Here's the not-so-official mock up:
Excuse the water everywhere but it looks quite promising.
I've found a few places selling tubing that would actually just plop into place so I may just do that although moving the blower up might be cooler too.
It looks promising, the adapter is on its way and I'll be buying a blower tomorrow and the front cover.
What's cool about the adapter is it will work perfect as a template to drill the big steel chunk so I can just bolt it down and not worry about the angled bolt holes that would almost require a machinist to do.
By running an 8v92/71 I should bridge some of that gap (11" from the front of that plate to the crank balancer flange lol) they offer up to an 8" long snout so I should be able to make this work.
Meanwhile my friend donated these to the cause haha
Needless to say, this is exciting.
Kind of tempted to find a 478 diesel or gas block/crank to make it that much more insane and also allow me to get started on the machine work.