Your car should have a td05 as std.
You say its a tired car, in what way - mileage? If you're on a budget then firstly I wouldn't be upping the power unless you have funds to cater for possible engine / gearbox failures since lets face it a high mileage 16 year old car is going to be tired!
But the TD05 can be tuned to 350 HP with a few bolt on mods and a remap.
IMO best thing to do is give the car the best possible chance - run it on Vpower only, change all fluids, plugs and cambelt if you don't know its history
I'd go for a quality 5w40, Silkolene PRO S for the engine, Castrol driveline 75w90 for gearbox and rear diff. NGK PFR 7B gapped to 0.7
I would then uprate the brakes as already mentioned.
I would also take the car to SRR and get Charlie and Simon check it over regarding the cars power and fuelling, its always best to know if the engine is OK and the fuelling is OK, if fuelling isn't OK then you could run with booster to see if it helps, otherwise you could run actuator pressure until you can afford a remappable ECU / ESL / scoobyECU
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