A610 power upgrades

As i am on the look for an A610, Just wanted to ask you who has upgraded the engines of their A610's and what is good and what is a no no! I also will be changing the brakes and suspension too as i will be trying to create an Alpine A610 GT3!!! Any info would be helpfull!

[BIG_MVS]

Dell Boy (Stephen Dell) has uprated brakes and suspension I am led to believe. Tony Smith has GTA with basically a 610 lump so there will be people to ask hopefully. Also Tim Jeffrey has modified his 610 for sprinting and hill climbs so maybe worth trying him for info.

I've not seen many modified A610's in this country (the Germans seem to be the ones that modify Alpine's). As Martin says, Tim Jeffries seems to have done the most in terms of modifying his A610 with performance in mind and he has a crackin looking car. The orange A610 (J466 JTP, originally blue has also had a fair bit done although I'm not sure much of it was performance related and it is no longer in this country anyway). I am looking at uprating brakes and suspension soon and changing hoses but I don't think I'll be doing too much with the engine.

[stephendell]

In terms of performance/handling rather than bling of which there is plenty inside also I have:

Stainless steel rear silencer
De-cat pipe
Turbosmart boost controller
Samco turbo hose
Seperate boost guage
(running between 0.9 - 1.0 bar boost)
Magnecor KV85 ignition leads
Hi Spec Two piece rotors and light alloy bells drilled front and rear
Hi Spec Billet 4 alloy calipers front
EBC pads
Image 3 piece wheels 17" Front 18" Rear
Ultra-High boiling point ATE fluid.

New rear wishbones and bushes to sharpen the handling.

I also have Spax A610 coil over dampers front and rear but haven't fitted them yet. (I have a spare pair of rears if anyone is interested).