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It might even possibly show others that they can make quite a respectable engine without having to lay out a lot of money for a casting kit.---Brian
The only other radical departure from the "casting style" is the connecting rod. On the left you can see the original "as cast" connecting rod and rod cap. On the right is the same con rod and cap machined from solid. Now remember, I have shown the "machined" con rod with no radius on any of the sharp corners. If you wanted to, for "aesthetics", you could file in any number of nice radii on the machined rod, but other than for "pretty" they aren't really needed.
I'll have to think a bit about the round part