[RideZX6R]

It's been said many times that the reason most people have piston failures in the first place is ring gap that is inconsistent and/or too tight...

After some discussion with a few people in the community - most agree that if people would simply re-ring the stock pistons to an acceptable gap and with consistency - it's reasonable to think the problems will go away... As many LT1 cars have made over 700whp without issues (likely the consistent, non-tightened ring gap cars)...

Problem is... It's easy to reason that if you're gonna pull each piston anyway to reset ring gap... so why not just spend $1200 and put in drop-ins instead? The labor is essentially the same, for much better reward and much less risk. This is especially true if you're having a shop do the work - chances are you have the $1200 t do this because you're already spending $10k+

Best bang for the buck would be to do your own labor, and reset the ring gap on the stock pistons and likely be fine for a while... Much like many things in life, this isn't certain either (even if it is likely)