Matt's turbo is in it's normal place mate, what your looking at is a rather large looking dump valve, also has the standard cat fitted.Cat removed and a decent manifold is the first mod to do if you want a bit more out of the car. The auto box there's nothing you can do to it unless you take it out and go manual. Sounds like you have got a right big shopping list there of things to do, be careful mate these cars can soon eat your money up haha.