I use to see a lot of crankshaft like those being shown, when I raced Yamaha engines in go-karts. We would drill or grind the holes in the crankshaft to lighen then and the fill the holes back in with nylon or aluminum. The reason was to get the engine to spin up faster. We would rebalance the whole assembly, chankshaft, rod, wrist pin,piston as a unit. This could be what and why it was done in the OW engine.