273 & 318 Connecting rod weights

The rods you have posted.....while different casting numbers are the same style early small rods. The later 318s got the same larger rid as the 340 and 360.
They happen to be the same casting number 2706782...not the best pictures. Would you say it's mutually exclusive when they stopped using the lighter connecting rods and when the compression ratio was lowered from 9.2 (per alpar) to 8.6 in the early 70's?