Done a couple of hours of fettling today.
Boost gauge is now fixed - rubber elbow in the engine bay had split. MP3 player fitted and sounds suprisingly good, although cannot get MP3s to play off a CD at the moment, works off a USB stick though. Crappy frosted rear lights have been swapped for some nicer ones which has made the car look much tidier. Went to fit strut brace, but the ABS ECU mounts on the n/s strut so need to modify that, but couldn't be bothered today. The bar also sits very close to the master cylinder, apparently because mine's and early car so has a larger one. Hopefully it'll be ok, but I'll need to watch it in case it rubs badly. Also removed a plastic protector from behind the grill - nice idea for keeping stones out, but blocks about 3/4 of the airflow to the intercooler / rad - I think I'll risk it!
Tomorrow it'll be washed (and maybe polished) if the weather's nice. But in the mean time here's a couple of pics and a cheeky little vid of a how well she goes (not doing bad for 170k miles and 14 years old!).