IC2, Great pictures as usual! I was speaking relative to the stock firewall. If you do the weld-in-the-wheel-barrow routine I guess you can move the motor mounts back, maybe that is why the original firewall indent in my Bebops 'glass was so big and deep. I envy your nice headlight cables but I have four wires in mine due to the in-headlight turn signals and can barely squeeze them through the cheezier stock type flex tubes. How many wires did you thread through those cables? My only regret with a SBC is that GM may not exist much longer but there are still a lot of SBC parts out there. Maybe here is the place to offer my 4" Merc stroker crank for $400 or about half the price of a new one from Speedway. You will have to pay shipping but I will box it up in 2"x4" lumber. It comes with Merc rods and a Merc flywheel which could be chopped. Now all you have to do is find a useable flathead block.

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder