Sw20 3sgte rebuild

Hey all, so I recently blew the head gasket in my mr2 which had been sittin around for a year with out so much as being kicked in the guts.. I want to rebuild the motor gut the cooling system and inter cooler ( fit new breaks,suspension etc) ...

Wondering if anyone has any recommendations in regards to good robust parts such as inter coolers ,radiators, hoses and pipes ? Im pretty clueless when it comes to performance ... But my car will be with a mechanic soon and I just want to give him an idea of what I want , cheers guys all recommendations ar welcome

Yeah mate it over heated 3 times on the drive up from Sydney to brisbane.. For a car that always runs fairly cool I found that odd... Plus I flushed it out a few times each time for about 2 hours and its filled with rust n crud.. I figured if I'm going to be working the motor and getting more horse I may as well have a new cooling system, what do you think?

Changing the old coolant pipes isn't a bad idea. Just go with genuine Toyota there, absolutely nothing wrong with them. As for the radiator, you can simply have it removed & serviced. They'll take it apart & clean the core thoroughly & re-weld it. If there's any small leaks, they'll weld those too. If the radiator's too far gone, which I doubt it is (ie been taken apart too many times etc), they'll simply tell you upfront. That'd be the most sensible & economical way of getting it done IMO.
 
Add to that as mentioned, a new genuine thermostat, 1.3bar radiator cap, RED coolant (if he puts in green, tell him to do it again even if he doesn't agree) & new water pump if you're rebuilding.
 
For the intercooler, sky's kinda the limit there. Cheaper bolt on mod type option is an ebay sidemount with upgraded fan (wired direct), otherwise you have W2A or trunk mount.
 
Good luck!

^not sure about a 1.3 BAR rad cap Jay, when we changed to the stock 0.9 BAR cap on a mates gen2 3sgte it solved his random overheating issues.

Did you test the cap? Just like OEM caps, aftermarket caps fail too. My TRD 1.3 failed, but that's due to all the gunk etc that passed through it from headgasket & block failures.
 
If he has a new cap, hoses, clean rad, the cap will be perfectly fine.

Well when it was overheating I had a look and the Coolant was bubbling out through a gasket on the top side of the motor, I haven't tested the cap yet I don't have all the right gear but ill be getting the mechanic to have a bo peep for me
I always wanted to work the motor so I guess this is a good way to get my ass into gear n boost.. I was also thinking bigger turbo rather then the one that comes stock with the gen3

Yeah and the cars only done 160,000 but who knows what previous owners were like to her...I have had the car a year and a half and the only problem I've had was an electric fault which kept causing the car to stop idling then the car would die when ever I accelerated but after that was fixed its been good...
Cars are a love hate relationship, I hate to love em... Before the hg I was already going to upgrade ecu boost control and that until something blew, got what I wished for early now I'll be expecting a 15,000 bill . Fmd lol

yep, brand new in box. gen3 has metal hg standard.