How many times can rod and main bolts be torqued?

What experience do you have in this matter????

Have you actually performed any bolt stretch studies yourself???

I am a senior design Engineer, having to do FEA on structures and having to justify bolt size and pattern and forces in all kinds of applications. As for doing studies that would be beneath my job specs. Although I have had them done by others. I've done all kinds of jobs on my way to where I am now. It was my love of cars that got me into Engineering. It amazes me how we jump to the internet to get an answer, when you can go to a world class firm like ARP who actually makes this information available. And as I suspected, they consider a fastener torqued past yield as a failed fastener, their published number is actually .0005 of an inch.

http://arp-bolts.com/p/technical.php

While you are on their site, go to their catalog and you can see the dimples in the head and threaded end to see what I was talking about.