I guess those of us with 1975 to 1978 cars with integrated heads have to combine steps 2, 3, and 5 into one step. Although that's a good time to do 4 as well. Not sure on which year the Varajet integrated head came into use on trucks.
Unless you go forced induction that list is pretty much the only path to take to get decent power out of these. I suppose you could go really radical and get that head that brings the intake on the passenger side and exhaust out the driver's side but I can't see you gaining a whole lot with it.
After all that I did I was still a 15 second car. But it was a very neat 15 seconds and sounded great while doing it.
