A used Strip Dominator. That’s a couple of hundred bucks. Maybe less on a good buddy deal. I’d spend the 650 for a BLP BX4 carb and put it together myself. 180 bucks for a Howard’s cam that I pick the lobes. Regrind the lifters if they ain’t shot. I do my own head work and the valve jobs is about 200 bucks for what I use. I would be less if I could get on the seat and guide machine to do it myself, but I’m retired and I pay someone I trust to do that.
Where am I on price??? That right there is about the 1300 dollar mark. So I’d work some over time, take back pop cans, stick the old lady out on the corner...whatever it took to scrounge up the money for a set of 5204 Hookers and send that beeeeeeotch.
I’d be slightly over budget but still in the realm of doable for most anyone with an above minimum wage job who doesn’t have a drug habit and can manage his money at least a bit better than your average monkey at the zoo.
And I suggest 1500 is on the high side. You can shop around and save 500 bucks or so on the 340.
That’s how I’d do it. Everyone’s MMV.
