So from what I'm hearing, I can pretty much just find something from a junkyard, "freshen" the bottom end, and just stick with the stock crank & rods, and that should easily handle my 350-400hp?? I'll want to concentrate mostly on a good set of heads, intake and a good cam??
This thing doesn't have to last 200k miles. It's not like it'd be a daily driver. But I would like it to make it more than 2000 miles before blowing up.

Pragmatically speaking, it'll probably never see 30k miles before I get tired and move on to something else...