Yeah, I figured that might be an issue.
I haven't seen anyone but Ron beat that, and with those being 'exotic' (harder to come by) parts nowadays.
You would think with all the diesel stuff getting hot rodded these days that there would at least be a forging blank that could be ordered machined to suit (not cheap, but cheaper than billet). Hard part would be finding one that the top of the small end was the same width (maybe not, I don't know enough about forging dies to know if they would strike the rod close to that shape or not).
