Its actually not a bad price for the Oliver rods, they are just naturally high. Why? Because they are fucking awesome. You never hear of someone having a bad Oliver. So their normal price of $720 is steep but when making a custom rod and only charging less than $200 more isn't bad, thats 50 more a rod(roughly). As far as you making a rod for cheaper I'm sure its possible but would it have the same strength? We know they make eagle rods and people buy them for cheap but the SRT stuff out of the box has been ran to mid 500's reliably, hell even a few at 600whp. So buying a set of eagle rods doesn't really appeal all that much to me seeing as they are only "rated" to 600hp. You'll find most people running Oliver rods are making well over 600whp and into the 1000's. As far as their being a market for that many rods, I doubt it. But hey, we can try right. Maybe someone needs to post this up, once we get a general price per how ever many we need, on neons.org, and srt4 forums and what not, that way we can reach a broader crowd. I'm for one down to try it out and try and get something going.