To be perfectly honest, I've found that the best setup for all-around performance is still a well-designed single carb aluminum intake with a Holley carb. More exotic setups like tunnel ram, cross-ram, and even aftermarket EFI all look cool and can work well in certain situations, but its hard to beat the simplicity and effectiveness of a the standard single-quad intake, and new technology in design and manufacturing is helping speed part companies build better parts than ever.
Hot Rod did a great story a few issues back where they took a healthy BBC and ran about half a dozen intake manifolds on the dyno to determine which one produced the most peak power, peak torque, and average overall power and torque. The surprising part of the story was that there wasn't a ton of difference between the most low-performance Torquer and the most radical Super Victor. A standard victor jr. with a big 850 Holley made the most peak horsepower, but it needed a lot more RPM and wasn't very strong in the midrange. The best manifold in the test was the Performer RPM Air Gap, which offers the midrange and bottom-end pull of a dual plane intake, but the high-rpm horsepower of a high-rise single plane. That's what I would go with, and it's also what I'm using on my current project. If you have a problem with Edelbrock (not sure why you would, they make a great product), the Weiand Stealth is decent as well.
Dan