F355 rod bearing change w/pics, oil analysis

Hi all,
Ive posted a few times before mostly with my OCD kicking in and me needing to fix every dang potential problem with my car.
Anyway, i got my 99 355 last year and have put about 3k miles on it and changed the oil twice. when draining the oil everytime there are small metal particles that always settle on the pan. the largest being the size of the tip of a pencil (maybe .2mmx.2mm?), so yes very small, but still, metal isnt good. ive driven the car anyway for the said 3k miles. i just completed a major service and found absolutely NO signs of wear on the cams, lifters, cam journals, etc. the heads were near perfect. i removed them to get freshened up anyway due to leak down through the exhaust valves.
Everything is back together and decided to run the engine with some new oil, then drain and check for particles. i drain the oil after 20 minutes of run tim and i still see these damn tiny flakes of metal, so i figure what the hell, inspect the bearings, so i pulled the sump and i am in the process of inspecting all the bearings. Here is the bearing from rod #1 in the pics, looks like normal wear to me.
i also inspected the oil filter and i could only find a few tiny specks in the element. Im going to take the oil i drained out and try to see if its aluminum or copper, the gold oil color makes everything look like copper.
I plan on buying:

(16) new rod bolts from either Dave Rocks or Eurospares, need to check on their stock
(16) STD rod bearings (Do i assume all the bearings i have are STD size??? or do i need to measure each one?) OEM or superformance?
all the main bearings and do the "roll in" method to change the uppers. or just inspect the mains?

Oh, and here is the oil analysis of oil that is about 1k old about 1k miles ago.

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thanks. i just spent a ton of time on the major service and head work so i dont want some other problem to ruin everything. i also dont want to take this engine apart again, so i figure i spend the cash on all new bottom end bearings and then just drive it and not worry.
good to know on the bolts, ill let you know asap. do you consider those bolts better than the stock ones in any way or equivalent?

i plan on measuring all bearings and using plastigauge to measure clearances using my old bolts for that process since they will need to be torqued to get the clearance measurement.
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heck yea i used your drawings, they were awesome. ive been meaning to thank you for putting them out there.
do you have any opinion on rod bearings? i see some on superformance website, but i should probably take them out and measure before buying new ones.

just so im clear, my plastigauge should read the install clearance shown below, and my standard bearings should measure the thickness below?
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i havent found any issue with the oil pump, etc yet. I now have the engine on a stand ready to not only change the bearings but go through the heads. plastigauge is a must and ive always used them as a "sanity" check after both measuring the old and new bearings to verify thicknesses. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login

 

some pics of the old bearings i took out. They were pretty close to failure. luckily i caught them now. both rod bearings and mains are being changed.
The crank is perfect, i think i caught the bearings in time before they were damaged enough to screw up the crank.
the car had no symptoms, and sounded great, i am just obsessive about checking the oil very closely and ive noticed fine "shimmering" to the oil when doing the last 3 or 4 oil changes.

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i know the oil analysis came back clean, but my intuition was telling me otherwise.

 

yes #2 appears to be shedding larger pieces than the others. Im glad im doing this. the car was my daily all year and i want to keep it that way. Every day it is down is one less day i get to drive it.