Butters "Winter Upgrades". . Starting a Little Early

Dantra said

Tone rings interchange. Depends what you want out of the motor. Forged is nice, but is it worth it for what you wanna do? You don't really hear of alot of 5.7 bottom end failures. I'd probably lean towards a set of drop ins for better ring lands. Who am I to give advice on that **** tho lol. I mean, I'm doing something absolutely ridiculous for the hell of it!

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There is some interchange issues as some of the tone rings are 4 bolt and some only 3 bolt. Pretty sure the non-VVT 5.7 is 3 bolt and the 6.1 is 4 bolt, but not sure on the vvt 5.7 or 6.4. I remember looking at something tone ring related awhile ago and not being able to find a tone ring that would potentially fit what I as doing. But it has been long enough I don't know what I was even researching anymore.

I don't think I will ever need a fully forged 5.7. I could see myself spend money on it and then want more displacement and throw it all away, too.

At the same time, I could see building a fully forged 5.7 with a set of Trickflow heads that are dual drilled and a HC FEAD kit. Run it NA for awhile and then swap an HC blower on it later. Probably make 85% the power of an HC, but cost much less.

I currently have 2 vvt 5.7's, so not impossible that I might build one up at a later date. But the first one will be a bottom dollar re-ring unless the cylinder rust doesn't hone out.