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Jeff:

I had a set of Le Mans rods in my old engine. When I had the engine rebuilt by Bill Parham at Southern Automotive, I originally asked him to repair the one damaged rod, resize the rest (they are matched by weight as a set, if you didn't know), and install them in the new block. He talked me out of that because, while the Le Mans rods were the cat's meow 35 years ago, metallurgy has far surpassed them today. Parham installs the late-model Chevy 454 hi-po rods in his stroker engines. IMHO, keep the Le Mans rods for souvenirs if you'd like, but there are far better units available nowadays for performance engines.