Need Advice on Low(er) Budget Race Build

I reached 10.90's with a stock bodied 70 Duster in 2001 and had 9 grand in it. It still needed a paint job. I scrounged and looked for parts on the cheap for two years. It had a basically stock short block with l2355f speeed pro forged pistons, a custom ground racer brown cam, a port matched torker. a set of heavily modified 906 heads, a heavily massaged 850 DP, fenderwell headers, a 4500 loose converter, 430 suregrip. and a 125 hp nitrous set up. I would guess that to do this today even with scrounging would cost 30 percent more. I blew it up before I had a chance to tune it out. Had i had the chance I bet I could have gotten it to run 10.60!!