Looks good Dallas, just a couple questions and observations..
Stock pistons?
did you measure piston/cylinder clearance? bearing clearances?
Seems like your torque specs for rods and mains are pretty dam low to me.
and yeah that is a back words way to assemble a engine, at least to me it is. I've always installed the crank first then installed pistons with bearing in it already and put on rod caps as you go.
Your making good progress man I like it, keep it up