906 vs 452 heads on 440

By the time you get a 906 or a 452 set of iron heads ready to make 500 horsepower, with a mild cam (or a radical cam for that matter), you could have bought set of better aluminum heads. Well, unless you own a head porting shop.
I work in the machine shop where we build performance racing engines. . To get the heads to do what he wants will probably cost him about 2500. Clean and inspect them. Do a leak down. Hardened Seats new Bronze valve guides. Oversize stainless steel valves three angle valve job port polish and deck the head. If it’s not a numbers, matching engine I would just get a nice set of Indy, aluminum heads. That will save you about 80 to 100 pounds of weight they will flow better and they ard easier to work on.