I'm beginning to worry that maybe I completely misunderstood what I was told about rod "offset". If I'm not properly informed on this subject I will be back on this thread to apologize for passing on mis-information - that's certainly not my intent. Of course I can't find the article I remember reading that was in one of my vintage Hotrod "Engines" books - ain't that always the way? Let me check with the K1 folks again and I'll pass on what they tell me. But on the issue of the big end width being wider on the L6 (and so the L4?) than the V8, that alone makes the V8 rod an unusable alternative?
