Hi

Help Please - I have managed to cook the engine on my 2005 Hemi 5.7 Ram and being in the UK a replcement is hard to find . Can anyone tell me if the 5.7 from a similar year 300c would swap out ok without many issues . This would greatly improve my chances of finding a replacement engine here

the long block is the same, but the timing cover is different, as are the manifolds (intake and exhaust) and the oil pan.

You need to swap out the lifters for the non-mds flavor, perhaps rob a few out of your old engine. Swapping lifters requires removing heads. Other than that you gots your pan/pickup, intake manifold (I think is different) and ex manifolds. There is a ring in the crank you need to remove to fit on the snout of the truck TQ converter.

If it really blew bad make sure no shrapnel ended up in the intake.

That should just about do it.

Timing cover also.

Hey, very curious how you blew engine.

3 out or 4 bad ones I see are just snapped rods with no other issues, second most is when someone overheats it the valve seat and or guides fall out wreaking all kinds of havock on the pistons, head castings, bores...

Dave,Why are the rods suspect to breakage,any ideas?
RT

I have no solid proof but I think maybe the powdered metal rods were just not thick enough and the surface texture when they are done leaves millions of tiny stress risers so they get a little crack and just snap. If it was hydro locking they would be bent or something. Except where the big end hit the block it looks like you could just put the two pices back together and keep running.

Powered metal rods have been around, from a lot of manufacturers, for a long time. Nothing inherently wrong with them, but that's not to say the implementation is proper either. I hydrolocked the engine in my wife's Neon once, the powered metal rods in that 4 cylinder indeed bent.

I'm thinking by the o/p words, he overheated his. And who knows, might be very high miles based on the year of the vehicle.