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If you choose to re-use the surviving parts to build another gun, might as well do it up right and get GOOD parts. I wouldn't use anything left from the KImber except the slide w/ related parts and maybe the trigger.
I woudln't re-use any of the MIM lower parts i.e. hammer, mag release, hammer strut, etc.

If I were in your shoes that's the route I'd take. Caspian frame, Nowlin, Bar-Sto or Kart barrel, and ALL Ed Brown parts.
It'll end up costing a little more but it'll be one fine pistola when it's finished.

Heartbreaking

Ouch! Have you been able to get it apart? Since you can see light in the barrel does that mean the barrel split?