ok due to further inspection we noticed that the piston heads are actually cracked
it seems as if they were running like this for a while because there arent any pieces of metal in the cylinder, just metallic dust. jusdging by the look of the block and the cylinder head nothing is damaged. we are still unsure but if that was the only problem then we will just get new pistons, gaskets, and ARP head bolts and start with the re-assembly.