[njsteve]

I have the balancing sheet with the weights. The rods were within 1 gram of each other out of the box: 4 were 758 and 4 were 759, which coincided well with the pistons, 4 of which were 779 and 4 were 778. So he just matched them to all together to come out to the same weight when he mounted the pistons to the rods.

According to the machinist, the new rod and piston combo was 100 grams less than the domed, forged pistons and cast rods that I pulled out of the engine. They had to drill out some material from the crank to lighten it up to match the new pistons and rods.

Everything is home now and we should be assembling this weekend!