77’ 440 rebuild

Keep what you have, just make sure your compression is around 10 to 1. 452"s are like 906 but they have hardened valve seat.
If I was you I wouldn't waste your time on cast iron heads you can buy a new set of aluminum heads save a lot of weight add some more usable power for not much more than you're going to sink into an old set of cast iron heads get a set of stealth heads from 440 source they work pretty good out of the box ready to go