You could always cut up the firewall and set the engine farther back to help out the weight balance. That 472 BB Cadillac is actually pretty light. If you throw an aluminum intake in it, it is only 50 lbs heavier than an all iron sbc, or so I've read.
Why don't you make your own front subframe using a c4 corvette K member & suspension components? I just picked up a whole c4 frame for 850 bucks.
Yes all us engineers are pretentious, or that's what the shop guys at work like to think of us as.
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