I have a 69 warranty 440/4 that came with 6bbl rods.
@saforwardlook Just curious, you said restored, The shaker is yellow, the rear bumper is a painted bumper and the interior door panels are for a gran coupe. Was your car originally a BP car and just had a few liberties taken? Probably an N code?
My car was an original 33K mile Cuda with its original numbers matching 6 pack engine in it and its original VIN was still in place verifying its original 6 pack status. You are correct, as the shaker bubble was normally argent silver but I preferred yellow to more easily keep it looking clean. The problem with the car is it was missing its body code plate so I just built it as I would have optioned it if I could have since the missing body code plate (and no build sheet either) made the car substantially less valuable so I just took the liberties. I put in the overhead console, the leather bucket seats/Gran Coupe door panels, etc. and other upgrades such as the Elastometric rubber coated bumpers as I would have wanted if I had ordered the car. I am not heavily into E bodies like I am into C bodies so I decided to do this one differently.
The car was originally B5 blue as best I can discern and had a white vinyl top and bucket seat interior and bereft of any options. It was damn fast, but otherwise it rides badly, is noisy, handles not that well, bucket seats are not comfortable (has the 6 way manual ones too). Rather than use the word "restored" I should have said "made it like new".............
When most folks come to visit my place though, they tend to gravitate to that car as their favorite............especially the younger ones as like I was when I first acquired the car - as I said, it was a very long time ago now...............
I will ask my engine rebuilder about his experience with the 440 6 pack engines - he is the most acclaimed engine rebuilder in Southern California and his clients maintain as he does that none of his 440HP rebuilds has ever failed on the dragstrips or anywhere else and these are guys that have done well into the hundreds of passes at those strips. He refuses to hire any employees since he claims he can't fully trust them to make sure every bearing clearance is properly checked , etc. He has a wealth of original Mopar parts and prefers them to any reproductions except a very few others. He engine dynos every engine he rebuilds under load and even goes WOT during the break-in process and none has ever failed, and he guarantees they will not fail unless run out of oil or something really stupid. He also tells me if he gets ready to go to bed some nights and he recalls he left a tool he was using that day out of the proper place in his tool boxes, he has to go back to the shop and put it away before he can go to sleep. His shop is amazing. So that is the kind of guy I want doing my engines in the future.
I have had other racing engine rebuilders do some rebuilds and I have had some undesirable experiences so I just don't trust most shops anymore. This guy gets all my business for some time now.