Help me sort my combo

I don't know anything about bigblocks; but I like me a 230 cam allrightee. Nice pick Rumble. After you get that in there with headers, you'll wonder what the heck you were thinking when you installed the 509. At least I did, in my lil 367,lol. I gained so much zippy it was frightening!
I now run 3.55s, but I have a stick, no TC for me. And first gear is just used to get to second lol, where all the action is. The nice thing about 3.55s in my combo is I hit 5100@60 at the top of second, just under peak power. For you, 3.55s suck cuz at 60 your engine will barely hit 4000.
But for you, 35mph will be at or near peak torque in first gear, so when you hit it, and it kicks down; hang the heck on!
IDK,I had a bad experience with a 440 in hi-school.
My Swinger went 98 in the quarter on those factory E70-14s. Another kid in grade 11, said his Daddys 68 NewYorker could take me. I said com'on it's a family car get outta here. Some weeks later I got tired of him bugging me and said OK, We'll go to a hundred, on my speed-O. Of course the lil Swinger jumped ahead and by the top of second that boat was a distant memory. Then a funny thing happened. About 85mph this boat is getting bigger and bigger in my rear view mirror, and we got 15 more to go!
Well ya know 3.55s are a lousy gear to hit a hundred with using a Mopar 4 speed; it's too high for third and too low for fourth. So if I shift, I'm thinking I might be done for. But my 340 starts floating the valves about 5600 and I'm still done for. What to do what to do. Well ya know I gotta shift right? and so about 90mph, Bam I smoked that stick into 4th, the Rs dropped into basement and just like that,that ugly brown tub is on my back bumper, and inching alongside. I don't know how that lil 340 held him off, but I did reach 100first. (He mighta had to shift too,with his touring gears,lol.)
I never raced to 100 again with 3.55s... I went straight away,and got me some 4.10s. With a trac-loc. Which I still have to this day. $65 I paid for the whole 2881489 shebang.
I gained a lotta respect for 440s that day.
True story from 1971, going on 48 years ago. Criminy I'm getting old.