well, what if you had a lunchbreak meeting where you with some visual aids.. mockups of turbos, aluminum flex-heater hose, pictures and carefull explaining made him understand that a big block would empose some bad-compromise inducing space constraints.. you might even use a tape measure to get the point through... and sell hom on what ever you think is the right package... i mean you are the pro..
but a twin turbo big block.. it sure sounds cool when you say it out loud