my Low dollar 318 hop-up project

I like this idea, and I think you can get 275 to 325 hp pretty easy out of this, even with low compression and less CID. I like your effort, maybe try looking from a poor kid angle, what I mean is look at the Seal Power stuff, Summit and Jegs who have low dollar cam kits, stock intakes, internet, and so on. Link them to cam charts on line for RPM ranges for duration @50 for cam selection. Also how to talk and ask local motor heads for stuff that they have sitting around and not using, heck I give stuff away to kids all the time. One more thing we who have done it for a long time, sometime forget to mention the little things, to us it is something we do without thinking, but to a young kid it is an epiphany. You know like thin use of Permatex to hold gaskets in place and to cover pitting, using the thinnest head gasket to gain a little bit, and so on, but all and all great idea. P.S. Hope this was not too much impute, just want you to be successful.