The problem Mica is that you are presetting your opinions as facts... this is very misleading to the community. It would be better if you stated that your intuition tells you that X is like this and Y is like that. Rant over
Yes, the bore spacing is identical as is the placement of the journals on the crank. They even used the same spacing on the head bolts. The crank does not use a strait shot oiling system, they just rotated the holes on the mains 70/80deg.