Any advice on my 440 recipe?
With those pistons you will have approximately 8 to 1 with a steel shim head gasket. I have a set of these pistons and just measured them yesterday. It will work just right with that cam. Could you make more power with some 2355s, yes, but if these are new I'd run it with the Hughes cam. I'm very happy with my low compression 440. I do have a 9.5 to 1 440 and it does have a lot more, but my low compression one runs on 87 and drives very well too.
Lots of advance at idle and a quick curve is what you want. My made peak power on the dyno at 38 degrees total. I think I posted it on here a couple of years ago.