Muscle Quads is an old schooler way before you & I where even on the old site, deebo good looking out though
I have spoke to JH on the hot rods (I have one in my bottom end right now) and he said that hot rods often come of the factory with many more variances that stock. He said stock rods are always much better on their clearances of out the box if he cares to throw his 2 cents in on this subject.
From what I've been told OEM is much better rod than Hot rods. I've got 70 hrs on mine and I'm thinking I'll be lucky to get 100 hrs on i before it needs to be changed out, where guys are getting like 150 hours on an OEM rod before it's too far out of spec.