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Hi All, New to this forum, new to skodas so wanted to join up here and get some much needed knowledge on the cars. Yesterday i purchased this lovely bit of kit 2004, Octavia VRS Estate, completely standard and needing some TLC Interestingly it came with a tilt and slide sunroof, something i've not seen before whilst looking through the classifieds as well as a few other nice bits and bobs, electric mirrors with heating element, full working trip (i wonder how accurate they are) 90% Skoda service history, brand new clutch, cambelt and waterpump done last year, so all in all, pretty decent. As it goes, touching 20 years old, few things need doing, such as: Fixing the god awful creak coming from the front of the car, plan to do a whole poly bush upgrade over the course of the next few months Fixing the rear passenger side window, can hear the motor going up and down but no window movement, bit weird?? Fix the boaty ride by fitting coilovers Rear spoiler needs painting, definitely had a rather rough life looking at it Overall health check, having had a few 20vt's in the past i know its not uncommon for hoses to split and despite this being factory fresh, i am 110% convinced i have a boost leak somewhere so i need to book in for a smoke test Alignment - not sure if this is part and parcel to the creaking and worn bushes but the car drives straight and true, the steering wheel is just out of alignment which is annoying Replace the cassette player deck with a nice android touch screen double din unit, going off ebay prices can be done for sub £100 which is nice and will massively bring the car into the modern era of bluetooth connectivity and sat nav In the long run im looking to take this 20vt further than my previous ones, always stalled at the 270/280 bhp and 300ft lbs mark due to rods. All being well i plan on doing the following aswell as the above r-tec remap, heard very good things about nicky badger 5 tip ebay 'wellycooler' intercooler and piping Cat back exhaust, twin pipes however not the oval, not too keen on the shape New DV, upgrade to a forge one A decent cold air intake (will take recommendations) Remove and blank off the SAI Bypass the N249 Valve Adding a catch can into the PCV system Upgrade dog bone mount and then stick a set of forged rods in there, granted this will leave me still cutting about with a k03s but once all the build up work is done i'll be able to save up for a gt28 or similar Im not looking for silly power however something in the region of 330-350bhp and close to or over 400ft/lbs Thankfully alot of the above can be done for not alot of money, so im itching to get my teeth stuck into it All in all, very happy with it, the mrs is yet to come around but hopefully the above can change that.