"I have taken the sleeves out
"I have taken the sleeves out to .020, balanced all the pistons to the lightest one, New .020 pistons, new bearings (metal from the detonated pistons was all over the place), and am replacing all the fuel line, cleaning the tank etc. I also added a 10 micron fuel filter. Hopefully once all my parts have trickled in I can go ahead and assemble. Still torn on the rods, I wouldn't build a small block ford with that much variance between weight. I'll get them close by working on what's left of the mold marks.
Ironically, the only bearing failure I noted was rod chatter marks, but no real 'failure'. Luckily, the crank survived.
I'm rebuilding the carbs, rejetting one step richer, putting in Boyesen reeds. That is about it."