If you have nothing, then you have to buy rockers, head bolts, etc for whatever heads you’re going to use, and Hughes sells rockers for these heads for similar money as the HS rockers for many other heads, so that’s more or less a wash.

If you bought the bare heads from Jegs for $725/pr....... and used decent quality parts in them, and the basic labor operations on them to make them usable, along with a mild bowl blend....... you’d have around $1900 into a set of assembled/ready to bolt on heads.

For that kind of money, there are what I would consider “better” options out there.