Six of one, or half a dozen of the other?

Well, the new intake/carbs. Some sort of higher-flowing exhaust arrangement, either headers, dutra duals, or some other split-manifold arrangment, electronic ignition and a hot street cam. All of these could be done with the engine in the car(well, the cam isn't easily done, but do-able). As well, I'd like to get ahold of an aluminum valve cover. I've also considered getting the head worked over a bit(milled for little compression increase, mild porting, new valves/springs), although if I were going to keep that head for a 225 swap down the road, I'd want to get larger valves installed. Totalling up everything, if I did the work, and started with a 'donated' 225, I'd have maybe $1200 in the engine, not counting the intake package I'm building as soon as all the parts get into one location.