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Are your headers ceramic coated? They still get really hot?

No, and yes they get fairly hot.
Ceramic coating the exhaust is on my to do list.


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Lucas
No, and yes they get fairly hot.
Ceramic coating the exhaust is on my to do list.

Might be worth wrapping them or making some exhaust shields as well.

Very nice build Lucas, exactly something I'd like to do with mine, especially it being a 3SGE at the moment.
Would anyone happen to know what exactly the swap will involve? I'm basically already sorted with the engine and can pick it up whenever I'm ready, but would like to get everything ready so the car isn't off the road for too long and all the parts are sourced myself.
Will the stock 3SGE gearbox etc. hold the power increase or will that all have to go?

ro55or
Very nice build Lucas, exactly something I'd like to do with mine, especially it being a 3SGE at the moment.
Would anyone happen to know what exactly the swap will involve? I'm basically already sorted with the engine and can pick it up whenever I'm ready, but would like to get everything ready so the car isn't off the road for too long and all the parts are sourced myself.
Will the stock 3SGE gearbox etc. hold the power increase or will that all have to go?

Don't know heaps but I do know the stock 3SGE gearbox won't hold if you're going V6 or forced induction. Some people have said it does work with the S54 series gearbox (that comes with the 3SGE), but you are going to break it eventually if you do that. You'll have to get yourself a turbo gearbox - the E153 series

was good to meet you at the track Lucas, albeit breifly. I said gday as you were about to go on track. 

Pitty we didnt get to have a chat about the cars - maybe next year

Thanks for the kind words, although my car didn't look no where near as pretty as others, but that's what happens when you spend up on safety first :) 
It was nice to meet everyone at the MTC, shame I couldn't do the 2nd day.
 

ro55or
Will the stock 3SGE gearbox etc. hold the power increase or will that all have to go?

The power delivery in a turbo engine is not as linear/smooth as a V6. The gearbox in a turbo engine experiences a "power shock" during spirited driving, therefore E153 is stronger (and heavier) to withstand that shock. S54 does work with V6 engines, plenty of 3VZ and 1MZ conversions use it (my old 3VZ worked fine with it, and Knightrous's 1MZ SW20 did pretty well with it last week in MTC). I don't know anyone however uses S54 with 2GR.
And just FYI going from S54 to E153 requires hubs and axles form a Turbo SW20.
If I'm going from 3SGE SW20 to V6, I'd keep the lighter S54 (although LSD it).
 

Lucas
I don't know anyone however uses S54 with 2GR.

Paul Woods from Woodsport had his Supercharged 2GR running on a S54 for a while.
I believe he then switched over to an EA60 6 speed.

The S54 can probably withstand the 3VZ and 1MZ, but for a 2GR I'm fairly sure it's a bad idea. Yes it can work, but you'll end up breaking the box if you ever launch it too hard - so you'll always be skating on thin ice

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