I got a couple replies in the general dragster section, here and a PM as well, thank you everyone.
Sounds like reliability won't be a problem running 8.50's / 700 hp.
Let me ask this question about Mickey Thompson rods............WAIT!! I know that old souvenir rods are paperweights...but .this is a different story here.
I have 16, honest-to-goodness- brand -new, uninstalled MT rods. If they were once good for 1000 hp and the pounding of nitro .........any reason why they wouldn't be OK for a 700hp, low boost alky engine today?
I spoke to a guy who was in on the design of those rods with MT. He said that two sets would last a "romperroom" low-power program (like mine) a long, long time. A friend told me that ARP even catalogs a bolt for the MT's (and he suggested a modern bolt).
Uhhhm...does that make any sense?