The lid looks great Declan. What are the next steps for the beast?

Thanks mate. The boost controller is still an issue and is slowly becoming more unreliable and the Jap modified ECU that came with the half cut isn't optimised for the conditions here in Australia. So my plans for 2014 is to kill these two birds with one stone and invest into a standalone ECU that has an internal boost controller so that I can have the car tuned to maximise the stock setup. 

Sounds like a good idea. What ECU are you thinking?

So far I have been looking at a Haltech (Sport 1000) or either Adaptronic as they have a plug and play ECU for SW20s. This is something I'll be running by MRC in the new year to see what they think is best and/or what other options are available. 

Maybe also look up the Link G4 Storm ECU as well.  I spoke to Mark regarding ECU's a while ago (as i also want to replace mine) and he says that the Link G4 has the most user friendly software and is the easiest to map
 

Thats good to know, thanks Shamus. Ill do some research on the Link as well then. Ultimately I will want to go with whatever they feel comfortable tuning plus when it comes to wiring it up; if there is something I get stuck on I would want them to be familiar with it too. 

Fair enough too.  I know that i'm no good with electrical stuff so I'm going to get Mark and the boys to do everything for me haha

Haha that's it. Im going to give the wiring a go but I dont think I'll be surprised if I have to get them to do it in the end.

just be careful doing the wiring yourself and not completing it.
 
Most tuners prefer to start from scratch with a wiring loom rather then sorting out someone elses mess they couldn't finish.

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just be careful doing the wiring yourself and not completing it.
 
Most tuners prefer to start from scratch with a wiring loom rather then sorting out someone elses mess they couldn't finish.

Yeah this is very true!
If you choose to do some of the wiring yourself, you should write down exactly what you have done and what you haven't done, so whoever finishes it will have no doubts or confusion.
 
BTW, I think the Adaptronic SW20 plug-in ECU is for the gen 2 turbo engine (you may want to confirm by emailing them). If you do end up going with Adaptronic, you could either use the plug-in ECU and re-pin your ECU plug to match the gen 2 turbo pinout, or you could use the e420d or e440d Universal Select ECU and wire it up manually (I would happily help you if you went down that route).