Trying to remanufacture an ea888 gen 3 tfsi Audi engine. Got it down to individual block pieces, only have crankshaft, connecting rods and piston heads left to remove. Obviously I won’t be solo boring or resurfacing, that is stuff I simply cannot do. It died due to a rod knock in cylinder 3 after coolant contaminated the oil. I’m not a pro (though I hope to be someday) but the damage to me is very minor. Some scoring on bearings, cam shafts look great even though they won’t be reused, rods and crankshaft are all getting replaced so don’t care about those as I’m sure they’re toast anyways. Cylinders have slight scoring but nothing I feel would even create a problem in a working engine but they will be machined nonetheless. They don’t even catch my fingernail for reference.

I guess what I’m asking is, what tips, resources, builds, warnings does everyone have? I kinda want to make this nice. Add tune, more boost, maybe even throw on the bigger turbo like used on the vw golf r with the same engine.
I love mechanical stuff and want to possibly start a euro engine machining shop in the future. I’ve noticed such a prevalent absence of places that do any sort of euro/german car work. Especially nitty gritty stuff like engine remanning. It’s a field I enjoy, even with all its BS. And I know there’s money there too, not that money is why I’m autistic about it.

Also side note, had very stubborn timing chain cover screw that stripped and I had to cut the head, I did scratch up the mating surface on the block but it’s all parallel to the mating surface and I think it’d be able to be smoothed out and only lose about a cm at most of surface depth.