I can't help with #1 but generally they can go to 040 undersized on bigends and mains due to bearing availability. There are bigger sized bearings about but harder to find. Alternatively you can grind the bigends to small journal in standard stroke or altered stroke to get more life out of it. You just need to narrow the small journal conrods to fit.
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