Help with Head Gasket selection

The .010" spread really stinks. Takes me from the min to the max recommended distance it seems. I'm not putting a lot of money into the bottom end on this motor. I might pull the pistons out to see if it is a rod or two that I could easily change or have rebuilt. My concern is the strange machining on the counter weights suggest rework and I'm concerned that they somehow screwed up the throw length on a regrind. I guess it doesn't cost anything to take it apart further right? I could just continue the Bubba engineering work and throw the two tall ones in the lathe and knock a few thousandths off the top of the pistons to get them back to .030 above deck.....