[screamingchief]

Wc your post came in when I was working on my previous I agree not everones skills are the same thats the reasoning behind keeping it simple approach.All I am trying to say is the other stuff can wait,but anything you have to farm out(like sis conv.) would need to be done upfront as you would not want to yank the heads later to do them.Do I think this is money better spent than a msd HELL YES! If you've ever known someone who has had a stud come out you would too.The msd can be put on the car ANYTIME,as is exhaust,intakes,carbs,etc.thats all I'm getting at.Once you have a solid foundation to build on you add the luxuries.And I do not think a good set of valvesprings to be a extravegance but a nescessity as most of these engines have seen plenty of miles,there has been much discussion on the possible affects of poor seat pressure possibly contributing to cam failure in another thread here and I have made my view on this known there.I also don't think sending out a ditributor would be needed as to me that falls in the realm I refered to as solid tuning,this can be done on any car in the car easily.To me I see no difference in the skill required to dial in a Q-jet or a holley, the only difference is the ready availability of parts as it can be somewhat hard to locate a good Q-jet parts source,still does'nt change my opinion of the 1850 holley though,and I'm a holley guy myself.I also do not like to use polylocks on high mileage, driver type vehicles and prefer to use stock 7/16" bbc.locknuts.I have no problem using points or hei as they both can work just fine,my ventura w/350 had points and never missed a beat just used good quality parts and dialed it in.Last but not least I am only offering my opinion on what I would do,I never said if you do it any other way you'll be sorry,it his deal and feel he'll do as he wants the last thing I'm tying to do is create friction here.