Jack,
Torrie on the Ford GT Forum has a twin turbo Ford GT that is running 1,000 horsepower. He recently found the weak spot, the CV joint. Totally destroyed the cage of the CV at the transaxle end. Did not wreck anything else, and these were stock CV's as well, and he has run them since new.
I do not think you will have any trouble with your Ricardo with that horsepower or footprint. Something else will fail before that. Best of luck with your project. Let us all know how it turns out.
Mark
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