Mike. I know you said you were going to have the stacks sticking out of the hood but, one option I looked into when i thought about putting a big block in mine, before coming up with the turbo idea, was to use K member spacers to get the big block to fit under a stock hood a little more easily. You can find examples of that idea on big block forums and build your own if you wanted. just throwing an idea out there for ya. Good luck on a project car for your soon and good to hear he is doing well in the air force. Like one of the other guys said in that post. Im sure I will be fallowing that build thread too.