What are your power goals?

In right hands stock weak rods make 700 all day long
In right hands stock strong rods make 1000 all day long

 

Yeah I know SBE can take alot of power and everything but I just want reliability. I already have a 5.3 in my truck with gen 4 rods that im playing with. I bought the 6.0L block for cheap and would rather just put good pistons and rods in it so I dont have to worry about things down the line. Im not looking to have to swap motors every season lol
in the near future im looking to make 1000rwhp+.
Im just getting my feet wet for a second time with an actual quality turbo.

 

Reliability comes from the tune, with said any motor can fail

But since you posted up reliability then buy some ARP studs and if you do plan to make over 1000rwhp may want to look at cranks as stock cranks flex around 1000rwhp

 

id like to keep the stock crank if possible lol at that point i may aswell go 408

 

To George's point, the TUNE is the most important. Had a brand new HKE 365 with Wiseco and Compstar properly broken in that a new tuner hammered the bearings going through 2nd and spun 2 mains. F'ing moron mistyped the timing table, had 28 degrees instead of 18.

 

I'd say fuel is just as, if not more important than the tune.