I'll take a wet nosed one over one that cooks the front bearing. Rods are cheap and takes all of ten minutes to swap.
So, you wouldn't happen to have an extra X-15 rear intake venturi and needle would you? I am in the market for one, I have a nice example but for that missing detail. Has the extractor megaphone, but the timing has been bumped from the looks of things so I may detach the expansion cone and turn it in to a pipe header. If.. I find a venturi assembly. There has to be one somewhere. I posted a wanted as on the speed forum but got crickets, except in e guy said he had one then evaporated. It is such a sweet looking engine it deserves to breath alcohol again.