Much better!

The pipe coming off the intercooler to the turbo wasn't fitted correctly, it has 'ribs' on it which I assume is to allow for extension/expansion and it looked like someone thought these were for the jubilee clip to fit into, consequently the pipe came adrift, fitted it back on poroperly so now the turbo actually works!

There was a lot of slack (easily two inches worth) on the throttle cable, I took out this slack using the adjuster where it fits onto the diesel pump, hardly any adjustment left on it now so I'm thinking it might be worth replacing the cable

I have read that the engine can be made to rev more freely by removing the throttle mechanism shock absorber, haven't done this cos I don't know know what the shock absorber looks like or where to find it lol

What I've done so far has made a huge difference to how the car drives so I've got off to a good start

I''m planning on a stainless cat-back exhaust next, then most likely fit a boost controller and take a look at upping the fuelling a little, the video that was posted looks like it would be useful here, but when I open it I don't get any sound

I also have some heat wrap left over that I thought I may as well put on the exhaust downpipe coming off the manifold, figure that might help make it less of an 'inter warmer' as it should help lessen the amount of heat rising off it and warming the bottom of the intercooler

I'm also liking the idea of front mounting the intercooler but I'm not sure if that's something I'd wanna take on doing myself, so I'll check out how much it'd cost me to get someone else to do it