Ya I know Mike my buddy is a machinist he has been building them 100,000 dollar machines for the desert racers.
Then when they are done with those they have new motor's built and throw those old motors out. Then he takes them
rebuilds them and use's them for drag race motors. Most are better then 1,000 hp naturally aspirated.
He know his stuff, always building the after market blocks for drag racers.
The more I've been looking in to it though the connecting rods are not all that strong and I think I would be a lot
safer to just go to a good aftermarket rod that could stand up to 2,000 hp or so. since all I have to do is a simple pulley
change to up the power.