Best bang for the buck?

Yes he is much like I was back in the day, don't just throw $$@it, work what you have, thats the fun part, he's done really well....but as you said if you wanna step it up you gotta add parts.

Later on I added an HS Dom intake, .590" purple sft, race hdrs, TA4200 vert, 4.30's/10x28's and went 12.39@108, added 60hp .5 sec and the rest was gear/vert, same rpm. The 11.01 was with a 220 shot.