Well the car has gone back to the farm in Silverstone to have a nice stay with Matt and the VW in the unit next door!
I may end up having my own custom manifold made, as the lead time for AMWmotorsport is looking to be a bit longer than I need - partly down to the other guy taking a bit longer to get his hands on his turbo and partly Ade's workload... but we will see.
Plans as it stands for the car:
MOT & service
Waxoil and clear up the surface rust on the car - It was an advisory last year
fit the new Turbo
Fit custom exhaust manifold
Build and fit custom airbox
New exhaust downpipe - if the existing one can't mate up easily
Battery to boot to give more space for the airbox
Sort the cracked bumper it picked up last year with Matt
Have ECU remapped to suit the new VNT controller - done by post with failsafe values to start with
Fit the VNT controller
This will take a few months at least I am sure, as things have not been able to fall into place for a quick turn around I was hoping for, but should be done before the end of teh year.
Then I will get some more injectors made up, and then book it in for a long dyno session to remap again to suit these new injectors - smoke being an issue for VNT's and the vane getting clogged, but more fuel = better spool so there is a balance to be had!