Unreal intake manifold cost

An adapter and 4 barrel is a low buck fix. Is it optimum? No but you aren't building a race car are you? I didn't think so.
No I'm not building a race car. But I'm wanting to improve the performance some what, what I thought I'd do first is a carb swap, headers and maybe a mild cam something like a comp 268. If I go with different heads I'll probably get a set of speedmaster cylinder heads but that's later on. I think that I'd be money ahead by buying new heads rather than putting money into a cracked cylinder head