I went to Heaven yesterday!!!!
IMO, a little high, but reasonable for what he's got....
The 440 block and heads were $1200.
He may be able to find them cheaper if he waited and watched for one to come up, but he got a July 71 casting date short block with forged crank and stock stock pistons that has a guarantee to clean-up at .030 bore, or he'll exchange it for another block. So overall, not a bad deal.
My uncle is going to have it hot tanked and checked for cracks, then we are going to bring it to my head/engine guy near Detroit Metro Airport for him to machine and assemble it for him. My uncle wants it built and he will swap the 400 for the 440 in the 72 Roadrunner that he just bought last week...
He's hoping to have it in by spring, but we'll see if it can be done. You all know how delays come along, spring is just around the corner when you need to build an engine, pull the old one, touch up the engine compartment, and install another engine.... That's not much time at all....
