I agree with you but money is usually the problem, my way of looking at it is if your going to upgrade every single part in the engine then you might as well throw a socal billet crank in there, by then your $20,000+ deep in an engine not counting fuel/air/trans to get the good out of that engine. Or you can spend $7,000 on a budget build and keep it 600-650hp and it should be about as reliable as that $20,000 engine at 1,200hp and probably even more so. It all depends on your goals, I don't know nearly as much as a lot of you guys but that's just my opinion. I feel like I would have been super happy with my first budget build had I used a new crank and had someone build it that I knew for sure could build one to last.