We are always tempted, especially at the beginning, when we are hoping to make more horsepower, to assume that if some modification is good, more would be even better: "If some's good, more's better!" It is not always so.
You have received some wise counsel from experienced hands on this forum. Start with a small four-barrel carburetor, a relatively mild camshaft, and headers. Get that combination to run right, and you will see an immediate increase in power. Then, looking for more power, you can work on the head -- porting, lumps, larger valves, more compression, whatever. Once you have all of that working together, then you might be able to use a more radical camshaft and more carburetion. It is far better to make progress in stages -- and much less expensive -- than to go all-out at the beginning.
All of these things cost money and time, and the "more" is also more complicated and more difficult to tune and drive in traffic. If you try to have "more" before you have mastered "some," then after a few misadventures on the side of the road you are quite likely to pull the whole thing out and buy a "350" from the salvage yard. That's where many of us have accumulated some of our less expensive parts for inlines, from folk whose "want" exceeds their knowledge and their "wherewith."
You can likely make some serious power with the combination that you have suggested. You will do well to get there in stages, learning and paying as you go. We hope that you do good and do it well. It is hard to watch someone learn the hard way.
God's Peace to you.
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