Absolutely right. For a track car, you might go with a bigger carburetor, but for a street car, forget chasing horsepower numbers on paper anyway. Peak horsepower is fine on a drag strip, but you will find far more satisfaction and enjoyment with an engine that has high average power instead. Being able to make great torque from low RPM all the way to your peak means far more than an engine that bucks, snorts, stalls, and doesn’t know what do do when you stomp the gas from a stoplight, or at part-throttle. You need to tune your car for everyday operation, not just wide open throttle, because literally 99% of your driving will not be at wide open throttle anyway. There are real world limits to how long you can hold down your skinny pedal on a public road.
“Awesome heads, modest cam” is probably the best possible combo for a hot street machine. For your engine, an Edelbrock RPM air-gap and Summit Racing SUM-M08750VS Summit Racing™ M2008 Series Carburetors | Summit Racing Summit carburetor with annular boosters would hold nothing back on the top end, while still giving you a great torque curve even down low. A set of Edelbrock RPM heads would be fine, but if you really want the best, AFR 185’s would be a perfect match for your engine and performance needs. Keeping your compression around 10:1, with something like Comp Cams XE262H, you would have vicious, instant throttle response, brutal top end, and still be able to enjoy it for everyday in-town driving.
Subframe connectors and traction aids would be pretty important if you take your engine this far, despite it being a ‘street’ build.