Same here, 20 some odd years to be exact for me !
I think the plan is going to be, port the heads and get a good set of tight quench modern slugs in there.
The combination of going from 8:1 to 9.5:1, adding 40-50 cfm of flow, and the RPM should wake it up plenty for the pickup.
It ran good before, but now I know how it's set up, so I have to do something.