I didn't do any actual work myself on the car - but did get a call from MRT with good news and not so great news. The new engine is in my 2013, and everything plumbed up ready to go! The not so great news: after filling the oil they discovered a crack in the oil pan. Looks like sitting on a pallet going cross country in a truck wasn't kind on the cast aluminum pan.
So they pulled the oil pan off the old engine and are swapping them. No surprise that there were pieces of metal in the old pan. Scott said it looked like mostly piston skirt pieces, so more damage to the pistons than I thought (I thought it was the top ring land coming apart). He turned the manual boost controller all the way down just in case. I wrote to Hellion asking them to confirm that the waste gate spring is really an 8lb spring and not higher.