If your not going to stroke it then you can build your basic mild 440 street bruiser as I did with my old combo.
It was basically a stock crank and rod bottom end that I had the crank checked and the rods reconned with new ARP bolts. I use KB quench pad pistons to get quench with my 906 heads and 10.0 pump gas friendly comp. Then I ran Isky ductile adjustable rockers and the MP .557 solid flat tappet cam. Ran the Holley Street Dominator intake and my 850 DP. Basic Mopar electronic ign and Hedman 1-3/4 headers. The 906 heads I milled for 10.0 comp and ported them myself with new bigger valves. A very simple basic combo that is almost a stock 440 shortblock with home ported iron heads and a nice solid cam with bolt on's. In my 3725 lb 63 it ran a best of 11.49 @ 116 driven to the track and on pump through the exh. It was a nice running mild street driver that was good for 11.50's to 11.80 depending on the weather. Ron