Dave I feel your pain and you know what I did. Was time for me to move on. Didn't hurt I had a buyer for the car however. But I also had one thing you don't, a HEAVY car. I had ZERO ballast and aluminum engine and still weighed 2975 ready to race and managed to go 171 and change. You have the advantage of being well under that and with an aluminum block can loose even more. I don't think it would take a ton of HP to get your car in the 7's power wise. Will the chassis support that kind of power is another question.

You have plenty of space to go til you outrun your cert for sure. And building a Mopar power plant to do it NA is certainly possible. Or you could buy a newly built one I know of and be there straight away A nice B1 deal with an aluminum block would get you well into the 7's if you just wanna go faster. I know a guy with a very nice set of CFE B1 heads he don't need anymore...Fresh in the bag. Hell would sell you everything but a block CHEAP to put that car in the 7's