Is anyone running V10 rods in their SBM?

I'm half a world away here. (Well, closer to three quarters) What kind of money would a used set of rods from a cooked up, worn out, and freeze damaged motor run into up there? If used V10 parts are worth lots still, then it'd not be worthwhile.
I often cobble things together making one out of two or three broken ones. Sometimes it works well, and other times it goes BANG!