Turbo Beams? Options

[Espo]

Alright, I've run into a dilemma here. I was under the impression that the 3S-GTE was a red top beams engine, and was planning on swapping that into my ST later next year.

Now, I saw someone's thread in the general discussion forum and it seems the beams is only a 3S-GE, but the 4th generation of the 3S engine.

However, toyota engine code has been explained (as I understand it) as (Engine generation #)(Letter representing engine family)-(features, I.E. G being for performance, T for Turbo, E meaning EFI) so wouldn't this make the beams a 4S-GE...? I'm confused.

Nonetheless, I'm curious as to whether a 3S-GTE Red Top BEAMS was ever produced, or if turboing a beams is possible/practical as compared to just swapping in a 3rd gen 3S-GTE. I wanna hit 300-350whp fairly soon after my swap. I've been doing a lot of reading into the 3S and beams, but clearly I was understanding, lol.

Thanks in advance for any info/help.

[D-Man]

edit: OP not necessary. (i find it clutters things)

inaccurate. note that some things are "enthusiast labeled"; especialy when you get into the different "names" of turbochargers used between the various generations of the standard 3sgte. 4th gen 3sgte was the Cadalina. (witch was only installed in some minivan in japan )

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldina

here ya go!

http://www.6gc.net/information
http://www.6gc.net/information/3
http://www.6gc.net/information/7
http://www.6gc.net/information/13
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_3S-GE_engine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_S_engine




hope this clears things up a bit. (REMEMBER!! WIKI and HOWSTUFFWORKS.com are you're biggest allies)

This post has been edited by D-Man: Apr 1, 2010 - 3:37 PM

[Espo]

edit: OP not necessary. (i find it clutters things)

inaccurate. note that some things are "enthusiast labeled"; especialy when you get into the different "names" of turbochargers used between the various generations of the standard 3sgte. 4th gen 3sgte was the Cadalina. (witch was only installed in some minivan in japan )

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldina

here ya go!

http://www.6gc.net/information
http://www.6gc.net/information/3
http://www.6gc.net/information/7
http://www.6gc.net/information/13
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_3S-GE_engine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_S_engine




hope this clears things up a bit. (REMEMBER!! WIKI and HOWSTUFFWORKS.com are you're biggest allies)

Ha, re-reading the info articles now that I know a tad more makes things make a little more sense now. Thanks.

Edit: According to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_S_engine

The 3S-GTE that went into the Caldina GT-T/GT-Four was (obviously) turboed, and puts out more power than the Celica GT-Four 3S-GTE - is that a turboed red top or black top, maybe?

This post has been edited by Espo: Apr 2, 2010 - 2:35 AM