When should you brace an 8 3/4 housing?

How much motor are you going to run?..
4-speed ? Automatic ?
I guess what I'm getting at is you'd be better off with a Dana 60 or something that's going to handle serious horsepower if that's the way you headed with slicks... It's my opinion that ate 3/4 are more of a expensive numbers matching kind of rear end... For less than I built my eight and three-quarter which I blew up in 20 passes I built a Dana 60 and have no worries..