318 horsepower

I am getting so confused. I keep hearing all of these different ideas and they all sound so interesting. On Saturday I ran into a friend at the track and he told me that I should keep the internals of the 318 the way they are and just get magnum heads and and a single plane edlebrock with a 750 Holly and that would give me the HP that I am looking for. He aslo said strip the car like EVERYONE is saying. Thoughts????