I'm in the process of planning my mild street/track 289 build. I have the engine completely disassembled. While pulling the pistons I let one slip through my butter fingers and dropped it on the floor. It landed on one of the connecting rod bolts and bent the sucker. Now I either have to have them reconditioned with new bolts and a resizing of the big end or buy new ones. I can't seem to find many options for the 5.155" rod length the 289 uses. It will cost $75 for new ARP bolts and $110 at the machine shop to recondition them. This is fairly cheap but is it worth using the old rods at all?