Update
I have never got round to doing any videos of my car and the turbo response, this is partly as I've been occupied at other more interesting/ important things and also due to the fact videoing this car on the road with its current level of performance may not be wise. So I am going to postpone that idea until I get to a track or dyno.
However I have been doing a few things that may be interesting. I have been expanding the capabilities of Augtronic on my car and am now running throttle and RPM based boost control which are working very well and I find makes the car much nicer to try and control.
I also have installed a turbo speed sensor which I am also logging through the ECU which means I am now able to put a fairly accurate number on how much power the car is producing based on the air going through the turbo.
Here is an EFR matchbot that is based upon data from logs. EFR Matchbot 7064
This log shows the throttle based boost control in operation as I struggle to get traction in 1st.
This log shows a 2nd, 3rd and some of 4th gear. As can be seen from the acceleration values the car pulls very consistently to 6800rpm.
In this log the AFR's are a bit rich, I now have it running between 11 - 11.5 AFR. Interestingly it feels quite a bit quicker with AFRs around 11. The external ADC is the turbo speed and is a fraction of 5v, it tops out at 6400rpm and is doing 112,000rpm at that point.
On the response the turbo only looses around 30,000rpm during a gear change and from throttle open to 2200mbars absolute is 300ms which interestingly is around the time it takes for a humans eye to blink 
At this stage I think the engine is at the limit of it internals. I only have two things I'd like to do to the current engine which are to try a few things to smooth out the boost curve a bit and also I am in the process of upgrading to a better ignition system to improve engine efficiency.
I will update the progress on my new engine in due course.
Regards,
Rob
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