BillH wrote:
Well Tom, I've always thought the AN bolts were fairly reasonable, at least where I get them from, not that much different from a Gr8 at HomeD. But I've never done an exact comparison.

In the open wheel crowd, no one will use a Gr8. I've seen cars for sale that the seller stated all the bolts were changed to Gr8 and no one would buy the car without a price reduction so they could change out all the bolts.
They are generally smaller bolts though.
I've also seen Gr8s on suspensions fail when I've done the post crash inspections.

Corvettes are kinda "over bolted" size wise anyway, so there shouldn't be a problem with 8s.