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FWIW, here's the combo in my GTX.

1973 "440"
Standard Bore/Standard Stroke
9:1 Compression
906 Heads (Template Porting)
296/557 MP Purple Cam
M1 intake W/750 Silver Claw
3500 Stall JW Converter
Manual Valve Body
8 3/4 rear with 4.56 Gears
3750 Pounds Race weight

12.32 @ 108.5 in Tucson (So Far...)

Nothing fancy...

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Thats a nice budget build. I think you have 11's in your car with more tuning and tme. My old 440 build is very close to it as I had a stock shortblock with KB pistons at 10.0 comp and 906 heads I ported. Same .557 cam and Street Dominator intake with an 850 DP and Hedman 1-3/4 headers. In my 3700 lb 63 it got a best of 11.49 @ 116 and I would guess I had about 3k in parts as I got the car for $1200 big ones and had some of the parts. Also did all the work myself including the heads as I use my brothers valve grinding equipment.
My new eng I built (my 493) I spent alot more on parts as I would say that the money parts were :

Stroker kit (crank,pistons,rods,bearings,rings and the rest of the bottom end kit).....$2000.

Heads (Indy EZ) with cam and lifters and valley plate and dual plane intake with machine work on heads.....$3500

TTI 2" headers and TTI full to rear bumper 3" X-pipe exh and Ultra-Flow mufflers.....$1400

This was the three big spenders that put that build around 7k plus many small extra parts needed in all builds put me about 8k.
But this was one eng I decided to use good new parts and stop throwing engines together with used parts as thats all I usually had the money for. And between my brother and I and a good friend we usually came up with enough parts for me to afford to build a cheap eng and car on the small budget I had.

I bought the 63 for $1200 dollars and alot of work on my buddies cars and thats how I managed to build the first 440 budget eng that ran 11.49.
I have about 8k in parts tied up in the 493 but I wanted to for once in my life build an eng on not so tight a budget that would put me in the 10's on pump thru the pipes just like I drive it. You can click this link http://www.1962to1965mopar.ornocar.com/mmo82008.html
which is also in my sig for more info on my budget build or just PM or E-mail me if I can help with any questions. But you build now is very close to my first 440 in here and I am sure you will have it in the 11's soon. Ron