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@Danny has hit nail right on the head. I would take both his and @hanifs advice seriously.

It's an amazing place for your type of people who appreciate the older beauties. It has awesome collection of antique cars that rainbow sheikh bought them at bulk from coloring 7 merc for 7 days a week, and making the biggest dodge truck with human size tire size and so on. Don't want to reveal all wow factor if you want to visit as it's def a worth a visit for once in a lifetime. I have been there few years back I think in 2012/13 when they were about to set all cars ready for public display and start charging the entrance fees as per the new setup. I spent about an hour but in rush-rush way and I suggest keep at least 2-3 hours in hand to enjoy thoroughly and appreciate it. Below is a teaser for you to have a lunch in a enormous size defender working as a restaurant (more kind of cafeteria).

The easiest and best thing you if you want a turbo can do is phone around the scrapyards in Sharjah and see if you can find someone with a crashed 308 GTi and ask them to sell you a front cut, complete with engine, gearbox, wiring, ECU, key and switch etc. then swap everything over onto your own car. They come with a 1.6 turbo engine and around 200 BHP. Fitting a turbo onto your own engine will be a real headache. Before I came to Dubai, I was in the process of turboing my Peugeot 205, diesel though but I'm also going for the 200 BHP mark. I spent a fortune on parts and most of them weren't easy to find as it's such an old car. Maybe I'll finish it someday.

@amidThose guys who get Patrol and LC mod with turbo has a proven history of doing things right including flashing the ECU with new program, as there are 100's of car they have installed before. @Shams the key for you is to find a garage who carry out such mod and ask them for full cost and guarantee before pursuing. There was a guy here before who was great with Peugeot advices theo @207_gti consult him for his experience in Peugeot mod, I am sure he knows lot of in and out of Peugeot world.

It's a great place to visit for car enthusiast's, just before you go call them in advance and check if they are open. As one of my friend visited few months back said they were closed for renovation for one day only.

Hi Shams, Yes, adding a turbo will definitely affect your warranty, but that is the least of your problems. Adding a turbo to any non-turbo engine has many problems, since the ECU is not programmed to handle the additional signals required to make the turbo work properly. For one thing, the ECU on your standard engine does not have a circuit to control the turbo boost. You can of course change the ECU, but remember that the new ECU may not be able to handle the signals from the sensors on a non-turbo engine effectively. There are lots of other differences to keep in mind. For instance, the standard ECU is programmed to manage an engine without boost, meaning that basic baseline settings such as ignition mapping, fuel delivery, air flow (both inlet and exhaust) and others need to change to accomodate the turbo. However, anything is possible, but to get the car running right might cost you more than you would have paid for a turbo model, so I would not advise you to try this. You might find that the car never runs right, no matter how much money you spend on it.