Rod bolts fell out!

Just to add more..

I was guiding a build on a 440 about 16 years ago and the guy didn't wanna spring for new rod bolts. It was a mancini rebuild kit with speed pros n such, anyways..
..so the rods were resized and that was that. Fast forward to assembly...as I put the P/R's in for him, he was special ed...the rod bolts on a couple...fell right out... no knurl or nothing. I told him I'd send this **** back for bolts...but he said fk it... so I bolted it togther and put it in and broke it in...
4.30's .533 lift. 6500 rpm shifts w/TA valve body and med 3800 stall 'too much'.
He didnt even have the heads rebuilt, so I took them and did the least...valve lap and proper spring setup.
Still running fine.