The best connecting Rods Options

[awd4kicks]

I'd like to hear what you all have experienced or read about the best connecting rods. Which rods would you buy for a daily driven high HP car if money were no object?

For instance I was using Eagle rods in my G64c 2.4liter 4-banger. These, from what I have been told are the least expensive good rod. I put about 135HP through each rod on the dyno (On a V8 that would equate to a 1080HP engine). It's not the 240HP+ that Darryl Hudson put's through his rods, but my cars are meant to be street driven many more miles than a drag race only car. Marko was apparently using Carillo rods in his 1500HP street driven Supra which equates to 250+HP per rod.

So what do you think? Since I am talking about a street driven car I don't think that aluminum rods should be considered unless there is something about them I don't know.

Eagle
Manley
Carillo
Any others?

[awd4kicks]

I talked to Alan at Eagle. He doesn't feel that his rods would have failed at my power level without something else going wrong. He says he has rods in racing 4 cylinder engines putting out more than 1000HP. Thier ads rate them for 900HP and AMS rates them to 600HP which I'm sure that I was skirting at the flywheel. He also said the rods will never break at the shaft like I thought mine did. He believes it had to be a side affect from some other issue like knock which could cause a bearing to spin, a stretched rod bolt, fatiged parts from overheating due to spun bearings or the like. Well these rods have been in a stroker of one sort or another of mine for the past two years and they did live through spun bearings as well as plenty of knock while tuning. So there are numerous reasons they could have weakend.

Regardless I want something that is hardy enough to take some abuse, because I don't have the kind of money to freshen a motor a couple times a year just to be sure. Ya know... Spend the money once, spend it right and be done with it for a reasonable amount of time.