gjpjr84

ha! someone else has noticed that difference. its been there for ever but no, when i say something then i am dismissed as being ignorant.

but ye a picture would be great!

TongMan

i want to see pictures.

SkaTG2k3

+1

gjpjr84

wow im not the only one who wants pics now? cool im not just being annoying then!

05-RS1

haha yeh its definitely a different shaft for those of you that dont believe..im uploading the pics right now..

05-RS1

sorry for the dirty engine bay..its been a while since i cleaned it up. and the fingerprints on the shaft are from the guys that installed it..i hope that comes off later.. and i jus took these pics right now so they prolly not that great in quality. i had a flashlight so any weird orange light is prolly from the flashlight lol

ERIC-TC

I think that the shinny shaft is more than just a cosmetic change. I wonder if TRD changesd the material to one that is not affected as much by the heat? Can you take pictures of your bracket? It may also be different... Where is your heat shield?

SkaTG2k3

wow... your shaft looks so nice as compared to where your waste exits, but it seems like you have been touching your shaft a little too much!

(worded questionably on purpose)

gjpjr84

thats def a different shaft then what you first had

which proves what i said months ago. and also proves that it almost seem that its luck of the draw at which shaft you get cause on m/t that was posted a long while ago had the shiny shaft too.

05-RS1

thanks for posting the old pics! i couldnt remember where i put them.. lol i was gonna post before and after pic so others can see the difference. so the shiny shafts hav been out there? hmm..any of the shiny ones experience the oil leak?

gjpjr84

yea and a friend of mine, his first s/c (which did give him the dreaded problems) looked like it had the non-shiny shaft and he got his when it first came out.

05-RS1

the shinier one can help with heat rejection. hopefully its some sort of heat reflecting material.

my swaintech coated AW header should be coming in anyday now.

SkaTG2k3

yeah, i hear heat coating the headers is a must!

gjpjr84

if i do get a header i would think coating it would look a lot nicer than the ugly looking wrap. but i cant say i have ever seen a coated header before though

SkaTG2k3

doesn't IceNine's supercharged tc have coating?

when karl installed them


when he coated them


notice the difference?

(it seems like whenever ANYBODY wants an answer to a problem, IceNine already did it! I quote him like every five minutes!)

gjpjr84

if thats what it looks like then that is MUCH nicer than wraping them.

05-RS1

my header should be coming back this monday or tues

05-RS1

nvm, it came it today! check it out






it's not black..it's still has its mirror finish right there, jus a bad angle lol

it's not ur regular type of ceramic coating. i got it coated by swaintech. and it's not smoothe either, feels like sand paper. hopefully i hav some time in the near future to put this on and see how much of a temp difference it'll be.

oh forgot, it's an alphawerks header.

peteyd

hey john wanna go down the spur some time?

krdshrk

They were jet-hot coated when he installed the headers.