Small Blocks

Still what I said is true and stock class racers will run a matched set. It’s a lot of work to match a set, but it can be done and there are folks that do.
I worked at a auto parts store years ago and I remember this guy who was building his 400 Pontiac with mostly factory available parts, he went through like 3 or 4 sets of push rods till he got 16 that either where the same length or very very close to the same length, he measured every single one of those pushrods.