10's on $5,000 ?

I don't know how much money they spent but Car Craft did it many years ago with a junkyard 440 and a Dart. They ran out of time to fix the transmission mount right and used two big hose clamps and clamped the transmission to the cross member. Car ran "somewhere" in the 10s. All they did was use bolt ons. Beat the snot out of headers, intake, carburetor, low gears, slicks. It was really a hoot of an article. They couldn't have had much in it at all.