wanting to swap a few 6.1 parts onto my 5.7

Cool Hand, that is not really that bad. I will but the short block from you if you are selling it. price pending of course. the 5.7 in my car now was way worse than that and she runs just fine. a little machine work, new slugs and back to service she went. let me know what you need for the short block as is.

to answer your questions use the 6.1 push rods with the new heads, pull out the MDS lifters swap with non mds lifters and let it eat. I also went and bought the plastic plugs for the solenoids for the lifters.