My turn. I'll say that if the goal is a race motor and it's going to be internally balanced, save the dough and get the forged crank to begin with. By the time you balance a cast crank ($$) you will have paid for the forged crank...

Know your goals, keeping LONG TERM costs in check. I mean if the cast crank is what the budgets "requires" and it breaks, it's spendy to have to build the whole thing over again. Or worse the car is parked because there's no dough to build another bullet.

If I HAD to put a cast crank in a race motor, NO WAY would it be an Eagle. Too many documented failures. The Mopar/SCAT crank seems to the cast crank of choice...albeit with HP limits, no nitrous and NO TRANSBRAKE!