What's it worth? 318 w/some performance parts

Well I'm probably crazy or at least impatient because I went ahead and bought the engine/tranny from the guy. I could be screwed, but I don't think so. I'm counting on my instincts that the dude was being straight up. I mean usually you can tell when you're dealing with someone who is trying to screw you, and typically they aren't going to sit there and talk for over an hour either. (but I've been wrong before)

The picture of the rockers w/lube were from when he took the heads off, had them rebuilt (stock) and then put the roller rockers, new lifters, new etc. Had pictures of everything he did to the engine as he was trying to increase the performance. The bottom end of the engine has about 64K on it. The parts have less than 15K on them over 5 years. (he has 3 e-body barracudas 1 poor rusty AAR, a 74 that this engine came out of...that's at the paint shop being made into a replica AAR that he can comfortably drive, & a 71) I was thinking he was a little crazy to take a matching engine out with low original miles BUT when he said he was slapping a 440 in it and making it an AAR, well it's hard to argue because most of us would love to be in the spot where we could do that too. The pictures of the progress were making me drool just a bit.

So as far as a pile of performance parts with not a ton of miles on them I think I'll be pretty happy. He is sending me the dyno paperwork from when he had it dyno tuned. (or he was a big fat con and I just spend almost a grand on a lot of used parts that honestly would have cost almost that much anyway) I think what pushed me over the top was having an engine with all the brackets I need for PS & AC already on it and all the linkage for the tranny. Get some new motor mounts, swap over to my a-body headers, and get my car driving this winter.

Now the question is do I pull it all apart & reseal the bottom end since the top end is pretty solid OR just put a rebuilt tranny behind it and drive it until it needs to be replaced with something with a little more get up an go. Who knows, I might be happy with the 318. It will certainly work for moving my Scamp around while I restore it and a bit beyond. I think I'm going to go ahead and decide what color the car is going to be & paint the engine bay so I can just leave it in there until I want to pull it out.

Any how thanks for all the feedback. Love this community.