Any advice on my 440 recipe?
Huh? Any cam under 225 @ 050 will be fine [ agree 100% ], but the Hughes cam the OP has picked is 232 @ 050.....& it will be fine?
People seem to forget [ or never knew ] an important engineering principle when picking cams: the rod/stroke ratio & how it affects the engine air flow.
This warning is in the Sig Erson Cam catalog. The BB Chr section is the only engine that has the warning & it is because of the large r/s ratio:
"When ordering a cam to be used in a std pass car chassis with TF trans, beware of too much duration. Although the longer duration cam will make more HP, the loss of tq at low rpm will more than offset the gain at the top end & the ET will suffer."
I know from personal experience how true that is....