thanks for the welcome guys. i ended up buying a chinese turbo for the car due to short funds and all that being a mature student

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it was the k04-001 but on inspection i turns out its a k03 platform but with full k04 internals by looking at it.
it was from XS-power about a year and a half ago and they describe it as being simular to the E05 hybrid.
i moved house since then and no longer have a garage to work on the car in

(missus got her way with that one) lol .
the turbo itself appears to be o.k. i`ve not had it on the road yet to test it yet but i got some load on the engine and it seems to boost up o.k.
the car itself is pretty much the same as how i left it before i moved house apart from fitting an oil catch tank.
i got the mot next friday and hope to tax it the same day so rave on