I am a Big block freak myself but you can make your SBC run in the 10's if you want to put some time & money into it.

On top of some of the suggestions you were given let me just add one thing.......Light=Fast!

Take any unnesesary wieght off the car by replacing what you can with fiberglass or just plain removing pounds from the car.

Rule of thumb is -100# = -tenth

BG