A833 OD or 727 behind a 440. Suggestions and questions

I don't think you can use a 10 inch FW on a big block.

I'd use the stick. I always use the stick.
You young 39 year olds can still handle those stick shifts for daily drivers, but us old men like an automatic. I just don't like that stuff they put inside of them automatic it gets all over me and the floor and everything I own and I hate it and I don't use the word hate much.