I have a (near as I can tell) 1969 440 BB with a steel crank drilled for a manual tranny heads and a factory cast intake man. How can I tell what I really have? and what it is worth? and would any body want it?

 

casting numbers on the side of the block, post them.

 

Some cranks can be "hard to tell" Some were drilled a little undersize and a little shallow. You used to be able to buy undersize pilot bushings, and guys used to cut, say, 3/8" or so off the gearbox shaft so the shaft would not bottom

There's no way that I know of to tell from a casting no. whether it's a stick or auto engine. If it's complete, look for kickdown brackets/ linkage on the intake/ carb

 

post up some pics

 

casting number on the heads is 2843906-6 the crank piolt bushing hole is about 1 1/4" deep I also found the bell hsg for it, and the casting number on the block is 2536430-3 and the intake has a date in cast of 1-24-69 and number of 2806178

 

Trying to figure out how to post picts???

 

Tinypic.com

 

make an account with photobucket (its free)
upload the pics to their, and copy the IMG code (i think) and just post that here

 

 

 

not completely sure on the price
the block probably needs machine work, along with the heads
if the heads need to be milled, then so does the intake
3-6 hundred sounds around the zone to me