Bracket engine, what would you build and why?

Thanks for the reply! I agree on the aluminum rods in a bracket engine, they were there when I bought the car. I had thought about pulling it to have them checked, but unfortunately received some bad advice. I will not run them again.
I plan to do what I can to help aero and clean up the air flow into the carb. I don't really know how bad it is now.
The fuel system is more than capable of supporting the power the engine made. When I bought the car it had a 850 dp on it. Had to replace the throttle plate due to vacuum leak, then a fuel bowl went bad [corrosion?]. Put a pro systems 1000 on it and ran basically the same, little better 60 and 1/8 th maybe.