Help me please tryin to beef up 318

I was right where you are once. I used 360 heads on the 318 with good results. I cut them .045 and did not do anything with the intake or pushrods, worked fine. I had a cast intake/TQ carb from a maxi van, a used 340 cam for free, and with a stock 727 and stock converter, 3.21 gears it went 14.40's at 96 mph. My stall was only 1800 rpm's. If I would have had a 904/factory converter (usually about 2000 stall), I would have been real close to breaking into the 13's.