thing is, Dan, is there are a lot of ways to do this. If on a budget, why not follow some of the very simple recipe's already provided by members here. I did one myself called the "Low dollar 318". For less than 500 bucks (498 to be exact), I ran the same numbers as a factory '73 340 Duster with 3.21's (and I did it with 2.76's). And others have documented similar builds.