It's funny you say that because when I got my little stroker for my car and started drag racing it with slicks I thought I needed an 8 and 3/4 as well and swapped it out for my eight and a quarter... My eight and a quarter had countless passes on it and I knew I was going to blow soon so I built the 8 and 3/4... 8 and 3/4 lasted about oh 20 passes... BOOM!!!..