My 572 doesn’t fit!

[Extended Power]

If only I would have left it a stock 572....but nooooooo....I gotta jack around, and try to make more power....(Extended Power)

So after almost two years of ordering parts, and hitting stumbling blocks at every purchase for this thing, I finally get it hoisted into the engine bay to fit it into its final resting place. Only the engine had a completely different idea.

Lowering it in, the passenger side valve cover hits the heater box, AND the fire wall....and looking at the engine mounts, it says it still has to go back another inch....NOT gonna happen.

The heater box can be taken out, and go with Vintage Air afterwards, but I have no idea what engine mounts I can use that will bring the engine forward enough to clear everything.

The reason it’s too big:
Sold the stock GM Performance heads, and went with AFR 335v2.
So already, it’s a tall deck, with taller heads.
Then with the cam I went with, I installed a stud girdle....with which the stock 572 valve covers don’t clear...
So I had to purchase a set of spacers...which equals more height/width.

I could pull the girdles off, and the spacers, then change the rocker arm nuts to shorter ones, and redo the valve lash....again. (Mechanical roller)
I don’t really want to do this, as I want the added strength and reliability from the girdles.

Who else has fought with fitting a tall deck BBC into these trucks?

I’m ready to sell this damn thing already.