360 mystery breakdown

While I do agree with this, I also feel that ARP bolts in a properly resized rod could possibly offer a little more forgiveness if a light hydrolock impacted a bearing insert.

Even if that was true I'm definitely not going to try to find out again lol. I'm gonna pray for now that the crank is OK and I can get away with just replacing that rod, bearings, maybe pistons, and maybe I'll go ahead and get the rods resized now since I still have those ARP bolts NIB.

Also I definitely won't be putting it back together with the same camshaft, I know that was part of the issue all along; too little overlap for the cubes and compression = high cylinder pressure + shitty pump gas = POP!