I thought some people might find this interesting, so I'll stick it up here as well.


I bought the car in late 2010 with 1500 miles on the clock and just enjoyed it for a while with the Mountune 185 kit and KW coilovers it came with. It didn't take long for me to start thinking about maybe having a little more power out of it.

One of the rare occasions it was actually clean:



A set of these was the first step:



Combine that with a beefy rear ARB, it left the car "quite stiff"





It was handling something like, so it was time to start thinking about squeezing a little more power out of it. Cue a bit of scheming with Will@RDT and a Gems EM36act ecu was on its way:




Common sense was definitely out the day I ordered one of these:





A Garrett GTX3071r turbo and TiAL .63A/R turbine housing


Now I needed a manifold to bolt it to :P

There were two options at this point; buy one ready made or make my own.

So naturally I took both options

I ended up buying this exhaust system:




But then got bored and had a crack at making one myself:







Since then I've sold the Primary Designs system. I liked the idea of using my own - It probably won't be as good, but for me there's a lot more personal satisfaction in making it myself!