A few 6 bolt questions!

[Raptor]

Anyone that understands engine building will tell you that studs, put higher torque loads on the mains or rods or whatever application you use them in, it makes the main OOR and therefore requires an align bore/hone or in the case of a rod, resizing. Make sense? Not much different than boring with a torque plate, same principles apply.

You lost the rest of my input on how to do it as "cheap as possible". Not to be a jerk, like I mentioned above, your shortblock isn't the place to cheap out, personal belief and I am sure there are enough people here that will give advice on cheap setups. BTW, Ryan is 100% correct on his above comments IMO.