hey Ferm, need some input

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I think we talked about this a while back, but I'm getting close to to ordering parts. If we did, i forgot what was said. My wifes Burb(99, 5.7,1500, 2wd) is showing 212000 on the odometer. I just put a fresh set of LTX's on it, so i gues we are going to keep it for a while. Motor runs great(got 17.5 hwy last week)Figured I'd go ahead and at least have a short block siting there ready to go, I've got a spare 5.7 roller block, rods, and crank(I allready have a set of vortecs waiting to bolt on) in case something takes a crap on the engine. I was going to order pistons, the stock pistons have a shallow dish and a lower installed deck height, I was going to use thin ring standard small block pistons rather than the metric psitons, but couldn't figure exactly which dish I needed to duplicate the stock compresion. I'm going to use felpro head gasket and vortec heads that have had only a little taken off the surface. Block will probably be decked just enought to be square. Second part fo the question is I have a late model complete marine MPI intake setup(Bosch) with injectors, i've heard they are a lot better than the factory MPI intake, I'm not going after all power here, just reliable, fuel efficient, good power that will run off of cheap gas(just trying to be a bit better than stock). I know I'm going to have to adapt the injector harness and will have to do some tuning( I've got a good tuner). haven't made my mind up yet weatehr I'm going back with headers or stock manifolds. Will probably ditch the cats(no inspection in sc) and make a better exhaust. My tuner guy can turn off hte after cat O2s. Once i get the the short block together, I'll pick your brain on a cam and upgardes to the 4l60. My wife drives it daily, I may put it to use pulling a boat or tag-along camper later, but I've got to get it up to snuff first