Thanks for all the pointers, everyone. For now I'm going to wait until my dad comes (Sunday) and take a look at it with him to see if it may in fact be salvageable. I'm pretty sure I don't have a rod out the side of my engine, so it may in fact be salvagable? I'll see if I can post pictures of the damage when I get out to take a look at it, anyway.
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