The motor had a set of Fel Pro 1009 on it and they looked good on the sealing to the heads and block. There is one flaw on one cylinder on the block I don't like so I will have it surface a tiny bit and smooth up at the same time.
He doesn't want to turn the boost up at this time and I'm advising him to keep the boost under 7.0 lbs. to be safe with this 440 block, I am adding aluminum main caps, it has ARP main studs in it already so they will stay.
I'm stroking it also to 4.25 and changing the heads to a set of Eddy E street heads with 75.0 CC and having Bullet make me a new solid roller cam with quite a bit more lift than the original cam that only had .345 lobe lift
My goal is to make him happy with more power down low before the boost kicks in without allowing him to hurt the motor at WOT
Maybe it is time for a good low pressure blow off valve