Since I no longer have any Mopars of that era, I'll happily donate some ABBA, Bee Gees, and Donna Summer 8-tracks to this project! :p Kidding... I've had a few of the later B-bodies including a T-top '79 300. They're actually pretty great cars. I'll be keeping an eye on this.
I bought an 18K-mile 440 out of a '76 CB300 for $300. One could still feel the crosshatch in the bores and the bearings hadn't gotten through the protective coating on 'em. The first thing I did (and about the only thing so far) was mill the heads .070", which still leaves me sub-9:1 with the factory pistons. I measured the head gaskets, piston-to-deck distance, and CCed the heads during disassembly. The factory's advertised compression, which if memory serves was 7.6:1, was a far cry from what it actually had: just a blonde one under 7:1. Oy.
