Dude, I bet your car will cost less to build than the sand rails. One of the chassis guys I dealt with was a builder of sand rails from scratch---200k for a turbo'd ecotech 4 seater, evidently, was a fair price. He was doing a couple of them a year. I guess when the shocks are 5k apeice and you need 8 to ten of them--or something like that, it adds up quickly.
I've been in quite a few cars with 1000 or more HP which were street drivers. Most all of them had 28 to 28.5 inch tall tires on the rear (dual purpose street and strip type cars) and, if memory serves, most ran between 3.50 to 3.73. Some of them ran as low as 3.20's, but that typically worked in conjunction with stock ratio's of a T400 trans (2.48 first gear low I believe) to tame the launch. They all seemed to do well on freeway with these setups, but these were with tall rear tires. I'm assuming you will have a 9in center section in the car with this power level, so good news is that a gear change, if necessary, won't be a very intrusive or expensive event.
Keep us posted with pics.
Doug
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